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

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Post by timbit42 »

I wonder what capital letters looks like, and all the symbols. Should have at least the upper/lower characters, numbers and symbols listed at the top. Then some CSS code is OK but there should be perhaps some small samples of HTML, JavaScript, Python, Java/C#, and/or C/C++ in there.

More fonts besides Google Fonts would be nice.

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

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Post by karmakaze »

k4rli wrote: post #4

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.

It would also be neat if it identified any properties that were shared in many of your top picks. A higher than average x-height would probably be on my list.

One property that might make that list is whitespace between lines. This one is misleading though since it can be adjusted when rendering (in some IDEs) with leading.

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

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Post by akuji1993 »

k4rli wrote: post #4

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.

> I ended up with my current IDE font

Same for me, even the same font as for you, Fira. I just find it very clear and simple and it supports a great set of ligatures. A lot of other fonts I didn't like at all. So maybe I subconciously chose this, but I feel it's also just a reflection of my demands for a coding font.

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

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Post by akuji1993 »

WithinReason wrote: post #11
k4rli wrote: post #4

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.

That's my favorite font as well, next to Iosevka which was missing from the fonts listed. My main reason for liking both is ligatures support, which the website failed to show off.

Yeah the comparison is kinda incomplete without showing the ligature support of both fonts.

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

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Post by timw4mail »

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 initial culling based on features would help, eg. ligatures/no ligatures, serif/sans-serif, etc.

I'm also not really able to firmly decide, so I tend to switch fonts every so often.

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

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Post by rubyist5eva »

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).

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