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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?
I like the idea. Some thoughts: - Center the code samples on the page. So that your not unintentionally one over the other due to differences in viewing angle and vision ability. - Make all the fonts equal in height regardless of font point. Knee jerk reaction will be to go with the font that is closest to a persons normal preference. - Hide Font names and size/points. - Light theme and other color options. - Other p…
- Allow line-height adjustment.
- Add Lucida Console (still my favorite coding font at 8 px cap height). :)
Many "good" fonts are no longer hinted to fit to the raster grid, it is just assumed that you are using AA, period. What happens in that circumstance, is that the unhinted font looks really misshapen. Because of this in Firefox I de-select "Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of your selections above" and use instead a font that was designed to work well without AA (for the web, I like using Verdana).
So, for an editor's font, the best ones are bitmapped raster fonts for that pixel-perfect sharpness.
You can also use a TTF/OTF font with embedded bitmaps at specific sizes.
Regular TTF will work well also, if it is old enough that it contains hinting instructions. E.g. Bitstream Vera Sans is a monospaced font that is properly hinted for a pixel grid.
Seems to only feature free fonts available from Google Fonts (understandable). My personal favorites are the non-free ones: Apple's Monaco and Microsoft's Consolas.
I like the idea. Some thoughts: - Center the code samples on the page. So that your not unintentionally one over the other due to differences in viewing angle and vision ability. - Make all the fonts equal in height regardless of font point. Knee jerk reaction will be to go with the font that is closest to a persons normal preference. - Hide Font names and size/points. - Light theme and other color options. - Other p…
I like the current scheme which keeps the line height or px equal I'm guessing. So this should be a toggle-able option.
Another feature request: It'd be nice to compare the overall width of each font in terms of having 80 or 100 or 120 character limits on width. I'm always wondering what font is the best for viewing two files side-by-side on a 1280x800 display.
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Also samples with: - ligatures - italics
I came here to say exactly this. Ligatures make a -huge- difference to me, please offer some example text that makes use of them. Also, please make it an option to hide the font names so that it is a true blind comparison. Awesome idea, though!
Try it out!
Nice! Suggestions: -- make the individual fonts compete more times in randomized comparisons (one font should not win over a single other) -- option to overlap the renderings in a canvas with bitmap difference (to highlight the differences in glyphs) -- option to choose the text to be rendered, with syntax highlighting -- upload fonts for further comparison (maybe through @font-face src URLs); edit the list of compar…
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.