I have a confession to make... I code in Comic Sans

KerPop47@lemmy.world to Programming@beehaw.org – 244 points – Comic Mono
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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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I tried that this morning at work, as a joke.

It was still there when I got off.

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After two days, what do you think?

Still using Comic Mono, I really like it.

I'd just like to slightly increase the letter spacing. Some portions of code felt a bit too dense. Maybe I'll try to tweak that after my vacation (as of today, 8 days without a computer)

Wonderful! I also installed Comic Mono yesterday kept it until now. So far so good. Yeah you are right, sometimes the code feels a little bit dense. If you do something about that, please give us an update.

BTW enjoy your vacation!

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

⚠️ I have reported this post to the proper authorities.

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

Conic Sans is the hyperbolic version of Comic Sans

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.

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.

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...

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

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.

I feel the same way. I hate that Iike it and am now going to try it.

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

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...

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

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.

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.

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.

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

I've taken to sending screenshots of things lately, and sending comic san terminal output would be epic trolling.

Haha you have to share how that goes! Today I changed my IDE over to comic mono and I’m waiting for the time someone wants to pair program. I won’t say a word about it, I’ll pretend everything is normal.

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.

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

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.

That's interesting, how can I make GitHub use Fira Code of that's what I'm used to?

I use an extension called Stylus which allows you to inject css into sites. I have a general rule that overrides the font-family for pre / code elements. There's a great community around it for custom styles for various sites - offering dark modes, decluttered views, alternative themes etc.

Need to give this a go at work tomorrow!

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.

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

Yeah, I'm surprised how much I like the look of this. I'm into it.

At least you’re using a monospaced one…

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

Comic Code is my go-to!

Yep, been using Comic Code for a while now - people hate me when they see me use it (and to be fair, outside of a terminal / IDE I wouldn't use regular Comic Sans either) but I suspect they've never actually sat down and glanced at it for a while.

Me too man! Been using it for over a year now, coming from Fira Code. It's actually a real enjoyable font to look at.

I unironically really like Comic Mono despite not super being a fan of Comic Sans (not cos it looks bad, I think it's actually really nice looking, just overused)

I keep thinking about switching to this font. I use Fira Code atm, and I'd miss the ligatures, but this genuinely looks a a lot more readable

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.

Look what you have done! I used Operator Mono for Italics. I kind of like this!

First of all, how dare you

Second of all, how dare you

Third of all, at least it isn't papyrus

That looks sooooooo nice

Who knew? Just make it monospace.

Wow, that's kind of amazing. I'll be trying it out now. Thanks!

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

Shit I might just try this out. I hope my colleagues don’t notice.

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.

I was addicted to coding with Comic Mono and ended up purchasing Comic Code. No regrets.

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

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.