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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 saghm »

Last time I took this I ended up with the exact font I already use, and I realized that it was because I was basically picking whichever font was closer to it on each choice. Because I also enforce my fonts of choice on my browser, I guess it's just the only font I've read code in for so many years that it's just "what code should look like" to me.

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

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Post by performative »

ksymph wrote: post #108
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 ^^

While we're dropping lesser-known coding fonts, here's my favorite, Lotion [0]. It's cute and playful but also very legible and clean. [0] https://font.nina.coffee/

personally love collletttivo's necto mono: https://www.collletttivo.it/typefaces/necto-mono

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

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Post by spankalee »

I love this, but I really wish it were structured as a "Hot or Not" type of round robin system rather than a bracket.

Some fonts are close enough that I don't know if I'd choose one over the other consistently, and I'd be curious to see a percentage score of how much I like a particular font.

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

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Post by faustlast »

sedatk wrote: 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 + iosevka = https://github.com/ahatem/IoskeleyMono
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