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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[–] 12 points 3 years ago (1 child)
  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago

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

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] [S] 2 points 3 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.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 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

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  • [–] 4 points 3 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.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    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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    [–] 4 points 3 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.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    ⚠️ I have reported this post to the proper authorities.

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    [–] 3 points 3 years ago

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

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  • [–] 3 points 3 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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    [–] 3 points 3 years ago (2 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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    [–] 3 points 3 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...

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  • [–] 3 points 3 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.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    Does it support ligatures??

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  • [–] 2 points 3 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

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    This is surprisingly not bad...

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    Ngl that is really easy on the eyes. Dammit.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 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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    [–] 2 points 3 years ago (2 children)

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

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    [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    Need to give this a go at work tomorrow!

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    At least you’re using a monospaced one…

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    [–] 1 point 3 years ago* (1 child)

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

    It was still there when I got off.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years 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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    [–] 1 point 3 years ago*

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

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    [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Saving that font for my e-reader tablet.

    Suuuper legible and fast to read.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    not a crime. i use it for my notepad, it looks weird but its fine for me.

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