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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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[-] thiccdiccnicc@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago

That looks sooooooo nice

Who knew? Just make it monospace.

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[-] roo@lemmy.one 4 points 2 years ago

"Serious tho, Comic sans" four words I didn't expect today. Thanks for the heads up on legibility as a small font.

[-] ngoomie@pawb.social 4 points 2 years 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

[-] terribleplan@lemmy.nrd.li 4 points 2 years ago

This is surprisingly not bad...

[-] Xuerian@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

I've been using it for a while. It's pretty great.

[-] s900mhz@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago

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

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[-] sazey@fedia.io 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

So despite the hate Comic Sans gets, squiggly fonts make it easier for dyslexics to read. Non-dyslexics can experience a similar effect by reading a book in serif then a non-serif font. I hate Comic Sans too lol but do what makes your life easier.

[-] skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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[-] basil@sarcasm.stream 3 points 2 years ago

Yeah, I'm surprised how much I like the look of this. I'm into it.

[-] Tin@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years 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 2 years ago

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

[-] crimso@beehaw.org 3 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.

[-] robbieIRL@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years 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

[-] bluemoose@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Ngl that is really easy on the eyes. Dammit.

[-] nlm@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago

Need to give this a go at work tomorrow!

[-] neia 3 points 2 years ago

If the font weight were ratcheted down a little, I'd be pretty happy with it.

[-] Faceman2K23@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 years ago

Saving that font for my e-reader tablet.

Suuuper legible and fast to read.

[-] kksgandhi@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago
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[-] little_hoarse@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

[-] happy_piwakawaka@lemmy.nz 3 points 2 years ago

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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[-] janAkali@lemmy.one 3 points 2 years 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.

[-] RomanRoy@lemmy.world 3 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

[-] HamsterRage@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

Does it support ligatures??

[-] nii236@lemmy.jtmn.dev 2 points 2 years ago

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

[-] kresten@feddit.dk 2 points 2 years ago

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

[-] Scheissberg@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

I'd love to see someone code in the actual Comic Sans rather than the awesomely adapted Comic Mono. Indentation be damned!

[-] sparky@lemmy.pt 2 points 2 years ago

You absolute madman

[-] ts52@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 years ago

Wow, that's kind of amazing. I'll be trying it out now. Thanks!

[-] lindgrenj6@fosstodon.org 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

omfg this is the perfect demo font

[-] worldofbirths@lemmy.world 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

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