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

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Post by geraltofrivia »

I love it!

A feedback: The use case is less than ideal. Its CSS. That shouldn't be a problem but its (i) its not the kind of syntax I'm used to reading, and (ii) its not a ligature heavy use case.

As an instance, I'm given a choice between Fira Code and Fira Mono. First off, er... maybe don't put them together. Second, the only difference between the two, as far as I can remember is that one has ligatures enabled, one doesn't. And the CSS codebase I'm reading doesn't seem to have any ligatures, so :shrug:

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

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Post by giomasce »

Razengan wrote: post #18

Can I get that annoying Product Hunt floater out of the way

Ctrl+Shift+C, click it and Del.

(my wife was very happy when I taught her this trick, though at first she was scared she might permanently damage the website; I mean, that it would remove the block also for the other visitors)

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

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Post by arp242 »

js4ever wrote: post #12

I'm nearly blind when it's about fonts, I nearly don't notice any difference between all of them and mostly I don't care. Am I the only one in that situation?

I've been using Deja-Vu (and Bitstream fonts before that) for as long as I can remember, as it's more or less the default, and it seems just as good of a font as any.

I also just use the default Vim colourscheme, which also seems a rarity.

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

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Post by xvedejas »

js4ever wrote: post #12

I'm nearly blind when it's about fonts, I nearly don't notice any difference between all of them and mostly I don't care. Am I the only one in that situation?

You have to really nit-pick to tell some of them apart, for sure. I had to go by things like "these proportions look maybe 4% closer to what I think is reasonable" to end up with Noto Sans Mono over Cousine.

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

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Post by warpech »

Great idea. However, I think that it misses the educational part. Choosing a font should be preceded by learning certain characteristics of fonts that help to read code.

For example, the font Input[1] might not be the most aesthetically pleasing, but it is one of the very few non-monospace developer fonts. The website of this font explains the idea behind it in a way that convinced me.

Maybe it could be done by using a wizard/tutorial to narrow down the fonts list.

[1] https://djr.com/input

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