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Posted by nvahalik 9 hours ago

CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font(www.codingfont.com)
281 points | 169 commentspage 5
starkparker 7 hours ago|
I already use Inconsolata but had customized it to a point where I didn't recognize it here. It won anyway. Validation!
ralferoo 6 hours ago|
It told me I should use Incosolata. I've used Consolas for as long as I can remember, so I guess they must be pretty similar.

Also, about half of these fonts look utterly unsuitable for coding to me. Nobody really needs serifs and loopy l's in a coding font, surely?

michaelcampbell 5 hours ago||
Fun. Interestingly the one that "won" for me isn't the one I normally use, which was one of the candidates, but I have used it a lot in the past.
abound 9 hours ago||
Obligatory shout-out to Berkeley Mono [1], which understandably isn't on this site because it's a paid font. I really enjoy the customizer that comes with it, I use the font on all my terminal/IDE environments, as well as on my blog.

(FWIW, I just did the codingfont bracket and got Source Code Pro, which I've used in the past, along with Iosevka and Commit Mono)

[1] https://usgraphics.com/products/berkeley-mono

stared 7 hours ago||
I like, as it is quick to decide, and you can see font names afterwards (some indeed looked similar).

At the same time, it would be wonderful if window sizes were more consistent (now things are obstructed, with scrolling, etc). And I would love to download the ranking graph!

genpfault 9 hours ago||
Doesn't seem to serve rendered samples so you have to set "browser.display.use_document_fonts" to "1" to see anything useful.
speedgoose 7 hours ago||
I think it also requires internet access, so you have to enable internet.
jeffbee 8 hours ago||
Which is the default, and 99.9% of Firefox users, 99.99% of all users will not have this issue.
davidpfarrell 7 hours ago||
Because I'm lazy, and forgetful, I went back to my comment from a previous time this was posted:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42554715

Results: Roboto Mono !

gkhartman 6 hours ago||
Neat educational game. Would have liked to see Maple Mono in the line up, but I'm sure you've gotta draw the line somewhere or the game would be too tedious.
embedding-shape 9 hours ago||
Doesn't it kind of default the purpose if you can't see it in the actual environment you'd be using it? I know the differences are very minor between terminals and browsers when it comes to font rendering, but this seems like a tool that should be a plugin with the editor people are intending to use the font with, rather than a website.
quibono 5 hours ago||
Nothing comes close to Iosevka for me, after using it for a while it's hard to find the same mix of narrow+readable.
lordgrenville 6 hours ago|
Nice idea, would be good to add a third option for "these look indistinguishable" (and then I guess they could be bundled together in later stages).
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