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

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Post by wentin »

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…

I am going through the suggestion list and implementing them. The blind mode is just added!

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

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Post by DiabloD3 »

I turned on Blind Mode, and went through it, and ended up choosing Source Code Pro... a font I used for years because of how readable it is. I've since switched to Iosevka, which can both mimic almost every popular glyph shape (including being a synthetic Source Code Pro), but also is less wide and is on its way to conquering Unicode.

I suggest everyone just switch to Iosevka, you can thank me later.

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

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Post by praash »

timw4mail wrote: post #67

I like the idea, but fonts are hard to choose from, especially with a specimen as regular as a CSS file. If I had to pick a file type with variety, I might go for PHP, with inline HTML, CSS, and Javascript, and attempt to show all the symbols on the keyboard, as well as common ligatures. That said, there's so much variety in fonts that someone's favorite is likely missing regardless of the selection. Perhaps an initi…

The CSS example has barely any capital letters.

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

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Post by rozab »

I had fun with this. If I may offer a critique: the 'Visit Site' button just hijacks mouseclick instead of actually being a link, meaning I couldn't see where it was taking me by hovering. And when I actually clicked it, it brought me to the Google Fonts page instead of the actual website for the font. It was the same for every font I tried.

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

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Post by INTPenis »

wentin wrote: post #151
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 :)

Gotta say I love this, I came in just as you had blind tournament mode implemented and it worked great.

But I'd also like to skip certain battles and save them for later. Like right now I'm down to 10 fonts and I just can't decide. I'd like to skip to the next battle.

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

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Post by azinman2 »

Really cool project. Love it. Would like to be able to also test against system fonts, like the SF Mono, Monaco, etc. As an Apple user, those are not only on my system, but are very well professionally designed (and no need for a web font!). So it would be great to throw them into the mix. I imagine Windows users would want similar with the Microsoft fonts.
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