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mosburger 1 minutes ago [-]
I got Source Code Pro. My daily driver is currently 0xProto, but I didn't see that in the game (admittedly I think it's kinda rarely used).
0x457 3 minutes ago [-]
Surprised that I picked Oxygen Mono over Noto, but probably because I wasn't aware of Oxygen.
Would be nice to be able to play it with my own fonts because some got eliminated purely because 0 (zero) looked like O (letter). Fira Code was a winner only because there weren't paid fonts that I use.
I was intrigued by a font called Codemonkey. This site has lots of classic comic fonts, including WildWords which is used in pretty much every manga translation.
Unfortunately plus signs display as blank spaces in the test drive. Oh well.
nvahalik 1 hours ago [-]
I initially used this one when I started playing around with Zed on a personal project, but I kept it and it has grown on me considerably.
vladde 1 hours ago [-]
similar situation here, but i used it because i thought it was funny... then kept it because it grew on me haha. had it for a few years, might give it a spin again
other_herbert 46 minutes ago [-]
Comic Code Ligatures for me :D
john_strinlai 57 minutes ago [-]
i like that way more than i would have thought simply based on the name.
JasonSage 1 hours ago [-]
I enjoyed this, though my font preferences are pretty stable.
It would be nice if it showed you 1st, 2nd, semi-finalist, quarter-finalist...
It would also be nice to see progress of some kind, a few minutes in I was wondering if I was near completion or just getting started.
croemer 51 minutes ago [-]
It does show you on the left. Just not on the certificate.
regus 1 hours ago [-]
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.
trinari 44 minutes ago [-]
uh isn't the font size kinda independant from the font style?
lstodd 16 minutes ago [-]
It is, but noone serious has time for appreciating latest trends in web typography, so we just hit the reader mode on load.
KronisLV 32 minutes ago [-]
Nowadays I use a lot of Iosevka. Previously I was on Ubuntu and JetBrains Mono, both are great fonts. A bit of PT Mono as well, even Terminus for a bit. One of my favorites has got to be Liberation Mono though - the most readable font I’ve ever found, even if Iosevka lets me put more stuff on screen horizontally. Oh also I’ve started enjoying Cascadia Code recently, surprisingly pleasant.
ale 57 minutes ago [-]
I stopped looking for fonts after I got comfortable tweaking the metric settings of Iosevka. My current setup exports a set of really compressed cuts (more compressed than Pragmata Pro) which I've always found hard to come by.
trinari 47 minutes ago [-]
now i'm curious. care to share you're settings?
ale 4 minutes ago [-]
Sure. The glyph replacements match the "plain" style of SF Mono, Inter, etc.
I'd love to see a page which tracked stats for what the majority of users were picking
jbverschoor 2 minutes ago [-]
Fira Code
chungy 1 hours ago [-]
One nit about the site: the screen elements forced me to make my browser window more than half the size of my screen, and I use a 3840×2160 monitor. My windows are normally about ⅕ the size of the screen and roughly 4:3 ratio shaped. It was nearly unusable like that (I don't suffer issues from almost any other site.)
On the game/bracket: it narrowed me down to Noto Sans Mono and I'm honestly not surprised, it's one of the few fonts that comes with my operating system that I find acceptable.
That being said, what I actually have my terminal and Emacs set to is “AcPlus IBM VGA 8x16” from https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/. I've always been fond of the VGA font and it tickles all the right usability marks for me.
aquir 1 hours ago [-]
For me it's Berkeley Mono...I was unable to find anything that comes close to it. But this games is fun and the result is a font that is similar to my favourite
sevg 8 minutes ago [-]
Another Berkeley Mono user here!
I came from Fira Code to JetBrains Mono to MonoLisa (several years each) then finally settled on Berkeley Mono and refuse to use anything else!
yoyohello13 15 minutes ago [-]
Every time something like this comes up I always end up with JetBrains Mono.
timeinput 55 minutes ago [-]
IBM Plex Mono -- I guess no one ever got fired for choosing IBM?
sneak 38 minutes ago [-]
IBM Plex Mono Ultralight is a joy to look at on a high DPI display.
mrweasel 3 minutes ago [-]
Do you mean Extralight, I can't seem to find the Ultralight. It's probably just my eyes getting older, but I start to prefer chunkier fonts and 18pt.
Plex is a beautiful font, and one of the few corporate fonts that I actually think works, while being recognizable as being IBM.
nikitadotla 47 minutes ago [-]
Ubuntu Mono. I have been using JetBrains Mono for last 2 years and surprisingly I rejected it in a second iteration.
hrimfaxi 16 minutes ago [-]
This is like an eye test for choosing a font, great idea!!
naikrovek 7 minutes ago [-]
If only it showed fonts that I like.
I eventually had to buy one I liked, and non-free fonts won’t ever show up in sites like these.
(It’s called “Codelia” if curious.)
Surac 53 minutes ago [-]
Source Code Pro was my winner in this test. I use Iosevka on a regular base
croemer 51 minutes 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.
embedding-shape 1 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.
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 1 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.
genpfault 1 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.
jeffbee 58 minutes ago [-]
Which is the default, and 99.9% of Firefox users, 99.99% of all users will not have this issue.
ranger_danger 1 hours ago [-]
Fira Code for me.
abound 1 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)
Is it weird that I look at most of the offered pairs and think "meh, both are ok, I guess", but do not feel any preference one way or the other?
Like, some fonts look to weird/unusual that I dislike. But most look just fine and I don't really care.
Am I weird? Do I lack taste?
wang_li 36 minutes ago [-]
Serifs so I and l look different, monospace so it's possible to use spaces for alignment, and a slash or dot in the zero. What else do I need?
44 minutes ago [-]
varispeed 19 minutes ago [-]
Mine is Red Hat Mono, but really I don't like any of the presented fonts.
WhereIsTheTruth 21 minutes ago [-]
JetBrains Mono
That's the one i have been using for many years, look like i made the right choice
cyanydeez 22 minutes ago [-]
I don't need this many rounds to determine it. There should be "neither" to limit the weird fonts that will never fly.
0xdeadbeefbabe 24 minutes ago [-]
I'm tired of colors. I wonder if I hate them all or just haven't found the perfect one.
bensyverson 50 minutes ago [-]
Can we just talk about how good Source Code Pro is?
nomsters 1 hours ago [-]
JetBrains Mono. Makes sense
phplovesong 35 minutes 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.
ChrisArchitect 37 minutes ago [-]
Some previous discussion including a Show HN: from the dev:
Wow, some of these are looking atrocious. (Victor Mono, Syne Mono, Nova Mono)
What I'm missing is DejaVuSansMono which is what I'm using. The result of the test was Ubuntu Mono, which looks okay too.
jeffbee 55 minutes ago [-]
It is sort of baffling that people make some of these hideous fonts, look at them, and decide to publish them regardless. A font where the lowercase i and l are indistinguishable? Okay...
shagie 48 minutes ago [-]
I was amused that Dank Mono wasn't in the lineup (though there was one that had some of its aesthetics)
The one use case I've seen for Dank Mono was presentations with an overhead projector at conferences. The cursive for italics can make some of the structure of the code more differentiated when viewing it at a distance.
Would be nice to be able to play it with my own fonts because some got eliminated purely because 0 (zero) looked like O (letter). Fira Code was a winner only because there weren't paid fonts that I use.
https://www.comicbookfonts.com/Code-Monkey-Variable-font-p/b...
Unfortunately plus signs display as blank spaces in the test drive. Oh well.
It would be nice if it showed you 1st, 2nd, semi-finalist, quarter-finalist...
It would also be nice to see progress of some kind, a few minutes in I was wondering if I was near completion or just getting started.
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.
https://pastebin.com/d3RzBR6B
On the game/bracket: it narrowed me down to Noto Sans Mono and I'm honestly not surprised, it's one of the few fonts that comes with my operating system that I find acceptable.
That being said, what I actually have my terminal and Emacs set to is “AcPlus IBM VGA 8x16” from https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/. I've always been fond of the VGA font and it tickles all the right usability marks for me.
I came from Fira Code to JetBrains Mono to MonoLisa (several years each) then finally settled on Berkeley Mono and refuse to use anything else!
Plex is a beautiful font, and one of the few corporate fonts that I actually think works, while being recognizable as being IBM.
I eventually had to buy one I liked, and non-free fonts won’t ever show up in sites like these.
(It’s called “Codelia” if curious.)
But I prefer (and use) PragmataPro (not free) and it is not part of the test, sadly.
(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
Like, some fonts look to weird/unusual that I dislike. But most look just fine and I don't really care.
Am I weird? Do I lack taste?
That's the one i have been using for many years, look like i made the right choice
2024 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41604781
2021 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29010443
What I'm missing is DejaVuSansMono which is what I'm using. The result of the test was Ubuntu Mono, which looks okay too.
https://philpl.gumroad.com/l/dank-mono
The one use case I've seen for Dank Mono was presentations with an overhead projector at conferences. The cursive for italics can make some of the structure of the code more differentiated when viewing it at a distance.