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Comic Mono – a legible monospace font
- falcolas 5y agoThe lower case ‘L’ and ‘1’ are too similar. Pass. I am guessing, but with the slightly tilted bars (like on the ‘e’), it probably looks pretty bad at low pixel densities.
- anonytrary 5y agoI think Ubuntu Mono does a great job with unmistakable characters: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Ubuntu+Mono?preview.text=!1lILjJT7toDO0Q2ZzsS56GB8&preview.text_type=custom https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Ubuntu+Mono?preview.text=!...
- TacticalCoder 5y agoThe lowercase 'l' as done in Ubuntu Mono (but it's not the only font doing that) is IMHO the best way to do lowercase 'l'. I'm not using Ubuntu Mono: I use a font I modified myself (sort of a mix between "Terminus" and "Monaco") and I do the lowercase 'l' as in Ubuntu Mono. I don't know which font did this type of lowercase 'l' first. I'm not surprised that a font doing a good job having unmistakable character picked that for 'l'. EDIT: funnily enough reading my post all the lowercase 'L' do look like an uppercase 'I'. Yup. Precisely what we want to avoid ; ) (that or looking like a '1' or like a pipe character).
- anonytrary 5y agoFunny, because the lowercase "L" was the first thing that came to mind about Ubuntu Mono for me :)
- Baeocystin 5y agoI fully agree, but man, that upper-case G just looks naked. Even a small hook to the right would be a big help.
- riffraff 5y agoAndalé mono had it in 1993. I have a feeling Monaco might have had it before but I have no proof. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andal%C3%A9_Mono https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andal%C3%A9_Mono
- dr_kiszonka 5y agoJulia Mono use a similar glyph. I quite fancy Julia Mono: https://juliamono.netlify.app/ https://juliamono.netlify.app/
- tyingq 5y ago"the very typeface you’ve been trained to recognize since childhood" Comic sans debuted in 1994, so, uh...no. Edit: Yes, I'm aware some people were children in this general time period :)
- CDSlice 5y agoThat’s 27 years ago, I’d say that quite a few people have lived their childhoods with Comic Sans as a common font.
- ORioN63 5y agoYeah, I'm from '94 - I've never seen a world without Comic Sans. Or Wingdings for that matter. That just triggered an old memory from very early me playing around with clip-art and transitions on PowerPoint.
- qbasic_forever 5y agoThe world before Comic Sans looked a lot like this to most people: https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/fontlist/font?ibm_vga_9x16 https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/fontlist/font?ibm_vga_... (IBM VGA 9x16 font, used by MSDOS and pretty much every PC from the mid 80s to 90s)
- chasil 5y agoActually, I thought that Hercules monochrome was a novel improvement on CGA. I never saw the IBM monochrome that shipped with the original PC. I certainly saw a lot of CGA. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercules_Graphics_Card https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercules_Graphics_Card https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_Graphics_Adapter https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_Graphics_Adapter
- endgame 5y agoI use this font in many places, and it gives people 2-3 years my junior nervous twitches. They associate it with events like "thing has gone wrong, time to reinstall windows".
- tardismechanic 5y agoI have been using this for a while now. I love it. Thanks for making it!
- anonytrary 5y agoThis font tries to increase cognitive ease by keeping the characters at the same width, but I don't think other popular monospace fonts aren't legible. I use Ubuntu Mono and have had no problems. I never understood why people use cursive fonts for code, which truly is illegible at times.
- h0l0cube 5y agoComic Sans has a reputation for being more accessible for dyslexic people, presumably because the glyphs are more easily distinguishable. (Though I wonder if making it monospace negates that advantage somewhat)
- speedgoose 5y agoIt has this reputation but I haven't found scientific evidence.
- 0-_-0 5y agoThere are specialized fonts for dyslexics, supported by research: https://opendyslexic.org/ https://opendyslexic.org/ https://opendyslexic.org/related-research-1 https://opendyslexic.org/related-research-1
- rozab 5y agoThat doesn't mean much. Other fonts designed for dyslexia have failed: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7188700/#!po=34.9057 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7188700/#!po=34... I am not going to check every study here, which are helpfully not hyperlinked, but every one I checked showed no effect at all. Kind of disingenuous I think. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5629233/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5629233/
- 0-_-0 5y agoI only checked the first one, which says: "Results demonstrate that the group of pupils with dyslexia read significantly more accurately, with fewer errors, when using OpenDyslexic font."
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- nemetroid 5y agoI use Comic Code[1], which i learned about on HN. My only complaint is that w and W are too similar, otherwise I’ve found it great. 1: https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/tabular-type-foundry/comic-code/ https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/tabular-type-foundry/comic-cod...
- speedgoose 5y agoI prefer Comic Code too. It's missing a few ligatures and it has a rendering bug on the T on windows with some sizes, but it's still my default font in vscode.
- _trampeltier 5y agoDoes it has ä, ö, ü (for german)?
- timonoko 5y agoYes. ß,å,ø,æ,ŋ,€ too.
- timonoko 5y agoCorrection: Those are remains of some other font which the author modified to make the Comicmono. So "ä" and "a" look different and the size is not exactly right.
- timonoko 5y agoI will probably fix this issue and the "l"-issue too. And add it my to my collection of Stolen Fonts: https://github.com/timonoko/fonts https://github.com/timonoko/fonts
- make3 5y agoWhy is the one only example of the font available in the README in an agressive diagonal? Just let me read the damn thing! This seems a bit ridiculous to me.
- krick 5y agoYeah, I did find that gimmicky too. But if you click on that screenshot, it leads to a webpage typed completely in that font, so you can properly admire that. Anyway, I'm genuinely surprised some people here don't treat that as a joke and are really using it for code editing, but whatever, anything is legit if you can read it. So I wouldn't complain about the diagonal screenshot either.
- shortlived 5y agoNo thanks. I’m so tired of yet another programmers font.
- kissgyorgy 5y agoWhy? Not looking at something, not trying out something or just nothing to do with something is the easiest thing in the world! Just ignore it!
- mark-r 5y agoI thought it was an essential trait of programmers to never be satisfied with something.
- Igelau 5y agoMy preferred editor font. No code should ever be taken so seriously that you wouldn't render it in Comic Mono.
- tardismechanic 5y agoThis. So much this :)
- benakiba 5y agoHow is this different than Consolas (currently default font in Visual Studio)?
- doubleunplussed 5y agoFor one, it's a completely different font. It being monospace is pretty much the only similarity.
- kbd 5y agoSurprised to see Fantasque Sans Mono[1] not mentioned yet. It's the best "comic"-style font I was aware of, which I used for coding/terminal for a long time (I currently use Victor Mono[2]). [1] https://github.com/belluzj/fantasque-sans/ https://github.com/belluzj/fantasque-sans/ [2] https://rubjo.github.io/victor-mono/ https://rubjo.github.io/victor-mono/
- cratermoon 5y agoSo this is just Comic Shanns (https://github.com/shannpersand/comic-shanns https://github.com/shannpersand/comic-shanns) with a couple of tweaks and a name change?
- ipsum2 5y agoYes? It's literally the first line of the repo description. > A legible monospace font... the very typeface you’ve been trained to recognize since childhood. This font is a fork of Shannon Miwa’s Comic Shanns (version 1).
- cratermoon 5y agoComic Shanns is already a legible monospace font. What value is added here?
- ur-whale 5y agomonofur ftw