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Re: CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font

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Post by regus » Mon, Mar 30, 2026, 4:12 PM UTC

As I get older I prefer the text on my screen to be bigger than usual. Most websites tend to have super small fonts for some reason.

For coding I much prefer fonts that are bold and easier to read. Who actually likes these whimsical cursive looking comments or super thin looking fonts?

I ended up with "Roboto Mono" btw.

Re: CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font

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Post by delta_p_delta_x » Mon, Mar 30, 2026, 4:13 PM UTC

This kind of breaks for me because I identify all the familiar fonts quite quickly—Consolas, Inconsolata, Iosevka, JetBrains Mono, Fira Mono/Code, Menlo, SF Mono, Courier...

Re: CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font

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Post by aquir » Mon, Mar 30, 2026, 4:14 PM UTC

For me it's Berkeley Mono...I was unable to find anything that comes close to it. But this games is fun and the result is a font that is similar to my favourite

Re: CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font

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Post by Arn_Thor » Mon, Mar 30, 2026, 4:15 PM UTC

Roboto Mono, apparently

Re: CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font

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Post by wendy7756 » Mon, Mar 30, 2026, 4:17 PM UTC

This is interesting. I didn’t realize how much font choice affects readability until I switched between a few over time.

Re: CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font

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Post by nomsters » Mon, Mar 30, 2026, 4:18 PM UTC

JetBrains Mono. Makes sense

Re: CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font

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Post by vladde » Mon, Mar 30, 2026, 4:20 PM UTC

nvahalik wrote: post #10

sodimel wrote: post #7

My coding font is comic-shanns-mono, here's how it looks: https://github.com/jesusmgg/comic-shanns-mono?tab=readme-ov-...

I initially used this one when I started playing around with Zed on a personal project, but I kept it and it has grown on me considerably.

similar situation here, but i used it because i thought it was funny... then kept it because it grew on me haha. had it for a few years, might give it a spin again

Re: CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font

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Post by ranger_danger » Mon, Mar 30, 2026, 4:26 PM UTC

Fira Code for me.

Re: CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font

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Post by keithxm23 » Mon, Mar 30, 2026, 4:27 PM UTC

I'd love to see a page which tracked stats for what the majority of users were picking

Re: CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font

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Post by jeffbee » Mon, Mar 30, 2026, 4:30 PM UTC

genpfault wrote: post #5

Doesn't seem to serve rendered samples so you have to set "browser.display.use_document_fonts" to "1" to see anything useful.

Which is the default, and 99.9% of Firefox users, 99.99% of all users will not have this issue.