: Can anyone tell me what this font is or which is similar? Can anyone tell me what this font is or which is similar?

@Samaraweera207

Adding to the answer given by Ilan:


The "variation" Ilan mentions really is Menlo Bold (which - as I just realized after writing up all of this :/ - he wanted to fix this in this edit to his answer, but apparently something went wrong).
Furthermore, as Menlo is based upon Bitstream Vera Sans Mono and Deja Vu Sans Mono, let us take a look those, too:




Red: Menlo Bold; Cyan: Bitstream Vera Sans Mono Bold; Green: DejaVu Sans Mono Bold
- all at 50pt, set in Adobe Illustrator on Mac OS X

While the regular cuts of Menlo and DejaVu Sans Mono have a few more or less subtle differences (reference the screenshot and links below the horizontal rule), I could not make out any differences regarding the bold cuts and your reference text (I did not compare the whole character set).


If your reference image is from a website, you could use the developer tools in Chrome, Firefox, Safari or Internet Explorer to find out which font is used via the "Inspect Element" tool and looking at the font-family property in the "Computed Style"-panel.
As Yisela already pointed out, a quicker way is "WhatFont", a tool available as a bookmarklet and extension for Chrome and Safari.
If your reference is a high resolution image or a PDF with fonts converted to paths, you could compare the fonts yourself; ruling out Menlo should be rather easy if your source contains one of the characters where the differences are rather obvious - that is if you have access to Menlo: I (as others) could not find a download link (at least not to the bold cut) - it is however shipping with Mac OS X since Snow Leopard (10.6).
If your reference is a PDF with fonts embedded (though I doubt that), you can view a list of all fonts in Adobe Acrobat/Reader via File → Properties → Fonts.


Citing the Wikipedia article, DejaVu was created to "provide a wider range of characters... while maintaining the original look and feel through the process of collaborative development", so as far as I understand there should not be a difference regarding letter forms (image from here) in regards to Bitstream Vera.

A derivative of Menlo named "Meslo" which offers increased vertical line spacing and changes the alignment of the asterisk is available at github (and discussed here and here).



Here's a visual comparison of Menlo Regular and DejaVu Sans Mono Book (as found here):



Even more detailed comparisons (also to Bitstream Vera Sans Mono) can be found here, here and here.

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@Kaufman565

The font is variation of Menlo Regular Font

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@Jessie844

If this is on the web somewhere as copy (as opposed to in an image) you can use this handy tool:

FOUNT

It is a bookmarklet that you drag to your browser and it scan the dom for the font-family tags and help you identify a font.

This is a must have for anyone who wants to know on the fly what a page uses for fonts. A follow up tool would be the commented "What The Font" location from above.

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