Coding Font by Typogram – Find Your True Love of Coding Fonts
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#2Posting a thread about fonts on Hacker News, to me, is a version of nerd sniping (https://xkcd.com/356/)
It's one of those things that absolutely ruin my productivity and makes me reconsider all the fonts I use in my whole system.
Anyway - thanks for the link, love it.
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#3I never much cared for fonts and thought they're mostly the same. You, sir, proved me wrong. lets see if this convinces me to switch from fira code
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#4I wish I could replace the default text in use for the examples. I'd like to try a different set of text because with syntax highlighting etc it's a bit harder for me to pick one.
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#6I wish I could replace the default text in use for the examples. I'd like to try a different set of text because with syntax highlighting etc it's a bit harder for me to pick one.
Adding to this: Maybe allow to compare more custom fonts? IDK if it's possible but for the user to pass in a list of links to different fonts they want to try out
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#7I hid the font names and still ended up with my current go-to font (JetBrains mono). I’m not sure if that’s the effect of familiarity or if we are truly meant for each other.
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#8Some of these are absolutely cursed suggestions for coding, namely Xanh, Syne, and Major. I love it! I would definitely throw the Monaspace family in there if they’re properly licensed, I’m something of an evangelist. Also there’s a free version of Comic Sans Mono for coding floating around somewhere AFAIR?
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#9I love the idea, but the site seems to have ligatures turned on, which screws up the rendering for some of the fonts but not others.
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#10That's a really fantastic idea, but (yes, sorry ;) there are many fonts missing (I use Fantasque Sans Mono), the syntax highlighting theme should be customisable (at least a light theme) and the source's language should be changeable.
So I always end up using two browser windows of https://www.programmingfonts.org/ side-by-side for comparisons.