This is cool. Do you take request to add font to your site? If so, could you also add one of my favorite font Nanum Gothic to sw9w.io?(http://dev.naver.com/projects/nanumfont/download/). Although it is relatively unknown, I haven't found any programming font I like except this one.
Details on the antialiasing configuration would be nice. These look completely different from what my fontconfig renders (uglies, IMHO, but that's subjective).
Maybe a bit more tweaking options, like the basic AA, hinting, etc would help.
All the screenshots are rendered with sublime text on Windows 7. There are the three basic options for no AA, default AA (ClearType) and gdipp.
What are you rendering on? What options in particular would you like to include? I know that different OSes have different font renders. And probably different programs, too. I'm always glad to make the site better, so I'm open for suggestions.
I'm using Xorg/fontconfig. So rendering is absolutely different (both in options and results).
I find it odd that all options are on windows 7 given that these are PROGRAMMING fonts. In my experience, windows programmers are a very small minority, OS X and GNU/Linux being predominant.
It's a time sink because I can never settle on one I like. See my other comment in this thread about searching for that perfect Bloomberg terminal font replacement.
Well, Fira Code, Monoid and Hasklig are quite popular fonts. I personally like arrows and fat arrows, they're so much better than their "composite" versions ( <- -> <= and =>), especially in some monospace fonts where dash is not in the middle vertically. "Shove" symbols ( >>= and <<= ) are also much nicer. The rest is I can live without :-)
Something's weird in the code samples displayed for mononoki. The last </div> and braces are highlighted there, but not for other fonts. Also the digits in the first two lines have different colours.
Yeah, that seems to be because I use sublime text for rendering. Sublimes Syntax coloring was updated recently, so the code is now interpreted and colored differently.
When adding a new font, I like to only render the new one because of the sheer number of screenshots, files and time it takes to redo everything. Currently the site contains 2569 individual images. But I'll look into it later today. Maybe I can fix it. It's distracting right now. Good eye for noticing though :D
Great resource. I could see how it might be useful to add a few filters - like for me, filter out fonts where captial-O and zero 0 look too similar (perhaps none, slashed, dotted -- as I frequently work in/with Norwegian, so the zero shouldn't really look to much like an Ø either...).
I'm sure there are other things that tend to annoy me, that are a matter of taste, but that's the first one that came to mind. Maybe some of them have poor differentiation between apostrophe/single-quote/back-tick?
Which is designed to cover all those tricky cases. Do you still think something is missing?
The reason for not flagging the fonts on those differences is that it's kinda tricky. First it would be a lot of work and increase the complexity of the site. But mainly it's not so clear because some fonts like Monoid and Input actually offer highly customizable options to fine tune for these things like slahed or non-slashed zeros etc
No, I think your compare-page is excellent. I'd just like an (even) easier way to pare down fonts to pick and compare. Personally I don't really care all that much if a font is really pretty, if it falls down on (some) of those.
I get that it would be a lot of work, and a pull request would be more welcome than a comment :-)
Maybe an interface where others could tag the fonts, and have some suggested tags (dashed-zero, dotted-zero, plain-zero; el-one (1 and l too similar), pipe-I etc) -- and a way to filter on those?
I'm not sure it would be all that helpful, but it's an idea as the number of fonts grow. I suppose I could even see that work for a bigger project that included non-monospace fonts.
I added Mononoki to the default comparison and found I like it best of all the san-serif fonts but overall prefer the serifs over san-serifs, particularly Anonymous Pro.
I can only speak for my design process, but i had chosen a double story a for mononoki because a single story a can be really hard to distinguish from an o, especially in a more geometric typeface. Monaco gets away with it because it has very pronounced bowls, but even there it's easy to mistake one for the other.
Some of them use a single story "a" for the italicized form. Consolas, Courier Prime, Envy Code R, Fantasque Sans Mono, Iosevka, Luculent and mononoki, and mabe others that i missed. You can check them out on the "Compare" mode on that page, "var" is rendered in italics :)
I think Monaco isn't freely available, right? I remember this being requested all the time, but there was some reason not to. Feel free to correct me though.
