CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font

embedding-shape

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.

JasonSage

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.

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 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.

genpfault

Doesn't seem to serve rendered samples so you have to set "browser.display.use_document_fonts" to "1" to see anything useful.

askl

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.

sodimel

My coding font is comic-shanns-mono, here's how it looks: https://github.com/jesusmgg/comic-shanns-mono?tab=readme-ov-...

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.

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

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.

delta_p_delta_x

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...

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

Arn_Thor

Roboto Mono, apparently

wendy7756

This is interesting. I didn’t realize how much font choice affects readability until I switched between a few over time.

nomsters

JetBrains Mono. Makes sense

ranger_danger

Fira Code for me.

keithxm23

I'd love to see a page which tracked stats for what the majority of users were picking

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.

timeinput

IBM Plex Mono -- I guess no one ever got fired for choosing IBM?

Surac

Source Code Pro was my winner in this test. I use Iosevka on a regular base

croemer

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.