CHAPTER 2 Fonts, Punctuation, and Spacing
CODE IS USUALLY set in a monospace font. After more than a century of manual typewriters and decades of punchcards, we find that it is actually easier to read code in a monospace font than a proportional font. Punctuation marks get the same spacing as a letter in a monospace font, but would be lost in a proportional font.
2.1 Typography and Code
Your brain and eyes do not follow code the same way that they follow text, process mathematics, read maps, or look at pictures. In fact, there are a lot of individual differences in human brains.
Some people like text editors that use colors for various syntax elements in a programming language. Other people get headaches from colored program editors and want ...
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