{"id":46344,"date":"2025-01-07T15:36:39","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T20:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=46344"},"modified":"2025-01-07T15:36:39","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T20:36:39","slug":"coding-font-selection-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/07\/coding-font-selection-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"Coding Font Selection Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sixcolors.com\/link\/2024\/10\/choose-your-coding-font\/\">Jason Snell<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/sixcolors.com\/link\/2024\/10\/choose-your-coding-font\/\">\n<p>Leo Laporte pointed me to the very clever site <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codingfont.com\">Coding Font<\/a>, which lets you step through a tournament-style bracket of monospace fonts to find the one you like the best. Unfortunately it&rsquo;s lacking a bunch of the options mentioned above, but if you&rsquo;ve ever been curious about switching up your terminal font, it&rsquo;s worth a go.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2024\/12\/24\/coding-font-selection-tournament\">John Gruber<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@daringfireball\/113709247532522207\">Mastodon<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2024\/12\/24\/coding-font-selection-tournament\">\n<p>I highly recommend you disable showing the font names while you play, to avoid any bias toward fonts you already think you have an opinion about. But no matter how many times I play, I always get the same winner: Adobe&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/adobe-fonts\/source-code-pro\">Source Code Pro<\/a>. My second favorite in this tournament is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibm.com\/plex\/\">IBM Plex Mono<\/a>. The most conspicuous omission: <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/intel\/intel-one-mono\">Intel One Mono<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>This was fun, but it doesn&rsquo;t have any of the Apple fonts. Currently, I&rsquo;m using SF Mono in Xcode and Menlo in BBEdit, Tower, Mail, EagleFiler, and MarsEdit. I don&rsquo;t think I&rsquo;ll be changing, but I was surprised to find that, in the tournament at least, I liked <a href=\"https:\/\/fonts.google.com\/noto\/specimen\/Noto+Sans+Mono\">Noto Sans Mono<\/a>. It kind of reminds me of Monaco, but with more square serifs.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/18\/use-sf-mono-outside-of-terminal-and-xcode\/\">Use SF Mono Outside of Terminal and Xcode<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/10\/menlo\/\">Menlo<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/17\/top-10-programming-fonts\/\">Top 10 Programming Fonts<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/27\/clearing-the-font-cache\/\">Clearing the Font Cache<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2003\/03\/16\/fonts_in_icab_and_safari\/\">Fonts in iCab and Safari<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2002\/10\/14\/profont_in_jaguars_termin\/\">ProFont in Jaguar&rsquo;s Terminal<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Snell: Leo Laporte pointed me to the very clever site Coding Font, which lets you step through a tournament-style bracket of monospace fonts to find the one you like the best. Unfortunately it&rsquo;s lacking a bunch of the options mentioned above, but if you&rsquo;ve ever been curious about switching up your terminal font, it&rsquo;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2025-01-07T20:36:41Z","apple_news_api_id":"d2b7fe1c-e0c4-47c2-8d67-c4bf0500f6d8","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2025-01-07T20:36:42Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A0rf-HODER8KNZ8S_BQD22A","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[133,30,2598,71],"class_list":["post-46344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-font","tag-mac","tag-macos-15-sequoia","tag-programming"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46345,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46344\/revisions\/46345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}