Discussion
genpfault: Doesn't seem to serve rendered samples so you have to set "browser.display.use_document_fonts" to "1" to see anything useful.
chungy: 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 1/5 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.
delta_p_delta_x: [delayed]
regus: 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.
sodimel: My coding font is comic-shanns-mono, here's how it looks: https://github.com/jesusmgg/comic-shanns-mono?tab=readme-ov-...
nvahalik: 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.
abound: 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
stephc_int13: 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.
timeinput: IBM Plex Mono -- I guess no one ever got fired for choosing IBM?
ale: 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.
john_strinlai: i like that way more than i would have thought simply based on the name.
jeffbee: Which is the default, and 99.9% of Firefox users, 99.99% of all users will not have this issue.
trinari: uh isn't the font size kinda independant from the font style?
other_herbert: Comic Code Ligatures for me :D
trinari: now i'm curious. care to share you're settings?
nikitadotla: Ubuntu Mono. I have been using JetBrains Mono for last 2 years and surprisingly I rejected it in a second iteration.
card_zero: 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.
phplovesong: 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.
wang_li: 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?
ChrisArchitect: Some previous discussion including a Show HN: from the dev:2024 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=416047812021 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29010443
0xdeadbeefbabe: I'm tired of colors. I wonder if I hate them all or just haven't found the perfect one.
vova_hn2: 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?
yoyohello13: Every time something like this comes up I always end up with JetBrains Mono.
lstodd: It is, but noone serious has time for appreciating latest trends in web typography, so we just hit the reader mode on load.
hrimfaxi: This is like an eye test for choosing a font, great idea!!
naikrovek: 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.)
aquir: 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: 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!
deepriverfish: I use comic mono myself
speedgoose: Same. It has a double-storey a, which I prefer a lot.
Izkata: How do you feel about cursive? (Victor Mono on the site)
