What are the best fonts for numeric data entry?
Solution 1
I'd probably go sans serif monospace.
What other fonts are you using for the rest of the application? If the answer is "Arial", "Arial Monospace" is probably the matching font for the numbers.
Solution 2
My favorite is Consolas
Solution 3
courier/courier new also looks better.
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Updated on June 04, 2022Comments
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Amish Programmer about 2 years
I'm creating a GUI application that requires the user to provide lots of numeric data. What is the best font to display the user's data? I assume that a mono-spaced font would be better in this case, as multiple lines will have the same number of characters.
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Sergey Brill over 14 yearsBut 0's and 6's look very similar in Arial.
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Dean J over 14 yearsHere's a monospace Arial variant: tinyurl.com/yj49u7v Not very similar to my eye, although glad to know it's a problem for some.
