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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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[–] aponigricon 7 points 1 year 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.

[–] madmaurice@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago

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

[–] basil@sarcasm.stream 7 points 1 year ago

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

[–] ngoomie@pawb.social 7 points 1 year ago

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

[–] someguy@lemmyland.com 7 points 1 year ago

Surprisingly readable. Some of the letters are really close to each other, and multiple capitals together look odd. I will try it 🙂

[–] kksgandhi 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] roo@lemmy.one 6 points 1 year ago

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

[–] technologenesis@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

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[–] nlm 6 points 1 year ago

Need to give this a go at work tomorrow!

[–] RomanRoy@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

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

[–] sazey@fedia.io 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[–] skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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[–] robbieIRL@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year 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

[–] Faceman2K23@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago

Saving that font for my e-reader tablet.

Suuuper legible and fast to read.

[–] jamesj999@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

At least you’re using a monospaced one…

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[–] neia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Gork 4 points 1 year ago

Um, can I get this to work as a default Lemmy typeface? I love it.

I also like Comic Sans in general, what can I say I guess that makes me a giant Eldritch tentacle monster.

[–] Bransonb3@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year 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.

[–] Raf@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year 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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[–] terribleplan@lemmy.nrd.li 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is surprisingly not bad...

[–] Xuerian 2 points 1 year ago

I've been using it for a while. It's pretty great.

[–] Dream_state@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

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

[–] happy_piwakawaka@lemmy.nz 4 points 1 year 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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[–] lackthought@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago

someone at work was sharing their screen and I think they were using this font

it was pretty jarring to me, but if it helps people read easier that's cool!

[–] ts52@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago

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

[–] chonkybirb@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] Tin 3 points 1 year 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.

[–] False@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

That's actually not bad.

[–] sujeewa@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

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[–] worldofbirths@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year 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

[–] little_hoarse@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[–] janAkali@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year 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.

[–] arcticpiecitylights 2 points 1 year ago

Goddamn it...

installs the font on his computer

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