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

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Post by wentin »

politelemon wrote: post #38

Nicely done, it's great to have a side by side comparison. It's made me realize I don't actually like the fonts I was using and I ended up on Roboto Mono, Ubuntu and Fira Mono. I'll echo what the other comments are saying - it'll be good to make it a blind tournament with some representative code samples from languages like C#, Python, TypeScript etc. At the end you could present the 'top 5' fonts that were chosen by…

For the blind tournament, I just implemented it! Give it a try :)

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

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Post by quaintdev »

jordanpg wrote: post #109
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.).

Please do this.

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

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Post by dejawu »

I really like this! And as someone who never cared a whole lot about what font I use while coding, I was genuinely going to use it to choose myself a font. I do, however, agree with a lot of the issues/feature requests in this thread - would you be willing to open-source it? I wouldn't mind helping to fix/implement those requests myself.

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

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Post by skneko »

quaintdev wrote: post #152
jordanpg wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Please do this.

There is a "blind mode" that hides the font names.

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

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Post by wentin »

rubyist5eva wrote: post #70

I spent months trying to find the specific font that: 1. I enjoyed looking at 2. Made discerning ambiguous characters when reading code easy. For example: l, 1, 0, O, Z, 2 I ended up creating my own custom build of Iosevka, now I can humble brag and have hipster cred that I have a font that is unique in the world (lol).

haha, I went even further. I designed a font called CSS Mono, and someone says it is like comic sans of coding fonts in Youtube comments, like in a bad way obviously. lol, check it out https://css-mono.wentin.net/

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

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Post by StevePerkins »

It would be nice to see the full bracket tree when you're done, rather than just the overall winner. There were other nice fonts that made it close to the end, that I would have liked to see identified, but I don't think this is possible in blind mode.
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