CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font
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2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
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HN comment orderSomething I never liked about this game is its showing it in your browser at your chosen font size. Chrome (assuming you're using Chrome) draws it a specific way. This does not match how Freetype (using typical tuning) or DirectWrite draws it. Chrome's choices in font renderer tuning and blending makes it kind of split the difference between Windows-style and OSX-style, and isn't native to either. What it should be doing is showing you lossless screenshots of actual in-app renders…
I like the idea. Some thoughts: - Center the code samples on the page. So that your not unintentionally one over the other due to differences in viewing angle and vision ability. - Make all the fonts equal in height regardless of font point. Knee jerk reaction will be to go with the font that is closest to a persons normal preference. - Hide Font names and size/points. - Light theme and other color options. - Other programming language options…
I hid the names and arrived at my second favorite font. And then I noticed my favorite font is missing!! You should add Iosevka, it's on GitHub. If you use Google fonts or webfonts or something for this to be easier, I also have it as a webfont on my GitHub.
Since coding fonts seem to be of interest today I thought I’d repost this. Original discussion when the creator posted a Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29010443
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 1011
- Total comments
- 499
100+ points or 50+ comments
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-10-27 | Show HN: Coding Font – A game to find your favorite coding fontFirst breakout | wentin | 443 | 218 |
| 2023-05-13 | Coding Font – A game to find your favorite coding font | CobaltFire | 5 | 0 |
| 2023-07-19 | Coding Font – A game to find your favorite coding font | CobaltFire | 4 | 1 |
| 2023-07-26 | Coding Font | evo_9 | 2 | 2 |
| 2024-04-25 | CodingFont | Tomte | 2 | 0 |
| 2024-09-20 | Coding Font by Typogram – Find Your True Love of Coding Fonts | rootforce | 56 | 39 |
| 2026-03-30 | CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding fontHall induction · Best thread · Latest 20+ point return | nvahalik | 499 | 239 |