Comic Mono
dtinth.github.io
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!

    • Parsnip8904@beehaw.orgEnglish
      25·
      1 year ago

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

    • bobslaede@feddit.dkEnglish
      8·
      1 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.

    • qwacko@lemmy.nzEnglish
      7·
      1 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…

  • FiskFisk33@lemmy.oneEnglish
    37·
    1 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@beehaw.orgEnglish
      8·
      1 year ago

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

      • a_statistician@programming.devEnglish
        2·
        1 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.

        • Seraph089@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2·
          1 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.

  • mustyOrange@beehaw.orgEnglish
    24·
    1 year ago

    First of all, how dare you

    Second of all, how dare you

    Third of all, at least it isn’t papyrus

  • GraceGH@beehaw.orgEnglish
    21·
    1 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.

      • tias@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        3·
        1 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.

    • curiosityLynx@beehaw.orgEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

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

        • curiosityLynx@beehaw.orgEnglish
          2·
          1 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.

  • offthecrossbar@beehaw.orgEnglish
    18·
    1 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

  • pushka@beehaw.orgEnglish
    14·
    1 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, (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

      • Kajo [he/him] 🌈@beehaw.orgEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        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)

        • sujeewa@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          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!