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

#91

My favorite coding font is liberation mono, but I wish I understand truetype well enough that I could make it substitute -> with a proper right-pointing arrow, and !=, >=, I've tried editing the font myself using fontforge, but without any luck...

Those are known as ligatures. Ligaturizer[0], which copies Fira Code’s ligatures into any font, may be of interest.

[0]: https://github.com/ToxicFrog/Ligaturizer

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

#92

Is it just me, or does it not appear to be working for anyone else? It just shows "You have chosen the winner" and none of the buttons seem to have an effect. Edit: Clicking 'Restart Tournament' seems to spawn a worker that pushes my CPU over 100%. Open source your code, perhaps?

This is the ultimate troll - your winning coding font is times new roman!

Nothing like some good ol' Comic Sans in the world's best IDE: Microsoft Word. Also all spaces are now Unicode spaces.

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

#93
post #90

Is it just me, or does it not appear to be working for anyone else? It just shows "You have chosen the winner" and none of the buttons seem to have an effect. Edit: Clicking 'Restart Tournament' seems to spawn a worker that pushes my CPU over 100%. Open source your code, perhaps?

Ouch: { "statusCode":400, "error":"Bad Request", "message":"{\"error\":{\"code\":429,\"message\":\"Quota exceeded for quota metric 'Queries' and limit 'Queries per day' of service 'webfonts.googleapis.com' for consumer 'project_number:524817652413'.\",\"errors\":[{\"message\":\"Quota exceeded for quota metric 'Queries' and limit 'Queries per day' of service 'webfonts.googleapis.com' for consumer 'project_number:52481…

I have offsite fonts blocked, so I wonder if I would have seen these anyways. From that response, it looks like it would just include a webfont directly from Google.

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

#94
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.

Any font can have ligatures now

https://github.com/ToxicFrog/Ligaturizer

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

#95
I am certain I have tried every fixed-width font in existence. It's this constant unsettled feeling to find the "right" one.

The font that seems to not make me want to try others is Recursive Mono (medium, casual). https://www.recursive.design/ Even I admit it looks a bit off at larger sizes but at say 15pt it's fantastic.

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

#96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is the ultimate troll - your winning coding font is times new roman!

Nothing like some good ol' Comic Sans in the world's best IDE: Microsoft Word. Also all spaces are now Unicode spaces.

Did you heard about the 'Comic Mono' font?

https://github.com/dtinth/comic-mono-font

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

#98

Is it just me, or does it not appear to be working for anyone else? It just shows "You have chosen the winner" and none of the buttons seem to have an effect. Edit: Clicking 'Restart Tournament' seems to spawn a worker that pushes my CPU over 100%. Open source your code, perhaps?

Sorry I went to sleep and woke to the app not working. Stupidly used Google Fonts API when I really don't have to, was being lazy. It is fixed now! Please try again?

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

#99
post #90

Is it just me, or does it not appear to be working for anyone else? It just shows "You have chosen the winner" and none of the buttons seem to have an effect. Edit: Clicking 'Restart Tournament' seems to spawn a worker that pushes my CPU over 100%. Open source your code, perhaps?

Ouch: { "statusCode":400, "error":"Bad Request", "message":"{\"error\":{\"code\":429,\"message\":\"Quota exceeded for quota metric 'Queries' and limit 'Queries per day' of service 'webfonts.googleapis.com' for consumer 'project_number:524817652413'.\",\"errors\":[{\"message\":\"Quota exceeded for quota metric 'Queries' and limit 'Queries per day' of service 'webfonts.googleapis.com' for consumer 'project_number:52481…

Yes, I hit the limit for Google Fonts API. It is fixed now. I moved off the API service. :)

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

#100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is the ultimate troll - your winning coding font is times new roman!

Nothing like some good ol' Comic Sans in the world's best IDE: Microsoft Word. Also all spaces are now Unicode spaces.

No joke: my 70-something IBM veteran C++ class teacher in high school used Comic Sans in Visual Studio. Every time he shared his screen on the projector me and my buddy chuckled. He was so literal that it was either really good dry humor, or the dude genuinely liked coding in Comic Sans.
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