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

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Post by a_e_k »

hawkesnest wrote: post #101
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.

When I developed my own coding font (Luculent), the compact sample that I ultimately came up with was:

    //  The five boxing wizards jump
    #include  // k+=*w";
    }
It has a pangram, lots of confusable pairs of characters adjacent to each other, opening brackets next to each other and near a pipe character, quotes and commas next to each other, lining operators (i.e., ->, += and <=), and every normal punctuation character on a US keyboard. It also happens to be a valid, though useless, C or C++ program.

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

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Post by arnsholt »

Osiris wrote: post #103
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.

There are dozens of us I tell you, dozens! In my case I saw the light after two years of programming in SmallTalk, where our dev images shipped with Cambria by default.

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

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Post by Fwirt »

a_e_k wrote: post #131
hawkesnest wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

When I developed my own coding font (Luculent), the compact sample that I ultimately came up with was: // The five boxing wizards jump #include // k+=*w"; } It has a pangram, lots of confusable pairs of characters adjacent to each other, opening brackets next to each other and near a pipe character, quotes and commas next to each other, lining operators (i.e., ->, += and <=), and every normal punctuation character on…

Thanks for the name drop! Luculent looks like a nice font that checks all the boxes. I'd like to see it added to this project as well.

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

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Post by mattmoss »

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.

I currently use Fira Code, and I tried to focus on the text comparisons without consideration of the font names.

I ended up picking Noto Sans Mono by a very slim margin over Fira Code. Interesting...

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

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Post by GordonS »

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…

Another idea is to synchronise scrolling within the code samples, so if I scroll in one, the other automatically scrolls to the same line.
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