I have to add my love for Liberation Mono.  <a href="https://fedorahosted.org/liberation-fonts/" rel="nofollow">https://fedorahosted.org/liberation-fonts/</a>  Releases: <a href="https://fedorahosted.org/releases/l/i/liberation-fonts/" rel="nofollow">https://fedorahosted.org/releases/l/i/liberation-fonts/</a><p>I recently had one of those "time to tweak my environment" days where I spent the entire day trying out monospaced fonts (DejaVu Sans Mono, Bitstream Vera Sans Mono, Envy, Terminus... everything I could find) in various color schemes in multiple editors (Win).  I've now pretty much set any program where I need a monospace font to Liberation Mono 10pt.<p>However, I think Consolas looks better if I'm trying to fit more onto the screen.  It looks better at smaller sizes than Liberation.<p>So I've settled on using 2 editors most the time with pretty similar features (Notepad++ &#38; Programmer's Notepad), one loaded with Liberation Mono, the other with Consolas for files where I'd like to squeeze more lines in and keep decent readability.<p>Maybe there's a better way of doing things, but I like having two sorta different workspaces that I can quickly open.