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Besides that, it would be great if you could hide the names as well, or set some placeholder name. I feel like I might be biased towards my existing font, because after the tournament I ended up with what I use as a daily driver, but maybe there is some unconscious bias that I don't realize, that's why it won.
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…
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?
Why not make the font size and color the same between the two panels? Hard to compare as they are different for some fonts...
Bug report: on Chrome 95 / Windows, fullscreened on a 1080p display, the data-testid="RetoolGrid:container_question" element gets a dynamically-calculated translate3d transform that's not pixel-aligned, making all the text in the code regions extremely blurry.
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 the user (or all of them, ranked)
I'm not a fan of ligatures so I'd want to eliminate them entirely or see such things in the code sample shown so that I can choose/disallow it.
Because it's for IDEs, make good use of the screen real estate, maybe that 'about' section on the left could go on the bottom, giving the side-by-side comparison more space to view all the code.
The 'Visit Site' link could be a normal hyperlink, my browser is blocking the popup that it creates currently. All that needs to be is an with a target="_blank".
Finally for mobiles I think hide that 'product hunt' badge, it's getting in the way of the buttons.
There should an option to hide names of what font it is.
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.