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Coding Font by Typogram – Find Your True Love of Coding Fonts

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Re: Coding Font by Typogram – Find Your True Love of Coding Fonts

#31
Am I missing something or do you have to make a decision without being provided a single example of an upper-case character?

The idea is great, thanks for sharing! But att I don't feel it provides enough sample data to really make an informed decision.

Re: Coding Font by Typogram – Find Your True Love of Coding Fonts

#35
This one is good, however, for me there's always a weird problem - I choose a font I like on some site, install it, then set it in my IDE (MSVS or VSCode @Win7/10/11) and it is... I wouldn't say like sh*t, or even looks very much different, but for some reason just not as good as it was in the browser. I wonder what am I doing wrong?

Re: Coding Font by Typogram – Find Your True Love of Coding Fonts

#36
post #35

This one is good, however, for me there's always a weird problem - I choose a font I like on some site, install it, then set it in my IDE (MSVS or VSCode @Win7/10/11) and it is... I wouldn't say like sh*t, or even looks very much different, but for some reason just not as good as it was in the browser. I wonder what am I doing wrong?

ah, but maybe it's the first time in a history when I'm happy with a font I've just found. Thanks for the site and for featuring the Incosolata font!

Re: Coding Font by Typogram – Find Your True Love of Coding Fonts

#37

Feature request: Optically normalize physical glyph size and line spacing across typefaces. (See: CSS `font-size-adjust`.)

Alternatively, let me choose the font sizes and weights and such independently. I don’t need to look at the same point size for two fonts, I need to look at two fonts where I set the size and whatever to be how I would set them in my code editor.

Re: Coding Font by Typogram – Find Your True Love of Coding Fonts

#38

Am I missing something or do you have to make a decision without being provided a single example of an upper-case character? The idea is great, thanks for sharing! But att I don't feel it provides enough sample data to really make an informed decision.

I can confirm your suspicions — what I saw was syntax-highlighted code.

Re: Coding Font by Typogram – Find Your True Love of Coding Fonts

#39

I hid the font names and still ended up with my current go-to font (JetBrains mono). I’m not sure if that’s the effect of familiarity or if we are truly meant for each other.

Indeed.

—JetBrains Mono is the font I find myself orbiting these days. And as far as I know it was made with good first principles in mind. I’m willing to call it objectively good.

Re: Coding Font by Typogram – Find Your True Love of Coding Fonts

#40

I was pretty fixed on B612, and am still a bit reluctant to change my editors, but this introduced me to Azeret Mono, which I have to admit is slightly more appealing .. will have to A/B B612/AzeretMono this week and see what my eyeballs think after some hours staring into the oblivion ..

I still can't figure out the rationale behind the design of (, ) in B612. Why they made it look like [, ]?

Yes, this is the exact reason I selected AzeretMono instead of B612 in the final round - the difference between (, ) and [, ] .. It is indeed an odd failing of B612 and I wonder if it is because of some context in the Airbus cockpit (for which B612 is designed) that makes this difference moot. Or, not ...
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