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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 #11

As I get older I prefer the text on my screen to be bigger than usual. Most websites tend to have super small fonts for some reason. For coding I much prefer fonts that are bold and easier to read. Who actually likes these whimsical cursive looking comments or super thin looking fonts? I ended up with "Roboto Mono" btw.

Same here.. Overpass Mono was chosen for me, but several were quite close.

Also, black backgrounds require bolder fonts.

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

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post #149
post #146

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

This is also my favorite. Though there are many different versions of Iosevka now.

I go for the Iosevka Nerd Font Mono these days to get the nice icons everywhere.

https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/tree/master/patched-...

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

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post #175
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.

PragmataPro looks great, thanks for the tip!

I didn't necessarily select the one closest to what I currently use in the game, but more looking at the shapes of different characters to see what looked the "nicest".

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

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post #179

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…

It's just a tournament, the winner goes to next round. Play it fast, all the way to the end and you'll see how it works. It's some 16 or 32 rounds all the way.

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

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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 ^^

Incredibly jarring lowercase 'a' in that. Far too prominent to the point of affecting readability.
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