Friendship ended with font gatekeeping and dogpiling, accessibility is my new best friend
this post was submitted on 13 Jun 2023
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I…don’t hate it? Why am I not horribly offended by this?
I feel the same way. I hate that Iike it and am now going to try it.
This has me rethinking like two decades of coding. wtf.
Same thoughts here. Went in expecting to hate it instantly and found that it sort of looked nice.
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.
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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
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WolfgangsChannel also recently said he used a comics sans-lile font
I thought you actually meant the variable width font and I was about to report the post for gore.
Blatant trolling should be banned! Get the pitchforks everyone! :P
Whoever owns this whole server can you ban this guy
nice, i’ve been using Comic Code for a couple years now which is similar
Although I might be interested in using the OP suggestion, I will draw the line at paying for this unholy combination :D ..... But we really, good efforts here
I didn't want to wake up and start liking comic sans, God damn
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.
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
"Serious tho, Comic sans" four words I didn't expect today. Thanks for the heads up on legibility as a small font.
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.
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.
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Whatever helps you to the path of a 10x developer, my friend.
Surprisingly readable. Some of the letters are really close to each other, and multiple capitals together look odd. I will try it 🙂
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 see serifs. You're a phony! A great big phony!
Comic Serif just doesn't have the same ring. Times New Circus?
Clown Gothic
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.
I mean Comic Mono is mentally relaxing and legible so great font of choice
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.
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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!
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
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
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
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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.
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Might have to learn to code, love me some Comic sans
Shit I might just try this out. I hope my colleagues don’t notice.
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.
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