Switching to Consolas

This week I made the switch from Courier to Consolas, the new monospace font from Microsoft that utilizes ClearType rendering to provide improved on-screen readability. I am now using the font in my e-mail client (Thunderbird/Apple Mail), lab notebook (Journler), and text editor (TextPad/BBEdit). One major benefit to switching is that it renders well on both the Mac and the PC, whereas Courier only looks good on the Mac platform. Courier New looks great on the PC but is too thin on the Mac. Consolas also has better support for international characters, which is helpful when using Greek characters in my lab notebook.