Great font for programming

Fonts for programming should be:

• monospaced;
• comfortable reading of extended text on-screen;
• unambiguous (character for numeric zero and the letter 'O', character for numeric one and the letter 'l')
  

Here's a great font designed for programming:

Consolas is intended for use in programming environments and other circumstances where a monospaced font is specified. All characters have the same width, like old typewriters, making it a good choice for personal and business correspondence. Optimizing the font specifically for ClearType allowed a design with proportions closer to normal text than traditional monospaced fonts like Courier. This allows for more comfortable reading of extended text on-screen.

The package will change the default text face in Visual Studio to the Consolas family.

This package is only intended for licensed users of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005.

read about it from Hammett - he also posted his fonts and colors settings.