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by regus 75 days ago
As I get older I prefer the text on my screen to be bigger than usual. Most websites tend to have super small fonts for some reason.

For coding I much prefer fonts that are bold and easier to read. Who actually likes these whimsical cursive looking comments or super thin looking fonts?

I ended up with "Roboto Mono" btw.

2 comments

Same here.. Overpass Mono was chosen for me, but several were quite close.

Also, black backgrounds require bolder fonts.

uh isn't the font size kinda independant from the font style?
Not entirely. The font "size" is the height of each character, not the width they take up or the stroke thickness. So some fonts will have narrow characters & display more characters horizontally than fonts with wider characters.
It is, but noone serious has time for appreciating latest trends in web typography, so we just hit the reader mode on load.