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!
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.
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.
There’s also Dyslexie and a similar open source version: https://opendyslexic.org/
Wow, poor comic sans didn’t deserve all the hate it got
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Title is misleading, it’s a monospaced derivative of Comic Sans that’s actually nice, not actual Conic Sans.
Conic Sans is the hyperbolic version of Comic Sans
I miss RES’s context feature now. Thank god this thread wasn’t too long, so I was able to find my comment you replied to in it in a reasonable amount of time.
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.
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!
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.
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 feel the same way. I hate that Iike it and am now going to try it.
I tried that this morning at work, as a joke.
It was still there when I got off.
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After two days, what do you think?
Still using Comic Mono, I really like it.
I’d just like to slightly increase the letter spacing. Some portions of code felt a bit too dense. Maybe I’ll try to tweak that after my vacation (as of today, 8 days without a computer)
Giggity.
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…
same here… just right now downloading the font, thinking if I don’t at least give it a try, I’ll forever wonder what it’d be like…
A dude posted his neofetch on a Linux community and he uses fucking comic sans for his terminal. Probably will rot in hell
somehow this doesn’t offend my eyes the way comic sans usually does, so I guess that’s a win?
This is surprisingly not bad…
I’ve been using it for a while. It’s pretty great.
Ngl that is really easy on the eyes. Dammit.
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.
That is so cool. I have no idea what to use it for but I just spent 10 minutes playing with the sliders.
Really dig that for a new-wave ui
