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

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

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 like that way more than i would have thought simply based on the name.

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

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Post by ale » Mon, Mar 30, 2026, 4:31 PM UTC

I stopped looking for fonts after I got comfortable tweaking the metric settings of Iosevka. My current setup exports a set of really compressed cuts (more compressed than Pragmata Pro) which I've always found hard to come by.

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

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Post by timeinput » Mon, Mar 30, 2026, 4:32 PM UTC

IBM Plex Mono -- I guess no one ever got fired for choosing IBM?

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

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Post by jeffbee » Mon, Mar 30, 2026, 4:33 PM UTC

askl wrote: post #6

Wow, some of these are looking atrocious. (Victor Mono, Syne Mono, Nova Mono) What I'm missing is DejaVuSansMono which is what I'm using. The result of the test was Ubuntu Mono, which looks okay too.

It is sort of baffling that people make some of these hideous fonts, look at them, and decide to publish them regardless. A font where the lowercase i and l are indistinguishable? Okay...

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

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Post by Surac » Mon, Mar 30, 2026, 4:35 PM UTC

Source Code Pro was my winner in this test. I use Iosevka on a regular base

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

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Post by croemer » Mon, Mar 30, 2026, 4:36 PM UTC

Played it twice to see if it's reproducible. First time, Fira Code; second time Source Code Pro. Source Code Pro came in second first time round as well. Been using Fira Code until now.

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

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Post by croemer » Mon, Mar 30, 2026, 4:37 PM UTC

JasonSage wrote: post #3

I enjoyed this, though my font preferences are pretty stable. It would be nice if it showed you 1st, 2nd, semi-finalist, quarter-finalist... It would also be nice to see progress of some kind, a few minutes in I was wondering if I was near completion or just getting started.

It does show you on the left. Just not on the certificate.

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

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Post by bensyverson » Mon, Mar 30, 2026, 4:37 PM UTC

Can we just talk about how good Source Code Pro is?

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

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Post by shagie » Mon, Mar 30, 2026, 4:40 PM UTC

jeffbee wrote: post #24

askl wrote: post #6

Wow, some of these are looking atrocious. (Victor Mono, Syne Mono, Nova Mono) What I'm missing is DejaVuSansMono which is what I'm using. The result of the test was Ubuntu Mono, which looks okay too.

It is sort of baffling that people make some of these hideous fonts, look at them, and decide to publish them regardless. A font where the lowercase i and l are indistinguishable? Okay...

I was amused that Dank Mono wasn't in the lineup (though there was one that had some of its aesthetics)

https://philpl.gumroad.com/l/dank-mono

The one use case I've seen for Dank Mono was presentations with an overhead projector at conferences. The cursive for italics can make some of the structure of the code more differentiated when viewing it at a distance.

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

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Post by nikitadotla » Mon, Mar 30, 2026, 4:41 PM UTC

Ubuntu Mono. I have been using JetBrains Mono for last 2 years and surprisingly I rejected it in a second iteration.