Source Code is part of Adobe's recently released Source Sans Pro family and is a monospaced font that is integrated into Adobe Edge Code, part of the Adobe Edge suite for web developers.

When considering fonts "mono-spaced" and "stylish" are rarely found in combination. However, I think many will agree that Source Code, designed by Paul Hunt and downloadable from Sourceforge is attractive enough to change this situation:

On Typblography, Paul Hunt writes:

As a font developer, I spend a good chunk of each day coding in a text editor and reading output messages from a terminal window, so I can appreciate the importance of a good monospaced font. When the Brackets team reached out to us on the Adobe type team, asking if we could develop a coding font for their open source application, we thought it made sense to adapt Source Sans, which I was working on at the time. Personally, I felt that I could use this opportunity to create a coding font that I would want to use myself. Given the existing family name, I couldn’t resist the opportunity to name the monospaced variant designed for coding applications Source Code.

He also explains how he took care to differentiate potentially confusable characters:

He was also aware of characters with special meanings for programmers, commenting:

In coding, many of the characters we take for granted are more meaningful symbols in computer languages. To make these more legible, I increased the size of punctuation marks, and optimized the shapes of important characters like the greater- and less-than signs, and adjusted heights of dashes and mathematical symbols so that these align better with each other.