Thanks… I actually got the idea to start using proportional typefaces from a comment that you made.

Another thing that I tried was to extract each font variant into a separate file, and then to force VS to use those explicitly for different code element types, but that didn't work.

Cool. You might want to try a san serif font; serif fonts aren't really in fashion right now :)

It's funny, but for me languages have typographic affinities. Of the ones that I regularly use:, F# feels like it should be Garamond, C# and JavaScript feel fine in pretty much any monospace sans serif typeface, and VB is most congruent with "fun" typefaces like comic sans (I don't mean that as a dig).

Hey, you're actually the author of these articles! I remember seeing them before.

Got an RSS feed to make it easy to keep up with your articles?