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

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Post by hawkesnest »

asciimov wrote: post #83

I like the idea. Some thoughts: - Center the code samples on the page. So that your not unintentionally one over the other due to differences in viewing angle and vision ability. - Make all the fonts equal in height regardless of font point. Knee jerk reaction will be to go with the font that is closest to a persons normal preference. - Hide Font names and size/points. - Light theme and other color options. - Other p…

> jiI1l0O test. I like to see those characters that can often be too similar in shape shown together.

This is a big one for me. None of the sample text had a capital O to compare to 0.

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

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Post by Osiris »

asciimov wrote: post #83

I like the idea. Some thoughts: - Center the code samples on the page. So that your not unintentionally one over the other due to differences in viewing angle and vision ability. - Make all the fonts equal in height regardless of font point. Knee jerk reaction will be to go with the font that is closest to a persons normal preference. - Hide Font names and size/points. - Light theme and other color options. - Other p…

Include proportional fonts.

I know I'm not the only one that uses one. Specially I use Input which has both mono and proportional versions and designed for programming.

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

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Post by thrownblown »

jmrm wrote: post #96
throwaway889900 wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nothing like some good ol' Comic Sans in the world's best IDE: Microsoft Word. Also all spaces are now Unicode spaces.

Did you heard about the 'Comic Mono' font? https://github.com/dtinth/comic-mono-font

I use "comic code" as my daily driver monospace font as it's good for dyslexia having unique characters for like "d" and "b" that aren't mirrored reflections.

I always get a comment on the font when I screenshare...

https://tosche.net/fonts/comic-code

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

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Post by b3morales »

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.

Interesting; I discarded the one I currently use in a matchup in the middle and ended up discovering a new one to try.

But I agree that it might be good to try it anonymized -- I was very impressed by the eventual winner when I saw it early on, and I remembered its name. I could feel myself slightly favoring it in later matches. Then again, maybe that's a reasonable part of the process -- this isn't really an objective judgement to be making in the first place.

Single elimination also isn't likely to produce the "one true" result, unless the initial pairings were very carefully chosen to partition the design space. (I think they were random, so the result is somewhat arbitrary.) Still a fun little exercise, though.

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

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Post by afandian »

Because of the bar and container there's 140 pixels wasted at the top that means I have to scroll to play the actual game. Plus the 'Product Hunt' thing overlaps the content and then the button I need to click on, so I have to scroll up and down.

If I bust the embedded content out of the iframe it works a little better though.

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

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Post by jordanpg »

asciimov wrote: post #83

I like the idea. Some thoughts: - Center the code samples on the page. So that your not unintentionally one over the other due to differences in viewing angle and vision ability. - Make all the fonts equal in height regardless of font point. Knee jerk reaction will be to go with the font that is closest to a persons normal preference. - Hide Font names and size/points. - Light theme and other color options. - Other p…

Also consider hiding the font names. Too much bias from certain familiar keywords (JetBrains, IBM, courier, etc.).
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