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Show HN: Coding Font – A game to find your favorite coding font
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Re: Show HN: Coding Font – A game to find your favorite coding font
#122Awesome 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 w…
I second Cascadia Code.
And, maybe I missed it, but there's no light mode or ability to change weights. Some weights are highly legible in light mode, but then illegible in dark mode—and vice versa.
Re: Show HN: Coding Font – A game to find your favorite coding font
#123Converged on IBM Plex Mono which I've used since it came out and Overpass Mono. After installing Overpass Mono in my editor it looked like crap haha. Not sure what happened.
Re: Show HN: Coding Font – A game to find your favorite coding font
#124I 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 samples with:
- ligatures
- italics
Re: Show HN: Coding Font – A game to find your favorite coding font
#125I 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 samples with: - ligatures - italics
I came here to say exactly this. Ligatures make a -huge- difference to me, please offer some example text that makes use of them.
Also, please make it an option to hide the font names so that it is a true blind comparison.
Awesome idea, though!
Re: Show HN: Coding Font – A game to find your favorite coding font
#126noto sans mono
Re: Show HN: Coding Font – A game to find your favorite coding font
#127No Iosevka?
Re: Show HN: Coding Font – A game to find your favorite coding font
#128Would 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.
Also ended up with Fira Code, which I already use. Would feel a little more satisfying if the whole thing was blinded A/B testing, but I'm fairly confident I do just prefer Fira Code over the others.
Re: Show HN: Coding Font – A game to find your favorite coding font
#129Missing the best fonts. Tamsyn7x14 on 1080p screens, and Iosevka Light on Retina/5k screens.
Re: Show HN: Coding Font – A game to find your favorite coding font
#130One thing I would add is a "reseed" button, that would reshuffle the current pairing and all remaining pairings in the current round, so that if two choices were quite similar, you could put off deciding between them unless/until both of them end up in the final round.