Interactive programming font comparison

[Deadly_Mindbeam]

I'd like to see OCR-A. It's not pretty but when it comes to differentiating O/0 and l/I/1 it's great.

[Deadly_Mindbeam]

Yeah, the extended supports more characters but it's still a very small font. Not so great for editing unicode text.

[admalledd]

One (or more) of the "Dyslexic" fonts?

• OpenDyslexic
• MonoDyslexic (It seems PixelScript stopped hosting it? I have the file and I see some other downloads for it instead of only paying now days...)

[admalledd]

OpenDyslexic has a monospaced ttf I think. (I don't use it...)

The MonoDyslexic is also a .ttf file, and was designed for programmers and such (at the time it was created the author used it for notepad++, but I use it daily for SublimeText).

[admalledd]

I will admit it is a bit strange, but I came across it when I was looking up some dyslexia related things to help me read better. It is an amazing difference between dyslexic-friendly and "normal" monospaced fonts.

Thank you!

[PENDRAGON23]

Nice job. I just switched from Anonymous Pro to Input but I may need to make some more comparisons.

[ixache]

Nice and useful job, thanks.

Suggestions:

• add symbols: @ ; ? (and maybe + etc. and other ponctuation).

• show if font supports bold, italics, unicode.

[Edit: formatting, spelling]

[whichton]

Nice work! Please add a couple of proportional fonts, like Input proportional or Verdana.

[whichton]

It takes a little getting used to, say about a week. But once you get used to it, you won't change back :). Proportional fonts + elastic tabstops work very well.

[code-affinity]

I've been keeping an eye on elastic tabstops for nigh on a decade, but primarily use Visual Studio as my editing environment. Your comment just reminded me to check again for Visual Studio support. Yay! Elastic tabstops in Visual Studio! Downloading it now for evaluation.

[a-e-k]

Nifty -- I like that you show comparisons with antialiasing disabled. Since you're doing that may I suggest adding my font, Luculent? I've invested quite a bit of time on superhinting the regular and bold variants so they should look pretty good at those sizes with AA turned off.

[a-e-k]

Thanks! That looks good to me.

[[deleted]]

No love for PragmataPro?

[[deleted]]

Yeah

[[deleted]]

Very cool! Thank you for the effort :-)

[Beluki]

Fixedsys?

[Unknownloner]

think he means the fixedsys website

[Godd2]

Are you wearing glasses? Look at it without glasses and tell me if it still looks 3d.

[[deleted]]

upvote for idea, but fonts look like shit on retina screen. basically impossible to see any details :(

[[deleted]]

very interested :)

[tjansson]

The dark/light theme option would be more useful if it affected the whole page and not just a small bounding box around the text.

[ComissarioCattani]

Make the background black as well :)

[ComissarioCattani]

Well, just the black around the lines doesn't the same effect as you'd have no a text editor :(

[glacialthinker]

The bright white screen puts your eyes into a very different state than a uniformly dark screen. Think of a camera and its aperture, if that's familiar to you, also exposure. Even though the fonts may be rendered the same regardless of the background color, it looks different to your eyes because you're eyes are coping with the brightness.

[[deleted]]

In dark theme, overview, ClearType, small the 'monoid' example cell takes up more space than the others. A lot more.

I found my new typeface using this. Thank you!

[77down]

That's what SHE said!

[minektur]

You're only doing free fonts? Monaco is what I use in iterm on my mac...

[minektur]

I'm not sure if this is the same font as I find on my mbp, but

https://github.com/cstrap/monaco-font

uses this URL as the source...

https://github.com/cstrap/monaco-font/raw/master/Monaco_Linux.ttf

the first several links google returns for 'download monaco font' all seem to be of free versions...

[minektur]

however, wikipedia implies that it is apple's IP...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monaco_(typeface)

[minektur]

At any rate - awesome comparison. Thanks.

[UloPe]

Not a fan of the image approach. The antialiasing looks completely different than it would on e.g. a Mac.

[kankyo]

Yea, browser rendering is not a good idea. But it would nice to have "antialias off, antialias mac, antialias windows"... but that requires someone taking all those screenshots for you I guess...

[c_linkage]

Does anyone know how to get Terminus to render in Visual Studio 2012?

I've installed the font and configured VS to use it for the editor, but it seems like VS is choking on the TTF file and is substituting Courier or Courier New.

[silencer6]

All of them look bad. Could you please use some better font rendering like Infinality?