I have a confession to make... I code in Comic Sans

https://lemmy.world/post/86663

I have a confession to make... I code in Comic Sans - Lemmy.world

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!

Whoever owns this whole server can you ban this guy
Blatant trolling should be banned! Get the pitchforks everyone! :P
I see serifs. You're a phony! A great big phony!
Comic Serif just doesn't have the same ring. Times New Circus?
I…don’t hate it? Why am I not horribly offended by this?
Same thoughts here. Went in expecting to hate it instantly and found that it sort of looked nice.
This has me rethinking like two decades of coding. wtf.
Yeah, this has me intrigued. May try it out in vscode just for a lark. Possibly actually will be easier to read with some nice shapes...
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.
I feel the same way. I hate that Iike it and am now going to try it.
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.
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...
Definitely makes sense considering some dyslexic people have found it helpful in terms of legibility
Yep, it shares a lot of characteristics with fonts like Dyslexie, but without some of the more irritating (but helpful) gravity additions that throw off non-dyslexic readers and/or just look odd.
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
Comic Code has ligatures, but it's not free. Still $30 well spent for me. https://tosche.net/fonts/comic-code
Oh nice!! When I get back to my PC I'll check that out
Nothing wrong with that. I personally couldn’t switch to that.

First of all, how dare you

Second of all, how dare you

Third of all, at least it isn't papyrus

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.

Tough, but ultimately fair
If the font weight were ratcheted down a little, I'd be pretty happy with it.
"Serious tho, Comic sans" four words I didn't expect today. Thanks for the heads up on legibility as a small font.
So despite the hate Comic Sans gets, squiggly fonts make it easier for dyslexics to read. Non-dyslexics can experience a similar by reading a book in serif then a non-serif font. I hate Comic Sans too lol but do what makes your life easier.
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.
Whatever helps you to the path of a 10x developer, my friend.
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.
I mean Comic Mono is mentally relaxing and eligible so great font of choice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zvWXT53puQ&t=201s&pp=ygUTd29sZmdhbmcgQ29taWMgU2Fucw%3D%3D
WolfgangsChannel also recently said he used a comics sans-lile font
Friendship ended with font gatekeeping and dogpiling, accessibility is my new best friend
That's actually not bad.
I'd love to see someone code in the actual Comic Sans rather than the awesomely adapted Comic Mono. Indentation be damned!
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

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

It's not bad, but I hate the braces.

Um, can I get this to work as a default Lemmy typeface? I love it.

I also like Comic Sans in general, what can I say I guess that makes me a giant Eldritch tentacle monster.

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
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!
Ubuntu font

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

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

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,

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

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.

GitHub - tonsky/FiraCode: Free monospaced font with programming ligatures

Free monospaced font with programming ligatures. Contribute to tonsky/FiraCode development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Shit I might just try this out. I hope my colleagues don’t notice.

someone at work was sharing their screen and I think they were using this font

it was pretty jarring to me, but if it helps people read easier that's cool!

It would surprisingly decent. Does it support ligatures?
Comic Mono doesn't, but further down someone linked to a version that does!

the very typeface you’ve been trained to recognize since childhood What does this mean? I feel like the one we learned from childhood would be Times New Roman since every teacher I had required that font.

I don't know how things are today but when I was a kid, some of my textbooks and many of my worksheets were in comic sans.
I'm from Balkans, most of our textbooks all the way to highschool were written in some type of Comic Sans. In highschool only English and Math textbooks used Comic Sans font rest of them used Calibri.
I came here to get mad but comic sans monospaced looks really good. I'm impressed. I might switch my IDE to this.
Reducing the font-size makes it look pretty great.
Yeah but does it have ligatures? That's my hard pass on coding fonts.
Looks to me like it has a ligature that visually appears as two separate characters but are spaced to be close together. See the <= in the code examples on the page.

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.

Recursive Sans & Mono

A highly flexible variable font for design, code, and UI.

*Really *dig that for a new-wave ui
Wow, that's kind of amazing. I'll be trying it out now. Thanks!