Re: Re: What font/size do you use for programming?

On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 5:29 PM, Philip Thompson <philthathril@gmail.com> wrote: > On Jul 10, 2008, at 3:35 PM, Omar Noppe wrote: > >> Is there any reason to pick a black background en white fonts in your >> editor (for example writability)? > > I think a black background is much easier on the eyes.... I use a big font on a black background because it doesn't strain my eyes as much. I started out with Monaco 9pt (or bitstream vera sans mono 9pt on linux) on white. Slowly though I kept getting more frequent headaches. Now I use black with big fonts and I'm fine. I have really good vision and all that, but just hours of coding will get to me. As a side bonus, using a bigger font also helps me adhere to wrapping at the 80 character margin too.