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Asked: 2026-05-18T20:18:51+00:00

I guess I’ve just gotten spoiled with Consolas working on my local development machine.

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I guess I’ve just gotten spoiled with Consolas working on my local development machine. But at work we do a lot of development remotely via Remote Desktop, where any fonts requiring ClearType look awful.

I mean, look at this:

Screenshot of Consolas font on Remote Desktop

Normally I’m not a big fan of Courier New, but in this scenario it beats Consolas, along with all the other otherwise great-looking programmer fonts I’ve found (which all seem to require ClearType or some other rendering effect that apparently isn’t available through Remote Desktop, at least from Windows XP) hands-down.

Can someone suggest any high-quality fonts suitable for programming that will still look good through Remote Desktop?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Follow this guide – perhaps it’s just a configuration issue:

    http://www.ytechie.com/2008/12/cleartype-in-remote-desktop-with-xp.html

    The above guide shows you how to do this for every windows OS supporting clear type.

    Dave

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