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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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[–] vanderbilt@beehaw.org 64 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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

[–] Parsnip8904@beehaw.org 20 points 1 year ago

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

[–] ResidualBit@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago

This has me rethinking like two decades of coding. wtf.

[–] bobslaede@feddit.dk 8 points 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.

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[–] FiskFisk33@lemmy.one 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.org 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

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[–] mustyOrange@beehaw.org 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

First of all, how dare you

Second of all, how dare you

Third of all, at least it isn't papyrus

[–] CCatMan@lemmy.one 8 points 1 year ago

Papyrus!!!!

[–] offthecrossbar@beehaw.org 19 points 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

[–] GlassHalfHopeful@beehaw.org 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

⚠️ I have reported this post to the proper authorities.

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[–] GraceGH@beehaw.org 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I came here to get mad but comic sans monospaced looks really good. I'm impressed. I might switch my IDE to this.

[–] DM_Gold@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah but does it have ligatures? That's my hard pass on coding fonts.

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[–] PierreKanazawa@fedia.io 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[–] solidarity@suguha.net 15 points 1 year ago

I didn't want to wake up and start liking comic sans, God damn

[–] Lanthanae@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh no now I want to build a whole Arch rice around that font.

...no that's not enough.

we need ComicSansOS

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[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I see serifs. You're a phony! A great big phony!

[–] duncesplayed@lemmy.one 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Comic Serif just doesn't have the same ring. Times New Circus?

[–] bermuda@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

Clown Gothic

[–] jimp@beehaw.org 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If you like that, check out Recursive Sans & Mono

I wouldn't pick it over Fira Code but it has a bit of whimsy to it that reminds me of Comic Mono.

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[–] SpezCanLigmaBalls@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Whoever owns this whole server can you ban this guy. This is a crime to humanity

[–] Kajo@beehaw.org 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

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

It was still there when I got off.

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[–] sjolsen@beehaw.org 12 points 1 year ago

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

[–] jherazob@beehaw.org 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] NattyNatty2x4@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I will forever believe the comic sans hate is one of the internet's seemingly random circlejerks, like hating Imagine Dragons.

[–] mifuyne@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] nii236@lemmy.jtmn.dev 11 points 1 year ago

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

[–] RagingNerdoholic@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago

I thought you actually meant the variable width font and I was about to report the post for gore.

[–] brunofin@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago

I used to use Ubuntu mono but now I use Jetbrains Mono but damn that comic sans looks better than I'd expect I might even give it a try!

[–] oofinsprouts@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've coded with comic neue https://comicneue.com/ over the last few years. I would definitely recommend it.

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[–] wit@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It looks surprisingly decent! Does it support ligatures?

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[–] pushka@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

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[–] kneekon@beehaw.org 8 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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[–] YourNewestMaster@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Blatant trolling should be banned! Get the pitchforks everyone! :P

[–] 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

[–] RIPandTERROR@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

I run my real thoughts through a filter of chatgpt with instructions to make it work appropriate, edit font to comic sans, then vary the grayscale of each individual character before I send out emails to people I hate.

[–] lysy@szmer.info 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

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[–] KerryAnnCoder@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Comic Sans is actually really good for dyslexic people. It's why I usually use Comic Sans or Comic Neue when I print stuff out for my dad.

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[–] domi@lemmy.secnd.me 6 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.

[–] owiller@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] Raiden11X@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't hate it? If this had ligatures, I would consider actually using it. I use Fira Code Retina for now but I'm always down for more options

[–] Tin@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Comic Code has ligatures, but it's not free. Still $30 well spent for me. https://tosche.net/fonts/comic-code

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[–] confusedwiseman@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

pfft! Real devs use wingdings!

[–] ericjmorey@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm going to try this after trying Intel's new font that's supposed to be made to accommodate for vision impairment.

https://github.com/intel/intel-one-mono

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[–] someguy@lemmyland.com 6 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 🙂

[–] Penguincoder@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] KerPop47@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Tough, but ultimately fair

[–] bluemoose@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Ngl that is really easy on the eyes. Dammit.

[–] thiccdiccnicc@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

That looks sooooooo nice

Who knew? Just make it monospace.

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