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

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Post by delecti » Mon, Mar 30, 2026, 6:18 PM UTC

I clicked this link with the thought "I'm curious, but I don't think I really have strong opinions about fonts", and was almost immediately proven wrong with the revulsion I felt at Xanh Mono.

Though it turns out that VS Code default (Droid Sans Mono) is (to my eye) basically identical to my winner (Roboto Mono), so the exercise was mostly academic.

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

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Post by dhorthy » Mon, Mar 30, 2026, 6:20 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-...

diabolical

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

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Post by craftkiller » Mon, Mar 30, 2026, 6:21 PM UTC

KronisLV wrote: post #40

Nowadays I use a lot of Iosevka. Previously I was on Ubuntu and JetBrains Mono, both are great fonts. A bit of PT Mono as well, even Terminus for a bit. One of my favorites has got to be Liberation Mono though - the most readable font I’ve ever found, even if Iosevka lets me put more stuff on screen horizontally. Oh also I’ve started enjoying Cascadia Code recently, surprisingly pleasant.

Yeah I was disappointed that Cascadia was not in the fonts on the site. What won me over for Cascadia was: I decided to try it for a couple weeks. By the end, I was certain that Cascadia must be larger than my previous font because it was so much easier to read, so I opened two terminals side-by-side and counted the rows+columns that fit between my old font and Cascadia. To my complete shock, Cascadia fit a couple more lines on my screen, indicating that it was actually _smaller_ despite being easier to read.

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

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Post by whalesalad » Mon, Mar 30, 2026, 6:21 PM UTC

diehunde wrote: post #80

Did the whole thing. I got IBM Plex. Actually looks great

This is my daily driver, although recently I have been enjoying Cascadia Code for something fresh.

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

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Post by thetwentyone » Mon, Mar 30, 2026, 6:22 PM UTC

I wish it had my favorite in it so that I could do a blind test to see if it really is my favorite: https://juliamono.netlify.app

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

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Post by gnarlouse » Mon, Mar 30, 2026, 6:26 PM UTC

I got Anonymous Pro

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

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Post by bolp » Mon, Mar 30, 2026, 6:28 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-...

Thanks, I hate it.

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

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Post by oneneptune » Mon, Mar 30, 2026, 6:28 PM UTC

Courier Prime won for me, I've always been a courier fan I guess because I wrote all my books in the 90s with it..

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

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Post by dmd » Mon, Mar 30, 2026, 6:31 PM UTC

I was pleased to find that I chose the font I actually use.

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

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Post by sedatk » Mon, Mar 30, 2026, 6:32 PM UTC

Berkeley Mono, Iosevka, and Cascadia Code are missing which are my favorite fonts. The game handed me Roboto Mono instead.

What I noticed while playing was that when fonts are similar, I really pay attention to the rendering of "m" and "r". When they look off, the whole font looks off to me.