Recommendation tool for font selection

chrissimpkins / codeface

Typefaces for source code beautification

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Recommendation tool for font selection #25

Closed chrissimpkins closed 9 years ago

chrissimpkins commented 9 years ago

From reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/39wz4l/hey_reddit_developers_what_is_your_favorite_text/cs7ufhy

A recommendation tool of that calls out specific and useful character examples might be nice to see. Do you like this 'l' character or that one? or "here are pairs of confusing letters: 'Il' and 'O0'" - pick which pair you like the best..."

larsenwork commented 9 years ago

Personal preference but I'd say zooming in on examples can be a bit misleading and not really that relevant - I'd rather have a filterable preview of code examples.

So the user can set a couple of criteria like:

Pixel font
Semi-condensed
Slashed zero
Normal sized operators
Haskell ligatures
Supports all latin languages, cyrillic, greek

with live updates so only fonts meeting you criteria is shown.

p8952 commented 9 years ago

You say in CONTRIBUTING.md:

I will generate the gallery image and take care of the rest.

Is this process automated? If so could it be put into the repo? It would be useful for generating images for use in a suggestion tool.

chrissimpkins commented 9 years ago

100% manual... I am generating images from the samplecode directory with a screenshot tool until I can find a better solution...

larsenwork commented 9 years ago

Why not just show the fonts on a webpage? It's what i did with monoid and feedback on actually having a live version instead of just images has been great.

chrissimpkins commented 9 years ago

It's a work in progress :) The repository is 48 hours old... I completely agree that is the next step. Interested in helping with this?

chrissimpkins commented 9 years ago

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