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Friday, February 02, 2007

Cool - you can download Microsoft's new programming font Consolas.

Dang. It's only for licensed users of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005.

By Anonymous, at 2/03/2007 10:12 a.m.
Really? I downloaded it and it didn't complain.

By Jonathan, at 2/03/2007 4:08 p.m.
Weird. I'm on up-to-date XP and it the setup installer gets to a certain point and then a window pops up stating "Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 must be installed prior to installing this package."

By Anonymous, at 2/03/2007 9:08 p.m.
Maybe it's because I installed the free Visual Studio Web Express Edition one day (since uninstalled).

By Jonathan, at 2/03/2007 10:55 p.m.
Ah, that did it. Thanks. Sweet font.

By Anonymous, at 2/04/2007 9:51 a.m.
Great!

By Jonathan, at 2/04/2007 7:52 p.m.
I can suggest another programming font: Triskweline.
Here there are other free font, Dina, Proggy, Terminus (sorry this page is in Italian... but the links are write in an universal language :) )
Bye
P.S. Good work for your blog!

By Anonymous, at 2/05/2007 2:53 a.m.
Levysoft - Triskeline is a great, nostalgic font. Reminds me of the font on my Apple IIc.

BTW, Inconsolata is a great monospaced font for Firefox! Looks good as I type into this text box.

By Jonathan, at 2/05/2007 8:18 p.m.
You can get all the Vista fonts here:
http://www.techtoolblog.com/archives/consolas-as-my-new-ide-font-for-visual-studio-2005

By Anonymous, at 2/06/2007 5:41 a.m.
Thanks Tim.

By Jonathan, at 2/06/2007 7:40 p.m.