Good monospace font for code in LaTeX?

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I'm currently working on my dissertation and am using Palatino for text with the Euler font for mathematics. As part of my work I'll be presenting quite a few code examples, and was wondering if someone could suggest a good monospace font to go with them. As an alternative I was thinking of using the Concrete Roman and Euler font package (ala Knuth's Concrete Mathematics).

Have a look at http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/18715/suggestions-for-typewriter-font-to-match-concrete-and-euler — lockstep, Apr 05 '12 at 05:53
Welcome to TeX.SE. I removed 'thanks' from your post since we omit this. Instead, you should up-vote and accept the answers, giving the answerer the forum reputation. — yo', Apr 05 '12 at 07:04
Do you really need a monospace font? Try using a reduced size of Palatino: I find that this often works well, especially if you use the flexible column formatting of the listings package to maintain column alignment (if needed). Palatino Sans might also be a very nice option (if you use XeLaTeX). — mforbes, Apr 05 '12 at 07:31
See http://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/51/what-font-types-are-good-for-a-technical-document — Martin Schröder, Apr 05 '12 at 14:01

score 34 · Answer 1 · edited Sep 12 '13 at 15:02

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Inconsolata might be a choice. There is also a package for TeX support.

It is a font "designed for code listings and the like, in print," posing itself as a better alternative since many other fonts are designed for screen and not for the high resolutions in print.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{inconsolata}
\begin{document}
\texttt{This is Inconsolata.}
\end{document}

As seen it replaces the \tt, but this behavior can be changed.

edited Sep 12 '13 at 15:02

Nicolas Dudebout

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answered Apr 05 '12 at 07:08

Henrik Hansen

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It's a nice font, but I find slightly disturbing the fact that the " is slanted to the right... It looks weird when surrounding a string. – antoine Oct 14 '15 at 00:31
On Windows with TexWorks, you must install the font separately on the machine. Otherwise, this sample is producing an AccessViolation crash in miktex-ttf2pk.exe. I reported the crash here : https://github.com/MiKTeX/miktex/issues/513 – Kevin Coulombe Apr 26 '20 at 15:11
To get upright quotes in a \verb (but not in \texttt) you can use the varqu option: \usepackage[varqu]{inconsolata}. To get them everywhere you need to specify the "stylistic set": \setmonofont[StylisticSet=3]{Inconsolatazi4}. – TheBamf Jan 04 '23 at 11:53

score 16 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:35

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I personally think that Knuth's typewriter fonts are still very good, an alternative is charter and bera mono if you can get them.

 \usepackage[charter]{mathdesign}
 \def\rmdefault{bch} % not scaled
 \def\ttdefault{blg}

Also check Different approach to literate programming for LaTeX for some typesetting settings for listings.

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:35

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answered Apr 05 '12 at 06:00

yannisl

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If blg is a monospaced font, shouldn't \texttt{....................}\par \texttt{xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.} produce two equally wide lines? – Steven B. Segletes Jul 26 '16 at 14:12
@StevenB.Segletes Not for punctuation against letters. – yannisl Jul 26 '16 at 15:38
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Even \texttt{mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm}\par \texttt{xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx} is not equal width, where punctuation is not involved. – Steven B. Segletes Jul 26 '16 at 16:26
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@StevenB.Segletes its only monospaced between mindnight and 2 am. Also the wind has to come from west – BlueWizard Nov 30 '16 at 12:44

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