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Seriously, though, Comic Sans was originally designed to be legible at the smallest possible font size, and the lack of hard lines makes it easier to read!

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

As long as it's a monospaced font I don't really care what the font is. (Wingdings excluded)

Might give it a try for a day.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Need to give this a go at work tomorrow!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I feel like a whole new world has opened its doors to me. I’m using this tomorrow at work.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

So despite the hate Comic Sans gets, squiggly fonts make it easier for dyslexics to read. Non-dyslexics can experience a similar effect by reading a book in serif then a non-serif font. I hate Comic Sans too lol but do what makes your life easier.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I unironically love Comic Mono. I am not dyslexic, I have good eyesight, but I feel like I can read code so much more easily with it versus most other monospaced fonts.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is surprisingly not bad...

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

It's really weird to me how Internet sometimes decide to hate on things just for the sake of it.
I wouldn't be using it myself, because I'm not a fan of hand-written style fonts. But, I see no problem with Comic Sans.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

A dude posted his neofetch on a Linux community and he uses fucking comic sans for his terminal. Probably will rot in hell

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Saving that font for my e-reader tablet.

Suuuper legible and fast to read.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's interesting that you added serifs and monospacing to a sans serif font. It's almost like comic sans but with all the things that make it comic sans removed.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Well it is Comic Mono after all, not Comic Sans Mono :)

[–] technologenesis 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

somehow this doesn't offend my eyes the way comic sans usually does, so I guess that's a win?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

The kerning in comic sans is atrocious.

This one is just monospaced.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Nothing wrong with that. I personally couldn’t switch to it though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

There was a YouTube programmer I used to watch called funfunfunction. He'd do a weekly video where he'd take a task, a framework, and a "handicap". One episode I remember someone suggested "comic sans lol" , which he set up, but it looked good

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Great to find another Comic Mono user! It's super easy to read. I've been using it in IDEs / Terminal for a while now.

I've even set up Stylus scripts to use it in GitHub and other sites as I find weird going back to the "normal" code fonts.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

"Serious tho, Comic sans" four words I didn't expect today. Thanks for the heads up on legibility as a small font.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I love Comic Mono. I use Comic Code - it's not free but it does support ligatures, which was worth it to me. The legibility boost is excellent.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

the very typeface you’ve been trained to recognize since childhood What does this mean? I feel like the one we learned from childhood would be Times New Roman since every teacher I had required that font.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't know how things are today but when I was a kid, some of my textbooks and many of my worksheets were in comic sans.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Does it support ligatures??

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

WolfgangsChannel also recently said he used a comics sans-lile font

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Goddamn it...

installs the font on his computer

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

You absolute madman

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

If the font weight were ratcheted down a little, I'd be pretty happy with it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Whatever helps you to the path of a 10x developer, my friend.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Might have to learn to code, love me some Comic sans

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Stumbled into this site while looking through other comments and apparently it was designed for the speech bubbles of a cartoon dog, not sure about the "legible at small sizes" claim - http://www.connare.com/whycomic.htm

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Seriously, for coding I use daily Fantasque Sans Mono, which is based on Comic Sans. I love it.

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