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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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[–] crimso@beehaw.org 4 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.

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

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

[–] Gork@beehaw.org 3 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.

[–] roo@lemmy.one 3 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.

[–] 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.

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

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

[–] 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.

[–] Kajo@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I tried that this morning at work, as a joke.

It was still there when I got off.

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[–] kksgandhi@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] bluemoose@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Ngl that is really easy on the eyes. Dammit.

[–] aponigricon@beehaw.org 3 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.

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[–] domi@lemmy.secnd.me 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] robbieIRL@sh.itjust.works 3 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

[–] 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

[–] little_hoarse@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] nii236@lemmy.jtmn.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Whatever helps you to the path of a 10x developer, my friend.

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

That's actually not bad.

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

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

[–] Bransonb3@lemmy.world 2 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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[–] thiccdiccnicc@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That looks sooooooo nice

Who knew? Just make it monospace.

[–] jamesj999@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

At least you’re using a monospaced one…

[–] kneekon@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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...

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[–] lysy@szmer.info 2 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.

[–] terribleplan@lemmy.nrd.li 2 points 1 year ago

This is surprisingly not bad...

[–] technologenesis@programming.dev 2 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?

[–] worldofbirths@lemmy.world 2 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

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

Does it support ligatures??

[–] 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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