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

This is surprisingly not bad...

[–] Xuerian@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] thiccdiccnicc@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That looks sooooooo nice

Who knew? Just make it monospace.

[–] lysy@szmer.info 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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[–] ngoomie@pawb.social 4 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

[–] robbieIRL@sh.itjust.works 4 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

[–] 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.

[–] sazey@fedia.io 4 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 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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[–] owiller@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] nlm@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

Need to give this a go at work tomorrow!

[–] Faceman2K23@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago

Saving that font for my e-reader tablet.

Suuuper legible and fast to read.

[–] lysy@szmer.info 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Seriously, for coding I use daily Fantasque Sans Mono, which is based on Comic Sans. I love it.

[–] 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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[–] Bransonb3@lemmy.world 3 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 3 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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[–] technologenesis@programming.dev 3 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?

[–] RomanRoy@lemmy.world 3 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

[–] crimso@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] 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.

[–] Tin@beehaw.org 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.

[–] Raf@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] basil@sarcasm.stream 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] little_hoarse@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[–] HamsterRage@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Does it support ligatures??

[–] Scheissberg@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

I'd love to see someone code in the actual Comic Sans rather than the awesomely adapted Comic Mono. Indentation be damned!

[–] sujeewa@discuss.tchncs.de 2 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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[–] ts52@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] kresten@feddit.dk 2 points 1 year ago

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

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