I have a confession to make... I code in Comic Sans
A legible monospace font… the very typeface you’ve been trained to recognize since childhood
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!
I…don’t hate it? Why am I not horribly offended by this?
Same thoughts here. Went in expecting to hate it instantly and found that it sort of looked nice.
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.
This has me rethinking like two decades of coding. wtf.
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...
I feel the same way. I hate that Iike it and am now going to try it.
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...
I didn't want to wake up and start liking comic sans, God damn
I came here to get mad but comic sans monospaced looks really good. I'm impressed. I might switch my IDE to this.
Reducing the font-size makes it look pretty great.
Yeah but does it have ligatures? That's my hard pass on coding fonts.
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.
First of all, how dare you
Second of all, how dare you
Third of all, at least it isn't papyrus
Papyrus!!!!
i already do that while playing undertale so no losses
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
⚠️ I have reported this post to the proper authorities.
I mean Comic Mono is mentally relaxing and legible so great font of choice
At least you’re using a monospaced one…
The actual crime.
Why is it so bad?
I use emojis as variable names
Straight to jail
He's a witch!!!!!
Wow, poor comic sans didn’t deserve all the hate it got
I tried that this morning at work, as a joke.
It was still there when I got off.
Giggity.
I've coded with comic neue https://comicneue.com/ over the last few years. I would definitely recommend it.
I actually like this one. Does it have a monospace version?
That's amazing, I love it. Thanks for linking that!
Friendship ended with font gatekeeping and dogpiling, accessibility is my new best friend
Oh no now I want to build a whole Arch rice around that font.
...no that's not enough.
we need ComicSansOS
I used to use Ubuntu mono but now I use Jetbrains Mono but damn that comic sans looks better than I'd expect I might even give it a try!
Yeah, I'm surprised how much I like the look of this. I'm into it.
I see serifs. You're a phony! A great big phony!
Comic Serif just doesn't have the same ring. Times New Circus?
Clown Gothic
A dude posted his neofetch on a Linux community and he uses fucking comic sans for his terminal. Probably will rot in hell
I thought you actually meant the variable width font and I was about to report the post for gore.
My original intention was to come here and proclaim that you're a heretic. Having looked at it for a moment, I think that you're onto something here...
same here... just right now downloading the font, thinking if I don't at least give it a try, I'll forever wonder what it'd be like...
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, (I use a Samsung phone, and used PT Mono on the S9, but then future phones blocked custom fonts, so I used one hack-ey Comic-Sans version since my mono ones are so underground no one developed a phone hack - now any font is possible again so I'm using the one below )
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
These are awesome. I installed them alongside Comic Mono to feel less guilty. Thanks!
Whoever owns this whole server can you ban this guy. This is a crime to humanity
That looks sooooooo nice
Who knew? Just make it monospace.
Fantasque Sans Mono
It looks surprisingly decent! Does it support ligatures?
Comic Mono doesn't, but further down someone linked to a version that does!
I tried using Comic Mono for coding once after seeing this video about Comic Code. Honestly it was a pretty good experience.
You might like to try out Comic Code. Which is a redone version of Comic Mono but more in the style of Comic Neue, while including Programming Ligatures and Powerline etc. (though no logos etc from Nerdfonts so for terminal use you might still need to patch it with the careful option) I am using it and I like it a lot because it is so easy on the eyes like Lexend or Bookerly, but those two are not monospace.
One huge con though, because of the work the author did with redrawing all characters from scratch, it is a font that you have to pay for to use.
If you are still interested, check it out here: https://tosche.net/fonts/comic-code
Seriously, for coding I use daily Fantasque Sans Mono, which is based on Comic Sans. I love it.
Ohhhh that looks super interesting, i can see how that might build less fatigue
I will forever believe the comic sans hate is one of the internet's seemingly random circlejerks, like hating Imagine Dragons.
There were legitimate reasons from a design standpoint. It's badly balanced, the spacing is inconsistent...and it was everywhere.
Funny enough, I suspect what makes it a badly designed font might be why some people with dyslexia have an easier time reading with it. The badly balanced, poor spacing, probably made the letters in the font more distinguishable from one another.
If you (or anyone else that's interested) have the time, I think this article, "Why You Hate Comic Sans," goes over all of it pretty well.
I've heard that too - part of the issue with dyslexia is that it's easy to flip the letters around in your head, when none of the letters look the same, it makes it easier to read. Open Dyslexia is another one that does something similar.
I recently read a review of 1990s pop aesthetics, and it was probably intentional for reasons that resonate with us again. In the 90s, with the advent of omnipresent computers, organic, amateurish handwriting became really popular, and I think that's what comic sans is good at looking like.
Ngl that is really easy on the eyes. Dammit.
I run my real thoughts through a filter of chatgpt with instructions to make it work appropriate, edit font to comic sans, then vary the grayscale of each individual character before I send out emails to people I hate.
pfft! Real devs use wingdings!
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.
*Really *dig that for a new-wave ui
Ooh, I like that.
I feel like a whole new world has opened its doors to me. I’m using this tomorrow at work.
Comic Sans is actually really good for dyslexic people. It's why I usually use Comic Sans or Comic Neue when I print stuff out for my dad.
It's actually very common font for dyslexia
I've heard it's easier for people with dyslexia to read comic sans than most traditional fonts. I have never been diagnosed, but I've long suspected I have it, and I have always loved comic sans and always thought it was very easy to read. I never understood why everyone hates it so much.
You might already know there's a free font for dyslexic people called OpenDyslexic https://opendyslexic.org/
Every PR you make is going to be denied.
I don't care it shows up as my BitStream Sans Mono, I know you write in comic sans, DENIED.
Tough, but ultimately fair
I'm going to try this after trying Intel's new font that's supposed to be made to accommodate for vision impairment.
It's not bad, but I hate the braces.
They're certainly visible.
Same. That's what they look like when I draw them
I don't hate it? If this had ligatures, I would consider actually using it. I use Fira Code Retina for now but I'm always down for more options
Comic Code has ligatures, but it's not free. Still $30 well spent for me. https://tosche.net/fonts/comic-code
Oh nice!! When I get back to my PC I'll check that out
Blatant trolling should be banned! Get the pitchforks everyone! :P
No shame in doing that. I've respected Comic Sans ever since I heard it's great for people with Dyslexia.
I do it too when I use python. I just thought it was funny at one point and never changed it lol.
somehow this doesn't offend my eyes the way comic sans usually does, so I guess that's a win?
That actually looks pretty solid, will have to try it out.
I'm normally quite easy with fonts, for monospace it's usually Fira Code, but for certain tasks I like to use something different.
For instance, terminals usually it's ProFont, and for IRC it's Fantasque Sans. Fantasque Sans is kinda like Comic Sans.
Hmm... maybe I am a bit particular about fonts after all.
ProFont looks quite nice, pretty similar to Terminus Font that I usually use in terminals.
Surprisingly readable. Some of the letters are really close to each other, and multiple capitals together look odd. I will try it 🙂
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
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.
Saving that font for my e-reader tablet.
Suuuper legible and fast to read.
Shit I might just try this out. I hope my colleagues don’t notice.
