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.
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
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.
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 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.
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.
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
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.
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...
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)
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.
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...
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.
My coding font is comic-shanns-mono, here's how it looks: https://github.com/jesusmgg/comic-shanns-mono?tab=readme-ov-...
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.
https://www.comicbookfonts.com/Code-Monkey-Variable-font-p/b...
Unfortunately plus signs display as blank spaces in the test drive. Oh well.
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.
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
Comic Code Ligatures for me :D
i like that way more than i would have thought simply based on the name.
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.
It does show you on the left. Just not on the certificate.
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.
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.
uh isn't the font size kinda independant from the font style?
It is, but noone serious has time for appreciating latest trends in web typography, so we just hit the reader mode on load.
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.
now i'm curious. care to share you're settings?
Sure. The glyph replacements match the "plain" style of SF Mono, Inter, etc.
[buildPlans.IosevkaCompressed] family = "Iosevka Compressed" spacing = "fixed" serifs = "sans" noCvSs = true exportGlyphNames = false
[buildPlans.IosevkaCompressed.variants.design] one = "base-long-top-serif" two = "straight-neck-serifless" four = "closed-serifless" eight = "two-circles" zero = "dotted" capital-g = "toothless-rounded-serifless-hooked" capital-j = "serifless" capital-k = "symmetric-connected-serifless" capital-m = "flat-bottom-serifless" capital-q = "crossing" capital-w = "straight-flat-top-serifless" f = "flat-hook-serifless-crossbar-at-x-height" g = "single-storey-flat-hook-serifless" j = "flat-hook-serifed" k = "symmetric-connected-serifless" l = "serifed" t = "flat-hook-short-neck2" u = "toothed-serifless" w = "straight-flat-top-serifless" y = "straight-turn-serifless" long-s = "flat-hook-serifless" lower-eth = "straight-bar" lower-alpha = "barred" lower-delta = "flat-top" lower-iota = "serifed-flat-tailed" lower-mu = "toothed-serifless" lower-xi = "rounded" lower-tau = "flat-tailed" tilde = "low" asterisk = "penta-low" underscore = "above-baseline" caret = "low" brace = "curly" guillemet = "straight" ampersand = "closed" at = "threefold" dollar = "through" percent = "rings-continuous-slash" question = "smooth" pilcrow = "low" lig-ltgteq = "slanted" lig-neq = "slightly-slanted" lig-equal-chain = "without-notch" lig-hyphen-chain = "without-notch"
[buildPlans.IosevkaCompressed.ligations] inherits = "dlig"
[buildPlans.IosevkaCompressed.weights.Regular] shape = 400 menu = 400 css = 400
[buildPlans.IosevkaCompressed.weights.Bold] shape = 700 menu = 700 css = 700
[buildPlans.IosevkaCompressed.widths.Normal] shape = 416 menu = 5 css = "normal"
[buildPlans.IosevkaCompressed.slopes.Upright] angle = 0 shape = "upright" menu = "upright" css = "normal"
[buildPlans.IosevkaCompressed.slopes.Oblique] angle = 10 shape = "oblique" menu = "oblique" css = "oblique"
[buildPlans.IosevkaCompressed.metricOverride] leading = 1050 xHeight = 530 sb = 'default_sb + 2'
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.
I'd love to see a page which tracked stats for what the majority of users were picking
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
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!
Every time something like this comes up I always end up with JetBrains Mono.
IBM Plex Mono -- I guess no one ever got fired for choosing IBM?
IBM Plex Mono Ultralight is a joy to look at on a high DPI display.
This is like an eye test for choosing a font, great idea!!
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.)
Ubuntu Mono. I have been using JetBrains Mono for last 2 years and surprisingly I rejected it in a second iteration.
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.
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.
Well, Atkinson Hyperlegible Mono ... - thank you!!!
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...
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.
Doesn't seem to serve rendered samples so you have to set "browser.display.use_document_fonts" to "1" to see anything useful.
Which is the default, and 99.9% of Firefox users, 99.99% of all users will not have this issue.
Source Code Pro was my winner in this test. I use Iosevka on a regular base
Fira Code for me.
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?
Mine is Red Hat Mono, but really I don't like any of the presented fonts.
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
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?
JetBrains Mono
That's the one i have been using for many years, look like i made the right choice
I don't need this many rounds to determine it. There should be "neither" to limit the weird fonts that will never fly.
I'm tired of colors. I wonder if I hate them all or just haven't found the perfect one.
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.
JetBrains Mono. Makes sense
Some previous discussion including a Show HN: from the dev:
2024 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41604781
2021 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29010443
Roboto Mono, apparently
Can we just talk about how good Source Code Pro is?
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.
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...
I was amused that Dank Mono wasn't in the lineup (though there was one that had some of its aesthetics)
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.