What are the best fonts for numeric data entry? [closed]

Question

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.

Answer 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.

Answer 2

My favorite is Consolas

Answer 3

courier/courier new also looks better.

Answer 4

anything monospace will be fine.

Answer 5

Agreed on monospace but let the USER choose which one and the size - you have to set one by default

Answer 6

I'm a fan of Lucida Console or PT Mono.