It's hard to beat Consolas, although the rendering system seems to really matter a lot.
I've made my own pixel font, inspired from ProFont, but it's not usable because it's a pixel font, and it's too big when I zoom it 2x.
Show HN: Coding Font – A game to find your favorite coding font
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#52Fails without Monaco as an option. ;-) I wound up with Inconsolata, which I see now looks a lot like it.
Monaco 9 takes me back to coding for Macintosh System 6. Inconsolata is my daily driver.
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#53Major Mono Display for the WIN!
That was actually nicely done. I'll play it more seriously later.
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#54I like the idea, but CSS is not indicative of my main language use (C++/C#), so it's a bit hard to decide a winner in some cases. I'd like the option to either choose a language and/or the ability to paste my own code. EDIT: I've been with Inconsolata for a few years, but maybe a new contender can appear :)
>paste my own code
This. The 'lorem ipsum' CSS provided wasn't too bad, but that's not my brace style and I found it jarring, waah D:
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#55love this and the input tool others are mentioning. i never knew how to best select a font for my terminals because looking at 20 fonts in font book side by side makes it hard for me to even tell WHAT i like. im excited to try this and input.
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#56This is pretty fun, although I knew going in that I would most likely end up choosing Fira Code as I tried many over the years...
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#57The list could have been a bit bigger as I see that three of my favorites aren't even there.
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#58Why not make the font size and color the same between the two panels? Hard to compare as they are different for some fonts...
This is much harder than it sounds, since font-size: 16px for one font is not going to be the same, visually, as font-size: 16px for another font. Inconsolata, for example, is much smaller than DM Mono, but they're both displayed at 16px.
I remember that there is something like https://seek-oss.github.io/capsize/ , not sure if it could work here.
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#59Excellent. This light-mode holdout wishes for a white-background tournament.
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#60One of my main selection criteria for a coding/terminal font is subjective quality of rendering and legibility at small sizes. The preview has an adjustable point size option but that isn't the whole story. The space taken up when rendered is what's important (i.e. pixel height of Em/line and/or the width of 80 monospaced characters.) Edit: A simple solution is to allow independent setting of Point size for the left and right previews so they can be visually the same size, rather than the same stated Pt.no.
Also missing one of my go-tos "Input Mono"[0]. What's great about it is that it comes with so many custom choices that you can configure specific character shapes and choose a width/weight that renders well for your particular use case.