Fixed Width Clear Type Font - Now Available Free

Download Consolas

Consolas is intended for use in programming environments and other circumstances where a monospaced font is specified. All characters have the same width, like old typewriters, making it a good choice for personal and business correspondence. Optimizing the font specifically for ClearType allowed a design with proportions closer to normal text than traditional monospaced fonts like Courier. This allows for more comfortable reading of extended text on-screen.

The download page says that only licensed users of Microsoft Visual Studio 2006 can install this. It works fine for me though ;-)