CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font

Posted by nvahalik 11 hours ago

CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font(www.codingfont.com)

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quibono 6 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 8 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).

foresto 6 hours ago||

Neat.

I wish the sample text included _underscores_, since I have occasionally found that they disappear with certain combinations of font + size + renderer.

And a run of all the numeric digits 0123456789, to show how their heights align.

And [square brackets], to show how easily they are distinguished from certain other glyphs.

And the vertical | bar, for the same reason.

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Adobe Source Code Pro and Ubuntu Mono were my finalists. I think my preference would come down to window and font size, since Ubuntu Mono seemed to be narrower and leave more space between lines.

(Also, I kind of rushed the first few comparisons, so it's possible that I prematurely eliminated a typeface that I would have liked more.)

aidenn0 20 minutes ago|

You can modify the sample text

phplovesong 10 hours ago||

Been running Berkeley Mono for years. Before that i flipped fonts and theme like every week. I sometimes wish you could not change font or color theme at all.

doodpants 9 hours ago|

I can sympathize; I shudder to think of how many total hours of my life I've spent tweaking fonts in my text editors.

That said, these days I almost exclusively use Input Mono [0], specifically the "Narrow" variety. With an occasional sprinkling of either Iosevka Fixed or PragmataPro Mono.

0: https://input.djr.com/

croemer 10 hours ago||

Played it twice to see if it's reproducible. First time, Fira Code; second time Source Code Pro. Source Code Pro came in second first time round as well. Been using Fira Code until now.

delta_p_delta_x 10 hours ago||

This kind of breaks for me because I identify all the familiar fonts quite quickly—Consolas, Inconsolata, Iosevka, JetBrains Mono, Fira Mono/Code, Menlo, SF Mono, Courier...

stephc_int13 10 hours ago||

Got Jetbrains Mono. Not a surprise as I used this font for a long time and I still use it for my terminal font.

But I prefer (and use) PragmataPro (not free) and it is not part of the test, sadly.

eahm 6 hours ago||

I always end up with Consolas, Ubuntu Sans Mono and Hack.

ranger_danger 10 hours ago||

Fira Code for me.

gkhartman 7 hours ago||

Same. Came down to Fira Code and PT Mono. I already use Fira Code, so I probably biased to what I'm used to. I do think that Fira Code is hard to beat when it comes to ambiguous characters.

techwizrd 8 hours ago||

I also got Fira Code, followed by Ubuntu Mono, Source Code Pro, and Oxygen Mono.

vindex10 8 hours ago|

Thanks! A lot of fun!

I'm using Liberation Mono, and it's missing :( i got PT Mono though.

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