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!

  • V ‎ ‎
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    721 year ago

    I…don’t hate it? Why am I not horribly offended by this?

    • @[email protected]
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      271 year ago

      Same thoughts here. Went in expecting to hate it instantly and found that it sort of looked nice.

    • @[email protected]
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      111 year ago

      I think some of the reason might be that Comic sans used to have really bad kerning. But with a mono font it is not really an issue.

    • @[email protected]
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      51 year ago

      Yeah, this has me intrigued. May try it out in vscode just for a lark. Possibly actually will be easier to read with some nice shapes…

  • @[email protected]
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    381 year ago

    Oh no, I was ready to pick up my pitchfork, but that is super legible. Brb, I need to go take a look at myself in the mirror…

    • bermuda
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      101 year ago

      Definitely makes sense considering some dyslexic people have found it helpful in terms of legibility

      • @a_statistician
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        21 year ago

        Yep, it shares a lot of characteristics with fonts like Dyslexie, but without some of the more irritating (but helpful) gravity additions that throw off non-dyslexic readers and/or just look odd.

        • @[email protected]
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          21 year ago

          The additions throw off some dyslexic readers too, I’ve always had an even harder time reading purpose-built dyslexia fonts. Comic mono is top tier for me, it still looks stupid but the readability is incredible.

  • @[email protected]
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    221 year ago

    I came here to get mad but comic sans monospaced looks really good. I’m impressed. I might switch my IDE to this.

      • @[email protected]
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        21 year ago

        Looks to me like it has a ligature that visually appears as two separate characters but are spaced to be close together. See the <= in the code examples on the page.

    • Deebster
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      31 year ago

      Reducing the font-size makes it look pretty great.

  • @[email protected]
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    211 year ago

    First of all, how dare you

    Second of all, how dare you

    Third of all, at least it isn’t papyrus

  • @[email protected]
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    211 year ago

    This looks way better than it has any right to, I expected to hate this. Now I’m looking at fonts again reevaluating some shit

  • PierreKanazawa
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    1 year ago

    I mean Comic Mono is mentally relaxing and legible so great font of choice

  • Jim P.
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    151 year ago

    If you like that, check out Recursive Sans & Mono

    I wouldn’t pick it over Fira Code but it has a bit of whimsy to it that reminds me of Comic Mono.

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      Title is misleading, it’s a monospaced derivative of Comic Sans that’s actually nice, not actual Conic Sans.

        • @[email protected]
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          21 year ago

          I miss RES’s context feature now. Thank god this thread wasn’t too long, so I was able to find my comment you replied to in it in a reasonable amount of time.

  • nii236
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    121 year ago

    Wow, poor comic sans didn’t deserve all the hate it got

  • pushka
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    121 year ago

    This is cute~! I hated comic-sans when seeing it on lots of tacky corporate and school signs etc. but recently I ironically and then unironically fell in love with its whacky-ness, bold-ness and readability,

    A few years ago my fav. font became PT Mono, from Google Fonts - cyrilic compatible, it has these angular edges, and swoopy circle curves, so cute <3

    THEN there was this font printed on 2011 Pentax Q cameras and lenses that I loved, and couldn’t find the original, but there was something very similar, STALKER1 and related similar fonts

    PT MONO

    STALKER1

  • @[email protected]
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    111 year ago

    Friendship ended with font gatekeeping and dogpiling, accessibility is my new best friend