The link to the tournament looks so much like a header (which I assumed would just be a permalink to the blog post that I am reading) that I spent a full minute looking for it
I think this is a hold-out from old-school blogging, where each post would have a url that was often an external link. Feeds often reinforced this, favouring the external link over the 'blog post permalink' (I guess since, who would care about that when they already have the full text content?).
On the site's home page, the posts include a "" link which points to the post itself. I'm guessing the reason the posts don't link to themselves is another hold-out from the old-school: a page linking to itself was typically considered bad practice.
I ended looking for the link then clicking the apparently first link “Via Jason Snell”. In that page the link to the tournament is also the header (which I did not notice). The last paragraph on that page had a link to the tournament and that’s what I ended up clicking. I’m glad I’m not the only one
I became an Iosevka convert this year. If there are things about it you don't like, you can likely build a custom variant that fixes those things. There are 54 variants for the zero character, for example. Pick your poison.
https://typeof.net/Iosevka/
I like the build of Iosevka that the Zed editor people made, called Zed Mono. It's hosted on github [0] but there are no screenshots. You can see kind of how it looks in the screenshots of their editor on their website though [1]
I use comic shanns mono [0] for both printscreen annotations and in neovim with the hopes of subtly trolling whoever I'm sharing screen with.
For three years have I now suffered, with 0 reaction. Three years. I haven't lost faith though... one day, someone will say "what the hell kind of font is that? why would you do that?", and I will chuckle.
I appreciate your pursuit of this artistic endeavour. Truly great art is always the product of great personal sacrifice.
That said, it does make me wonder about two alternative approaches:
A) When a screenshot is detected, change the font, produce the screenshot and then change it back. You could probably do this on a per-application basis with something like AutoHotKey, or there's probably a deeper way of doing it on the OS-level.
B) Use the magic of AI. Given it's monospaced, you could probably modify an image model to replace the relevant font of the screenshot.
Of course, these approaches may compromise your artistic integrity.
As a typography dork who annoys friends by pointing out fonts all the time, it saddens me I am not your coworker to fulfill this long con. Much respect.
Monaco, which used to be the default font for MacOs, is my favorite. And it is a cousin of comic sans. It was designed by Susan Kare, one of the original designers of the Macintosh.
I extracted the TempleOS font (which itself was mostly ripped from FreeDOS apparently) and used it for all the text in my browser with a CSS override addon a few years ago:
Looking at their about[0] page, it seems like Typogram is a company started by the person who also created Coding Font. That might explain the "by Typogram" label.
Interesting, got font I never even heard of: DM Mono. I guess I’ll try it.
Besides no proprietary fonts (I use Cascadia Code currently… actually this is also open, maybe only google font fonts?), some other things I wish were different:
1. Some alternative to the one-strike tournament. I got Space Mono vs Oxygen Mono in the first round, and liked both of those a lot more than most others. Oxygen won, but Space would have won against most other fonts.
2. Independent sizes. I don’t like tiny fonts (HN is at 220% zoom for me), some of these fonts are very small, so to properly compare e.g. Inconsolata with most other fonts, I’d have Inconsolata at 18 while my default was 17.
Its so dependent on font size (or more accurately PPI) that its hard to pick. On my current monitor my favorite Berkely Mono looks thin and hard to read unless I bump up the size higher than I'd like. But drag it over to a Retina screen and it looks fantastic.
Yes, most (if not all) new fonts nowadays seem to assume (very) high DPI and also have no hinting for low DPI. Every time I check a font that is praised here, it looks terrible at small point sizes.
I saw that some of the fonts had a ligature for === making it a long congruence sign instead of three equals signs, and I avoided those like the plague.
This time I ran it and got “DM Mono”, which went neck-and-neck against Hack. I’m not sure this was in the lineup last time, but it’s a really nice typeface!
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On the site's home page, the posts include a "" link which points to the post itself. I'm guessing the reason the posts don't link to themselves is another hold-out from the old-school: a page linking to itself was typically considered bad practice.
0: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed-fonts/releases
1: https://zed.dev/
I got Nanum Gothic Coding, but couldn’t find a good site to compare it with Iosevka side by side to check if they are similar
For three years have I now suffered, with 0 reaction. Three years. I haven't lost faith though... one day, someone will say "what the hell kind of font is that? why would you do that?", and I will chuckle.
[0]: https://github.com/jesusmgg/comic-shanns-mono
That said, it does make me wonder about two alternative approaches:
A) When a screenshot is detected, change the font, produce the screenshot and then change it back. You could probably do this on a per-application basis with something like AutoHotKey, or there's probably a deeper way of doing it on the OS-level.
B) Use the magic of AI. Given it's monospaced, you could probably modify an image model to replace the relevant font of the screenshot.
Of course, these approaches may compromise your artistic integrity.
I honestly love it. It's round and cheerful, and suits my crappy vision quite well.
[0]: https://dtinth.github.io/comic-mono-font/
https://github.com/wayou/comic-mono-font
I've tested all Ubuntu/MacOS/Windows Fonts, as well as Operator Mono, Fira Code and most of the other famed fonts.
But Comic Mono is one hell of a drug. It's beautiful and legible.
I work from home and only my wife has noticed...she thinks I'm crazy.
[1] https://tosche.net/fonts/comic-code
So: plenty professional and serious!
https://github.com/rendello/templeos_font
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29010443
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29028660
And to bypass the blogspam: https://www.codingfont.com/
[0] https://typogram.co/blog/about-us/
Besides no proprietary fonts (I use Cascadia Code currently… actually this is also open, maybe only google font fonts?), some other things I wish were different:
1. Some alternative to the one-strike tournament. I got Space Mono vs Oxygen Mono in the first round, and liked both of those a lot more than most others. Oxygen won, but Space would have won against most other fonts.
2. Independent sizes. I don’t like tiny fonts (HN is at 220% zoom for me), some of these fonts are very small, so to properly compare e.g. Inconsolata with most other fonts, I’d have Inconsolata at 18 while my default was 17.
I saw that some of the fonts had a ligature for === making it a long congruence sign instead of three equals signs, and I avoided those like the plague.
I was surprised that both Fira Code and Fira Mono were options, that was a bit cheeky.
This time I ran it and got “DM Mono”, which went neck-and-neck against Hack. I’m not sure this was in the lineup last time, but it’s a really nice typeface!