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It's 99% JetBrains Mono from my quick comparison. I can barely see the difference except for $&# and a few others.

LE: Ok, so it's a little more different that JetBrains Mono as this comparison shows https://claude.ai/artifact/HPiALZ7AZ2f5FxSZtcTdNa

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Setting aside the other ways AI is upending society, I absolutely love how we can all share and build on simple artifacts and micro-apps now that can be built entirely from our brain's vision expressed in plain English.

That's a really fun tool.

It's not just a little different. it's VERY different. it's much more boxy, and letters are closer in height, especially noticeable in uppercase next to lowercase. I would say it's less readable than Jetbrains Mono.

Lower case 'l' even extends above upper case 'G'. it missed with my brain xD

Overall it's really pretty but not a daily driver.

Eg the `m` is much different: it has the wonderful short middle descender, taken from Ubuntu Mono.

Your comparison says the `m` is 28% different. It's completely different. I don't know what the 28% is supposed to represent (yes, the difference in the area taken, but that's meaningless).

It's not completely different. Look at other fonts (e.g. comic sans) to see what "completely" means. Norwand is a little wider and the middle line is shorter. 28% seems a fairly accurate measurement. It's almost one third different for just the middle descender.

The shorter middle line gives it a completely different character. Comparing how many pixels are different is meaningless.

I will not voluntarily look at Comic Sans, but thank you for the recommendation!

What? https://github.com/jaxvanyang/comic-shanns-nerd is a great font for coding, I personally find it more readable at smaller sizes compared to the other popular ones like JetBrains mono

It is like saying Arial is the same as Verdana. These fonts are at a glance similar but different.

Your comparison does show a good amount of differences

Love the A/B tool. Must say, I'm a bit more charmed by Nordwand, even though I always use Jetbrains.

Same here. I saw it and didn't really care for it at first, but after using the blink feature on that site, I kinda think I like it better than Jetbrains. I may have to give it a a try. That site is really cool.

I prefer the JetBrains Mono choice for "3", where JetBrains Mono uses the shape that is recommended for writing a "3" that cannot be easily morphed into another digit, like "8".

Why do the < and > for Nordwand look so different in your tool from the screenshot in the github repo?

yea you’re right

"93% different"

this refers to a single character

Average is 33% different, which is still a far cry from 99% similar.

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