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CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font

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

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Post by ale »

trinari wrote: post #31
ale wrote: post #22

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.

now i'm curious. care to share you're settings?

Sure. The glyph replacements match the "plain" style of SF Mono, Inter, etc.

https://pastebin.com/d3RzBR6B

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

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Post by 0x457 »

Surprised that I picked Oxygen Mono over Noto, but probably because I wasn't aware of Oxygen.

Would be nice to be able to play it with my own fonts because some got eliminated purely because 0 (zero) looked like O (letter). Fira Code was a winner only because there weren't paid fonts that I use.

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

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Post by mrweasel »

sneak wrote: post #35
timeinput wrote: post #23

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

IBM Plex Mono Ultralight is a joy to look at on a high DPI display.

Do you mean Extralight, I can't seem to find the Ultralight. It's probably just my eyes getting older, but I start to prefer chunkier fonts and 18pt.

Plex is a beautiful font, and one of the few corporate fonts that I actually think works, while being recognizable as being IBM.

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

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Post by whynotmaybe »

0x457 wrote: post #54

Surprised that I picked Oxygen Mono over Noto, but probably because I wasn't aware of Oxygen. Would be nice to be able to play it with my own fonts because some got eliminated purely because 0 (zero) looked like O (letter). Fira Code was a winner only because there weren't paid fonts that I use.

Exactly, it's not really a "coding" font if 0 is like O

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

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Post by deepriverfish »

A few years ago I found comic mono and monofur for Powerline. I switch between the 2 when I get bored of one or the other. I decided I won't try any new fonts, it's a waste of time for me and I hate having too many options to choose from, not only fonts but basically everything else too, it's distracting. Same for my editor's theme, I switch between Braver's Solarized Light and Radical.

This way I can focus on coding and less on tweaking my environment.

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