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i already do that while playing undertale so no losses
I will forever believe the comic sans hate is one of the internet's seemingly random circlejerks, like hating Imagine Dragons.
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.
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.
I've coded with comic neue https://comicneue.com/ over the last few years. I would definitely recommend it.
That's amazing, I love it. Thanks for linking that!
Wow, poor comic sans didn’t deserve all the hate it got
A dude posted his neofetch on a Linux community and he uses fucking comic sans for his terminal. Probably will rot in hell
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.
I…don’t hate it? Why am I not horribly offended by this?
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.
Same thoughts here. Went in expecting to hate it instantly and found that it sort of looked nice.
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.
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.
I came here to get mad but comic sans monospaced looks really good. I'm impressed. I might switch my IDE to this.
Yeah but does it have ligatures? That's my hard pass on coding fonts.
Oh no now I want to build a whole Arch rice around that font.
...no that's not enough.
we need ComicSansOS
Friendship ended with font gatekeeping and dogpiling, accessibility is my new best friend
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...
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.
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
I feel like a whole new world has opened its doors to me. I’m using this tomorrow at work.
Look what you have done! I used Operator Mono for Italics. I kind of like this!
This is surprisingly not bad...
Does it support ligatures??
Ngl that is really easy on the eyes. Dammit.
Need to give this a go at work tomorrow!
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.
I was addicted to coding with Comic Mono and ended up purchasing Comic Code. No regrets.
Blatant trolling should be banned! Get the pitchforks everyone! :P
WolfgangsChannel also recently said he used a comics sans-lile font
First of all, how dare you
Second of all, how dare you
Third of all, at least it isn't papyrus
I tried that this morning at work, as a joke.
It was still there when I got off.
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
Saving that font for my e-reader tablet.
Suuuper legible and fast to read.