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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 yoyohello13 »

tzot wrote: post #166
yoyohello13 wrote: post #49

Every time something like this comes up I always end up with JetBrains Mono.

I tried this variant of JetBrains Mono and it had the perfect glyph width (reportedly -6%) for my screen and window sizes: NRK Mono Condensed from https://github.com/N-R-K/NRK-Mono . I also agree with almost all of the other modifications mentioned in the github page under “Some notable changes are:” Now I can have side-by-side two editors plus a Structure or Project pane at the left in PyCharm while having 120 chars…

Neat! I'll check it out.

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

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Post by stackghost »

amstan wrote: post #172

I want my time back :D . Here I was picking things that i liked the most, and it gave me Ubuntu Mono, a font I already have selected in my editor.

I ended up with Roboto Mono, a font I used to use before I switched from Linux to Mac for my daily drivers. I'm not the kind of person who can identify a font by name simply by looking at it, so I was pleasantly surprised! I chose it more or less at random back in 2012.

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

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Post by ziml77 »

joch wrote: post #146

Missing my favorite, Iosevka: https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka Playing the game gave me Jetbrains Mono though.

Wow JetBrains Mono to me is the furthest thing possible from Iosevka. I use PragmataPro (which Iosevka is extremely similar to) and I hate JetBrains Mono for feeling so large compared to the compact characters I'm used to.

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

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Post by tom_ »

Well, I appear to be the only person that likes Nanum Gothic Coding. (Though I typically use Input Mono - not present in this site's set of fonts.)

The semifinals for me with ligatures enabled were Inconsolata vs Cousine, and Nanum Gothic Coding vs Xanh Mono. With ligatures disabled: Xanh Mono vs Nanum Gothic Coding, and Share Tech Mono vs Roboto Mono.

It'd be nice if you could click the various fonts in play at the end, to see them again and compare them against one another. (Regarding comparing images against one another: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46954055) I had specific metrics that I was going for, but sometimes it was marginal.

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

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Post by ss141309 »

amanzi wrote: post #132
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've been a long time Fira Code user, but recently switched to Maple - I love it. Mostly because of the "single storey" `a`, but that's just a personal preference of mine.

Fira Code does have a "single storey" a. You can activate it by passing the "cv01" feature flag to your text editor of choice. (If the text editor supports otf font features)

For more info: https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/wiki/How-to-enable-stylis...

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

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Post by hysan »

Dunno how long this is normally supposed to go but it took me 10+ min of actually seriously considering the fonts at each choice and the final suggestion is a font that I actively dislike. I’m curious how it’s narrowing things down because I noticed that it started to give me only serif fonts which I don’t like. But the sans serif ones that it was using to try and narrow things down had distinct characteristics that I didn’t like like very narrow stems or very narrow or wide characters. But it wasn’t doing that with serif fonts. I’m guessing it began to think I preferred serifs because of that but in reality, I wasn’t picking the lesser of two evils most of the time.

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

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Post by cweagans »

sivakon wrote: post #177

https://ibb.co/chk13GxD I found this somewhere on the internet. Haven't been able to know what this font is.

Can you please make an image that is like 10x bigger? Like 30px font and include all the alphanumeric characters? This font looks so familiar.
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