Pick a good textarea font.

[lgarron]

I don't think monospace is appropriate here (@qqwref once spent a whilte trying to convince me of this).

Still, I think we can do better than Helvetica. (In particular, primes could be more prominent.)

[lgarron]

I've been using Verdana for a while, and I like it. The spacing is pretty good, and I like the simple capital Rs.

Helvetica

Verdana

[lgarron]

Futura. I kind of like it, but:

• Too bold
• Some letters are too spikey (e.g. look at the top of the capital letter M).

[lgarron]

Start a speedsolving.com thread about the best cubing font?

[jettero]

I definitely think monospace is required for the text area. It's the only way you can get the comments to line up neatly in a right margin style.

No real reason you'd have to agree with me … I plan to maintain my own fork. Even if it's just .move { font-family: monospace; } rebased to the top, I'm happy.

What are the reasons for not using a monospace font? I can't think of any.

[lgarron]

I definitely think monospace is required for the text area. It's the only way you can get the comments to line up neatly in a right margin style.

If you want to be able to align comments, I would rather support a table view:

R' D' F	Cross
L U L'	F2L
R U R' U R U2 R'	LL

That also works when comments need to wrap. Indenting comments in monospace is very likely to make them wrap if you don't provide better tools.

I've wanted to implement that in v2 for a long time.

[lgarron]

What are the reasons for not using a monospace font? I can't think of any.

You replace all the kerning of natural reading with something designed for code. This is especially noticeable for ', which is very common in cubing.

No real reason you'd have to agree with me … I plan to maintain my own fork. Even if it's just .move { font-family: monospace; } rebased to the top, I'm happy.

I would recommend using a custom page styling browser extension in that case. ;-)