Why not Deja Vu Sans Mono? That was the default for years and it's what a lot of us are used to.
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
#212the winner of mine was Inconsolata, tough my favorite font, Iosevka, was not even part of the sample :)
Re: CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font
#213For 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)
> * dotted zero vs slashed zero (i prefer the slashed zero, but dotted is fine as well)
The most shocking revelation that I took from this game is how many coding fonts think it's acceptable to neither slash nor dot their zeroes.
I can't imagine using one of those fonts that leaves 0 and O nearly indistinguishable.
Re: CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font
#214Berkeley 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
ohh thanks for sharing, I'll check that out.
Re: CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font
#215Typo : Webiste URL
The site is unusable on mobile even with desktop mode
In desktop mode the instructions to use the arrows appeared only after I zoomed out, they would gain from being part of the top banner
Would be nice to have the final listing :
1st place, second place, joined third
Re: CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font
#216My coding font is comic-shanns-mono, here's how it looks: https://github.com/jesusmgg/comic-shanns-mono?tab=readme-ov-...
(I may also add that I'm using synthwave 84' in vscode, which adds neon effects on my code using text-shadow)
It's fun when we use software (and prodigious amounts of computation) to emulate the things people complained the most about in old hardware.
Re: CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font
#217IBM Plex Mono -- I guess no one ever got fired for choosing IBM?
I prefer the original, from the 3270 terminals.
Re: CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font
#218Mine is Red Hat Mono, but really I don't like any of the presented fonts.
Luxi Mono was my daily driver for a while, with a patched zero (I added a dot at its center).
Reminded me of Sun consoles.
Re: CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font
#219IBM Plex Mono -- I guess no one ever got fired for choosing IBM?
I'm on board.
But in general, I think obsessing over the monospace font you use for coding is, ultimately, bike shedding. I've used a lot of different fonts over the year, not because I was trying to find the best one, but because I used the default font of whatever tool I was using at the time, and - guess what - I was fine with it every time.
Re: CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font
#220Knowing 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.
No way, I'm sticking with Comic Mono: https://dtinth.github.io/comic-mono-font/