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89 pointsrangibaby14 comments

Take away the display of font names until you mouseover an image, and you have a fun game for font nerds! Could probably write that in a few lines of JS and apply with GreaseMonkey.

Few lines of CSS: https://userstyles.org/styles/119979/fonts-in-use-gamify

We already have that built in: click on the “stacked view” icon on the top right.

And the greatest source code font of all time is DejaVu (Sans) Mono. It's open-source: http://dejavu-fonts.org/

Ask 100 Programmers what their favourite font is and you get 100 answers :)

I'm a big fan of Proggy (the clean / slashed zero / bold puncutation one) combined with a light color on a dark background I can stuff as much code on my monitor as possible without straining my eyes. That way I believe to better oversee the structure of the code and need to scroll less, but each to his own.

Proggy: http://www.proggyfonts.net/download/

Programming font comparison: https://s9w.github.io/font_compare/

I thought everyone just used consolas!

Real coders use comic sans.

Real coders use Papyrus just as their ancient Egyptian forefathers before them.

EDIT: Free obfuscation security from over-the-shoulder glances for the real coders that code in Wingdings.

I would say our Egyptian forefathers used a font more along the lines of Wingdings than papyrus.

I tend to agree. But have you seen how horribly it renders on Windows 10? It's a travesty...at least until every screen gets to "retina" resolution.

I've been receiving a weekly email digest of the posts on "Fonts in Use" using ifttt.com for a long time already. Love their site.

How'd you set that up? Aka I'd love to copy you as that sounds like the ideal way to view this site.

I assume it's using one of the site's RSS feeds.

Great to hear! We have plans for a curated newsletter, but I’m glad people are already shoving things to their inbox via the RSS.

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