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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

#112

If you prefer proportional fonts, here's one that pads a 1/3 of a space before uppercase letters, so it makes camelCase more legible. https://github.com/ericfortis/verdanacamel

This is very cool.

Anecdotal solely to me, very unnerving and even with formatting marks enabled makes me feel uneasy seeing a space without a space formatting mark.

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

#113

Cool, obviously a lot of people are going to quibble about the default lineup (wheres Iosevka?) but for anyone who hasn't nailed down a preference it seems great!

Iosevka might be difficult to add because it has so many options. Then again, that's why I use it.

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

#114

Knowing that everything in here is people asking why their font is missing: I highly recommend having a look at [ MAPLE MONO ] (on Github https://github.com/subframe7536/Maple-font ). It has amazing readability, looks nice, is compatible with NF if you use that. I received compliments from people looking over my shoulder for my f'ing font?! Huge shoutout to subframe7536 ^^

Seconding Maple Mono - it's very nice.

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

#116

If you prefer proportional fonts, here's one that pads a 1/3 of a space before uppercase letters, so it makes camelCase more legible. https://github.com/ericfortis/verdanacamel

This is very cool. Anecdotal solely to me, very unnerving and even with formatting marks enabled makes me feel uneasy seeing a space without a space formatting mark.

yep, sometimes I switch to mono before sharing my screen

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

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post #90

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.

Berkeley Mono was the first time I bought a font.

It's so good. Perfect even. And they have a really neat customization tool.

I've been using it for a few years now and they actually still occasionally release a new version of it. Haven't gotten tired of it yet.

The only complaint I have about it is that I had to do a hacky workaround to get my Nix setups to pull it in since it's proprietary.

I even forked their "Machine Report" tool (which presumes Debian) to make it work on Linux/NixOS by applying a "polyfill": https://github.com/pmarreck/usgc-machine-report-nixos-editio...

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