latexlistings
Listing style is normally used for source code listing, but to me the default font used is not so pretty for source code listing. Attached is a comparison between listing and verbatim.
http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/8906/screenshot20100717at115.png
It seems to me that what you really want, is to customize the look of the captions. This is most easily done using the caption package. For instructions how to use this package, see the manual (PDF). You would probably need to create your own custom caption format, as described in chapter 4 in the manual.
Edit: Tested with MikTex:
\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{color}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{listings}
\usepackage{caption}
\DeclareCaptionFont{white}{\color{white}}
\DeclareCaptionFormat{listing}{\colorbox{gray}{\parbox{\textwidth}{#1#2#3}}}
\captionsetup[lstlisting]{format=listing,labelfont=white,textfont=white}
% This concludes the preamble
\begin{document}
\begin{lstlisting}[label=some-code,caption=Some Code]
public void here() {
goes().the().code()
}
\end{lstlisting}
\end{document}
Result:
I found the solution thanks to the link in Vincent's answer.
\renewcommand{\familydefault}{\sfdefault}
This changes the default font family to sans-serif.
Best Answer
I agree the defaults of listings aren't that appealing. Usually I write something like
\lstset{columns=fullflexible,basicstyle=\ttfamily}You might also need to play around with the
identifierstyle,commentstyle, etc., keys if the style for your code uses these separately.The
columns=fullflexiblekeyval suppresses listings's layout thing that it does to make proportional-width text fit into a monospace grid; it's not necessary if you choose a monospace font to begin with.