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I've been using Proggy Tiny for literally over a decade, I wonder if there's any font that can beat it for me.

Does anyone know of an easy way to compare two typefaces and see how they look when rendering source code?

As mentioned earlier in the thread: http://s9w.github.io/font_compare/

Thanks, I've seen that before, but it doesn't list Proggy Tiny, and just shows the characters in the font in a line and not how they'd appear in source code. It's hard to discern things like line height, compare the fonts at equivalent sizes, or see how they'd actually look in source code.

It also has anti-aliasing enabled on fonts that support it, which I personally hate. Proggy Tiny is designed to be pixel perfect at small sizes. MonteCarlo looked similar to Proggy Tiny, but when I typed MonteCarlo's example[1] into my editor and compared to Proggy Tiny[2] I really disliked it. That shows why you really need to see it with real source code in an editor at the same size.

Thanks for the link though, it's a good resource to see some of what's available!

[1] http://www.bok.net/MonteCarlo/java-example.html

[2] http://imgur.com/no8txTq

Edit: totally didn't notice it has a compare mode, and that you can change sizes and turn anti-aliasing off. This thing is sweet!

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