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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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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

i already do that while playing undertale so no losses

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I recently read a review of 1990s pop aesthetics, and it was probably intentional for reasons that resonate with us again. In the 90s, with the advent of omnipresent computers, organic, amateurish handwriting became really popular, and I think that's what comic sans is good at looking like.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

That's amazing, I love it. Thanks for linking that!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (4 children)

⚠️ I have reported this post to the proper authorities.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

There's also Dyslexie and a similar open source version: https://opendyslexic.org/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years 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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Holy man! If you ever do that. Please post! On unix porn as well!

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years 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...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (2 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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years 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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I feel like a whole new world has opened its doors to me. I’m using this tomorrow at work.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

This is surprisingly not bad...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

At least you’re using a monospaced one…

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

The actual crime.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Does it support ligatures??

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Ngl that is really easy on the eyes. Dammit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Need to give this a go at work tomorrow!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years 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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I was addicted to coding with Comic Mono and ended up purchasing Comic Code. No regrets.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

First of all, how dare you

Second of all, how dare you

Third of all, at least it isn't papyrus

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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

It was still there when I got off.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

undefined> Wingdings

After two days, what do you think?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Saving that font for my e-reader tablet.

Suuuper legible and fast to read.

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