Programming Fonts – Test Drive

Re:Programming Fonts – Test Drive by cpeterso on Monday January 21, 2019 @02:03AM (#18958277)

I'd like to see an elimination tournament of these so you can two fonts head-to-head and vote for your preferred until you discover you favorite.

Identifont is a similar system. It uses a twenty-questions style format to identify an unknown font.

http://www.identifont.com/

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Re:Programming Fonts – Test Drive by AlphaWeaver on Monday January 21, 2019 @08:44AM (#18960311)

I actually did a quick hack a few weeks ago to build an "elimination" style tool for making decisions. The code is here [0] and the tool is here [1]. Might be able to adapt it to something like this.

[0]: https://github.com/weaversam8/bracket-based-decision-making

[1]: https://bracket-based-decision-making.firebaseapp.com/

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Re:Programming Fonts – Test Drive by klageveen on Monday January 21, 2019 @02:57AM (#18958568)

That's a really cool idea. You know, the website is on GitHub, if anyone wants to contribute a PR I'm all ears ;)

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Re:Programming Fonts – Test Drive by rbanffy on Monday January 21, 2019 @07:18AM (#18959843)

We all know 3270 will win ;-)

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Re:Programming Fonts – Test Drive by ___alt on Monday January 21, 2019 @10:23AM (#18960930)

That would be neat, browsing through several dozen fonts to find the right pick is a bit overwhelming, although one can argue it's a self-imposed burden.

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