[HN Gopher] Text for Proofing Fonts (2020)
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       Text for Proofing Fonts (2020)
        
       Author : ColinWright
       Score  : 46 points
       Date   : 2024-06-29 13:34 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | KronisLV wrote:
       | I wonder what could be some good test sequences for monospaced
       | programming fonts, like:                 ,.:;!? 1234567890
       | {}[]()@#$%^&*-=_+\/<> Common issues: lLiI1oO0
       | 
       | (maybe throw in some ligature related stuff for those who enjoy
       | those in their fonts)
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       | I made a super basic site like that for some fonts that I enjoy,
       | but never really put that many in there:
       | https://fonts.kronis.dev/
       | 
       | Surprisingly Ubuntu Mono is also pretty good in most respects,
       | maybe I should add it, currently it's a split for either
       | Liberation Mono/Cousine or PT Mono for my programming font of
       | choice, here's a nice font chooser, tournament style:
       | https://www.codingfont.com/ or just a look at bunch of fonts
       | https://www.programmingfonts.org/
       | 
       | Not to detract from the article itself, I just stare a lot at
       | fonts while doing programming.
        
         | zX41ZdbW wrote:
         | oO08 iIlL1| g9qCGQ ~-+=>
         | 
         | I use it here: https://alexey-milovidov.github.io/font-
         | selector/ (in the "Textarea" examples).
        
       | drsopp wrote:
       | I guess proper words for proofing cover most use cases, but you
       | just don't know how a font might be used; what sequence of
       | characters it will be exposed to. I found it useful in my
       | proofing to run every character between every pair in the
       | character set like this
       | 
       | for a:
       | 
       | aabcdefgh
       | 
       | aabcdefgh
       | 
       | abacdefgh
       | 
       | abcadefgh
       | 
       | abcdaefgh
       | 
       | abcdeafgh
       | 
       | abcdefagh
       | 
       | abcdefgah
       | 
       | abcdefgha
       | 
       | If there is a problem with kerning for %a or a% pairs, it will
       | stick out in this list.
        
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