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Re: Show HN: Coding Font – A game to find your favorite coding font

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Post by WithinReason »

k4rli wrote: post #4

Would be cool if it was possible to run it as a blind tournament to avoid subconsciously choosing my current font (although it's still possible to just recognize it). I ended up with my current IDE font (Fira Code) winning. Could be that I just prefer this font or I'd accidentally gone with a familiar option.

That's my favorite font as well, next to Iosevka which was missing from the fonts listed.

My main reason for liking both is ligatures support, which the website failed to show off.

Re: Show HN: Coding Font – A game to find your favorite coding font

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Post by abestic9 »

Awesome concept, I heavily factored in the different widths and glyph variations (like O, 0). I was surprised to get Overpass Mono, I would've never considered it otherwise. A couple of suggestions:

- Allow editing and preserve the user's content or at least the ability to select a language. CSS doesn't display a lot of the nuances present in other languages, and some people simply use monospaced for other kinds of writing. Though I appreciate this may add a requirement for a syntax formatting library.

- Add Iosevka and Cascadia Code fonts, among probably many others that will be suggested here. Better yet, add the ability for a user to set a custom font source URL and change it to a blind test!

- Themes, pretty self explanatory.

Re: Show HN: Coding Font – A game to find your favorite coding font

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Post by nisegami »

WillKirkby wrote: post #3

Bug report: on Chrome 95 / Windows, fullscreened on a 1080p display, the data-testid="RetoolGrid:container_question" element gets a dynamically-calculated translate3d transform that's not pixel-aligned, making all the text in the code regions extremely blurry.

Thanks, wasn't sure if it was just me. Trying it again on Firefox.

Edit: Win 10, Chrome 95 maximized on 1600x900

Edit 2: Surprisingly, the font that won when I ran it on Chrome was #2 when I tried it again on Firefox (I tried not to look at the names as much as possible to avoid this).

Re: Show HN: Coding Font – A game to find your favorite coding font

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Post by simse »

k4rli wrote: post #4

Would be cool if it was possible to run it as a blind tournament to avoid subconsciously choosing my current font (although it's still possible to just recognize it). I ended up with my current IDE font (Fira Code) winning. Could be that I just prefer this font or I'd accidentally gone with a familiar option.

Yeah that'd be super cool, I also ended picking the one I already use.

Re: Show HN: Coding Font – A game to find your favorite coding font

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Post by _hao »

I like the idea, but CSS is not indicative of my main language use (C++/C#), so it's a bit hard to decide a winner in some cases. I'd like the option to either choose a language and/or the ability to paste my own code.

EDIT: I've been with Inconsolata for a few years, but maybe a new contender can appear :)

Re: Show HN: Coding Font – A game to find your favorite coding font

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Post by giomasce »

_hao wrote: post #16

I like the idea, but CSS is not indicative of my main language use (C++/C#), so it's a bit hard to decide a winner in some cases. I'd like the option to either choose a language and/or the ability to paste my own code. EDIT: I've been with Inconsolata for a few years, but maybe a new contender can appear :)

Agree. One of the features of my current choice (Fira Code, but I've been with Inconsolata for a lot of time) is that it has ligatures for common groups like "!=" or "<<=", and CSS doesn't have them.

Re: Show HN: Coding Font – A game to find your favorite coding font

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Post by lampe3 »

I really like the idea.

Somethings I would like to have:

- The "editor" windows should be bigger

- Remove the left side

- Let me choose the language

- Give an option for a blind test. Basically don't let me see the font name.

- Option to give me only fonts with Ligatures.

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