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• michaelcampbell
  Fun. Interestingly the one that "won" for me isn't the one I normally use, which was one of the candidates, but I have used it a lot in the past.
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  sedatk
  Berkeley Mono, Iosevka, and Cascadia Code are missing which are my favorite fonts. The game handed me Roboto Mono instead.What I noticed while playing was that when fonts are similar, I really pay attention to the rendering of "m" and "r". When they look off, the whole font looks off to me.
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  torgeros
  Knowing that everything in here is people asking why their font is missing: I highly recommend having a look at[ MAPLE MONO ](on Github https://github.com/subframe7536/Maple-font). It has amazing readability, looks nice, is compatible with NF if you use that. I received compliments from people looking over my shoulder for my f'ing font?! Huge shoutout to subframe7536 ^^
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  sodimel
  My coding font is comic-shanns-mono, here's how it looks: https://github.com/jesusmgg/comic-shanns-mono?tab=readme-ov-...
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  KronisLV
  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.
• delecti
  I clicked this link with the thought "I'm curious, but I don't think I really have strong opinions about fonts", and was almost immediately proven wrong with the revulsion I felt at Xanh Mono.Though it turns out that VS Code default (Droid Sans Mono) is (to my eye) basically identical to my winner (Roboto Mono), so the exercise was mostly academic.
• ghosty141
  Oh this is really cool, I did it and I landed on the font I've been using for years now: "Fira Code".
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  akarlsten
  Cool, obviously a lot of people are going to quibble about the default lineup (wheres Iosevka?) but for anyone who hasn't nailed down a preference it seems great!
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  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.
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  efortis
  If you prefer proportional fonts, here's one that pads a 1/3 of a space before uppercase letters, so it makes camelCase more legible.https://github.com/ericfortis/verdanacamel
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  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
• tmtvl
  The font I use, IBM Plex Mono, I chose not because I love the font, but because it's the one I love most of the fonts with CJK variants (which basically means IBM Plex, Google Noto, or Adobe Source). It's unfortunate because I really like Libertinus (a rare serif monospace font), but trying to match different non-CJK and CJK fonts that work well together is annoying.
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  mosburger
  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).
• coldcity_again
  I got PT Mono in the game, but this gave me the kick I needed to remember about ProggyClean[1] and track it down. Used to love it many years ago, time to give it another spin and see if it holds its own.There's a vector version[2] now too![1]: http://proggyfonts.net/[2]: https://github.com/bluescan/proggyfonts/tree/master/ProggyVe...
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  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.
• keithxm23
  I'd love to see a page which tracked stats for what the majority of users were picking
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  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.
• lemontheme
  Lately I've taken to Iosevka, the 'curly' variant to be precise. Even though I hated it when I first tried it, I revisited it because I was noticing that, with coding agents running in the same window, I wanted to be able to see more at a glance. With Iosevka's semi-width glyphs you can just fit a lot more in the same space. Took a day or two to get used to its slender appearance. Now every other font feels unnecessarily w i d e
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  deepriverfish
  A few years ago I found comic mono and monofur for Powerline. I switch between the 2 when I get bored of one or the other. I decided I won't try any new fonts, it's a waste of time for me and I hate having too many options to choose from, not only fonts but basically everything else too, it's distracting. Same for my editor's theme, I switch between Braver's Solarized Light and Radical.This way I can focus on coding and less on tweaking my environment.
• 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.
• thetwentyone
  I wish it had my favorite in it so that I could do a blind test to see if it really is my favorite: https://juliamono.netlify.app
• gkhartman
  Neat educational game. Would have liked to see Maple Mono in the line up, but I'm sure you've gotta draw the line somewhere or the game would be too tedious.
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  timeinput
  IBM Plex Mono -- I guess no one ever got fired for choosing IBM?
• BruceEel
  Well, Atkinson Hyperlegible Mono ... - thank you!!!
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  0x457
  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.
• oneneptune
  Courier Prime won for me, I've always been a courier fan I guess because I wrote all my books in the 90s with it..
• lordgrenville
  Nice idea, would be good to add a third option for "these look indistinguishable" (and then I guess they could be bundled together in later stages).
• stared
  I like, as it is quick to decide, and you can see font names afterwards (some indeed looked similar).At the same time, it would be wonderful if window sizes were more consistent (now things are obstructed, with scrolling, etc). And I would love to download the ranking graph!
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  starkparker
  I already use Inconsolata but had customized it to a point where I didn't recognize it here. It won anyway. Validation!
• davidpfarrell
  Because I'm lazy, and forgetful, I went back to my comment from a previous time this was posted:* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42554715Results: Roboto Mono !
• Surac
  Source Code Pro was my winner in this test. I use Iosevka on a regular base
• vindex10
  Thanks! A lot of fun!I'm using Liberation Mono, and it's missing :( i got PT Mono though.
• nikitadotla
  Ubuntu Mono. I have been using JetBrains Mono for last 2 years and surprisingly I rejected it in a second iteration.
• 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.
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  dmd
  I was pleased to find that I chose the font I actually use.
• 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
• 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.
• airstrike
  please add TokyoNight and its variants. I can't imagine using any other theme!
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  diehunde
  Did the whole thing. I got IBM Plex. Actually looks great
• 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...
• 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.
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  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.
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  genpfault
  Doesn't seem to serve rendered samples so you have to set "browser.display.use_document_fonts" to "1" to see anything useful.
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  ranger_danger
  Fira Code for me.
• yoyohello13
  Every time something like this comes up I always end up with JetBrains Mono.
• krunck
  Roboto Mono for the win.
• Levitating
  I got Cuisine, I was trying to get Hack.
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  hrimfaxi
  This is like an eye test for choosing a font, great idea!!
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  gnarlouse
  I got Anonymous Pro
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  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?
• j45
  This was a pleasant surprise to enjoy, I was surprised to discover a font I wasn’t aware of.Seeing all the fonts listed here it would be great to be able to add user submissions into the mix.
• fortyseven
  It works -- by the end I was facing off against my two favorites. ;) I CAN'T CHOOSE.
• anon
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• varispeed
  Mine is Red Hat Mono, but really I don't like any of the presented fonts.
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  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
• nomsters
  JetBrains Mono. Makes sense
• bensyverson
  Can we just talk about how good Source Code Pro is?
• grigio
  ubuntu mono, fira code
• jbverschoor
  Fira Code
• WhereIsTheTruth
  JetBrains MonoThat's the one i have been using for many years, look like i made the right choice
• cyanydeez
  I don't need this many rounds to determine it. There should be "neither" to limit the weird fonts that will never fly.
• 0xdeadbeefbabe
  I'm tired of colors. I wonder if I hate them all or just haven't found the perfect one.
• Arn_Thor
  Roboto Mono, apparently
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  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.
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