You can use this game to narrow down 30 monospaced typefaces to find your favorite font for coding. I somehow ended up with Courier Prime (🤔) and promptly sent myself to my room for the rest of the day. (I use Menlo in VSCode.)
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I have done this three times and keep landing on inconsolata.
I have never imagined myself as team inconsolata.
Revealed preference can be a real SOB.
It was down to Fira Code vs Roboto Mono for me. Roboto won, but it was really close. I've been using Fira Code in Sublime Text, RubyMine, iTerm for years.
If it makes you feel any better I also got Courier Prime.
Source Code Pro here..."For mastering the art of bézier curve pageantry, where zeros, arrows and curly brackets stand heroic in a 10-hour coding crusade! For turning each keystroke into a clear, courageous character, triumphing in the tumultuous tournament of type!"
Make sure to change the font size at the top to the size you use in your editor. I got wildly different results when changed the size (smaller) to what I use day-to-day. I also turned ligatures off (on by default); I hate a lot of the ligatures some fonts add, which affected my results.
Menlo in Textmate. But after reading Gruber’s post on it, I am playing around with SF Mono and quite like it. Consolas won most time when I played but I cannot get over the waaay too short dash.
I got 'Hack' which is so similar to Menlo (which was not in the game), that it's not worth switching. I code in Sublime Text 4.
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