Syntax is a nice font for code; i first saw it in Oberon, though it predates Oberon.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntax_(typeface) > perhaps this article could be of interest to this discussion. it only > considers fixed-width fonts but is worth a look if you're looking for > better fonts: > > http://hivelogic.com/articles/top-10-programming-fonts > > I have not attempted to convert any of these fonts to rio/acme. If you > do I'd love to see the results posted here. > > Myself, I'm stuck with Monaco. Anti-aliased in the editor, aliased in > a terminal.