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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 maxloh »

kccqzy wrote: post #145
torgeros wrote: post #103

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 ^^

I don’t like it. It looks amateurish in the same way Comic Sans looks to me. I suppose you’d love this if you also enjoy Comic Sans.

It feels more like Consolas to me.

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

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Post by aktenlage »

torgeros wrote: post #103

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 ^^

Woa, that's a weird @ in the screenshot in line 6.

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

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Post by __fst__ »

For me it was a close finish between Fira Code and RedHat Mono. I mostly look out for

* no * 'i' vs 'l' vs '1' (I now mostly prefer fonts where the lowercase 'l' has the righthand bend on the bottom)

* dotted zero vs slashed zero (i prefer the slashed zero, but dotted is fine as well)

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

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Post by dotancohen »

dylan604 wrote: post #120

Going through this, I was introduced to <= being converted to a ligature which immediately ruled it as a nope for me. No monkey business with the characters of my code thank you very much.

This is also the first time I've noticed that some fonts have the center cane of the lower-case "m" shorter than the other canes. I love that!

Interestingly, Ubuntu Mono was the font I landed on - which is already the font that I use. At least I'm consistent.

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

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Post by VorpalWay »

Terminus TTF[1] is my favorite monospace font. The key thing for me is that it is actually a bitmap font, which means it is sharp and crisp. I get headaches from most types of anti-aliasing on traditional low DPI monitors. The colour bleed from subpixel AA is awful, but even most grey scale AA (except when using full hinting as well) is just so blurry.

Unfortunately they seem to have missed it on this page.

[1]: https://files.ax86.net/terminus-ttf/

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

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Post by dotancohen »

torgeros wrote: post #103

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 ^^

What do you like about it? I like that the I and l are distinctive, and of course the distinction between 0 and O. However, there are some nice letter differentiators that it is missing, such as a shorter middle cane in the letter "m" (Ubuntu Mono has this for example).

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

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Post by beacon294 »

delecti wrote: post #81

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.

I had the same but I am thinking of updating to see if I can optimize my terminal a bit. Roboto has font weights, and probably has a better emoji pack, although that's just a guess -- maybe google doesn't tack on emojis by default.
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