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

#191

Fun game, my compliments to the creators.. there is one variable for me that makes it more difficult. Anti-aliasing. I turn it off on my display because I like sharp crisp fonts without blurred edges--and in fact, the higher resolution your display is, the less you need AA. 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 circumst…

I'm using a bitmapped font called Terminus these days. Do you know of any other good ones for coding?

Take a look at the selection here: https://github.com/Tecate/bitmap-fonts

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

#192
Nice idea, thanks wentin!

Would be nice to allow user to paste in arbitrary code text, to reflect more typical code they're used to seeing (and get it to display ligatures, if applicable). Or possibly allow user to specify a source file from GitHub/GitLab to display.

Is this open source?

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

#193
Thanks for this! I was unaware of B612. It looks like I have a new coding font.

> About B612 Mono

B612 is an highly legible open source font family, designed and tested to be used on aircraft cockpit screens. Its design makes it particularly suitable for degraded contexts (ensuring legibility and readability of data), with a positive effect on reducing visual fatigue and cognitive load. Particular attention was given to the uniformity of the typeface, whether being used for isolated terms, reading information on a map, mixing capital letters and numbers, waypoint lists, long or abbreviated texts...

> In 2010, Airbus initiated a research collaboration with ENAC and Université de Toulouse III on a prospective study to define and validate an “Aeronautical Font”: the challenge was to improve the display of textual data information on all cockpit screens, concerning more specifically legibility, readability and reading comfort...

https://fonts.google.com/specimen/B612+Mono#about

To me it looks like the designers achieved their goals. Best to play this game after eight or ten hours' coding.

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

#194

would be good to add a light theme. i can't use dark themes because of astigmatism, so it's good for accessibility. nice idea so far. fwiw i've tried so many fonts and nothing beats andale mono for me on macos. i always come back to it. fantasque sans mono on windows is nice too, i think its on google fonts.

+1 Andale Mono, which isn't here.

Played through the game (on MacOS), came here to ask if we could add a custom font into the game so I could put Andale Mono there.

Fantasque Sans Mono on Github sends to:

https://fontlibrary.org/en/font/fantasque-sans-mono

Andale Mono is bundled with MacOS, and for Windows is here:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/mscorefonts/files/MS%20Core...

And for Linux, here:

http://mscorefonts2.sourceforge.net

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

#195
Site has issue, I was to choose PT Mono or cousine while Cousine was in fact PT Mono as well (said so in the code, only the header and buttons to choose said Cousine). Same for Fira Mono against Source Code Pro. That's 2 times in 15 tries, on safari mobile.

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

#196

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…

Also consider hiding the font names. Too much bias from certain familiar keywords (JetBrains, IBM, courier, etc.).

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

#197
This is also valuable for other things than fonts designed for programmers.

It would be nice if there were different set of fonts so that writers could also use it.

Also this concept of tournament can not only be generalised to other types of fonts, it can be generalised to different things entirely as well. Really like the idea!

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

#198

Thanks for this! I was unaware of B612. It looks like I have a new coding font. > About B612 Mono B612 is an highly legible open source font family, designed and tested to be used on aircraft cockpit screens. Its design makes it particularly suitable for degraded contexts (ensuring legibility and readability of data), with a positive effect on reducing visual fatigue and cognitive load. Particular attention was given…

I really liked B612, but I couldn't take the tiny colons and semicolons. If they were normally sized, this would be the perfect font.
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