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Since we are talking about our favourite coding fonts, my personal choice is on Comic Code. I find it very easy to read and better than the other mono comic san

Since we are talking about our favourite coding fonts, my personal choice is on Comic Code. I find it very easy to read and better than the other mono comic sans fonts. https://tosche.net/fonts/comic-code https://tosche.net/fonts/comic-code

kbd 5y ago
Highly recommend Fantasque Sans Mono for a realistic take on the "comic-style" coding font - https://github.com/belluzj/fantasque-sans https://github.com/belluzj/fantasque-sans
- epolanski 5y ago
  It's weird but it feels extremely..welcoming and non-intimidating. I'm gonna give it a spin tomorrow even though I love jetbrains mono.
- tmalsburg2 5y ago
  Seconded. It’s pleasantly playful but not so much as to distract. Very happy with it.
agrippanux 5y ago
Cascadia Code (free, from Microsoft) is surprisingly good. There is a clone of it on NerdFonts that adds more ligatures if that’s your jam.
- thayne 5y ago
  Maybe a bit pedantic, but nerdfont adds icons, not ligatures.
sebastianconcpt 5y ago
Oh god... I can't say if you're trolling or not.
- CharlesW 5y ago
  There might be something to it. To wit, Comic Sans is recommended by the British Dyslexia Association and the Dyslexia Association of Ireland. An American Institute of Graphic Arts post from last summer said that it might be the best font for dyslexics, given its "character disambiguation" and "variation in letter heights". While other fonts have been specifically designed to be read by people with dyslexia — Dyslexie and OpenDyslexic are two — they just don’t have the availability of Comic Sans. To hate on Comic Sans is “ableist", Hudgins argues, and doing so discounts the reading difficulties of millions of people. https://www.thecut.com/2020/08/the-reason-comic-sans-is-a-public-good.html https://www.thecut.com/2020/08/the-reason-comic-sans-is-a-pu...
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- StevePerkins 5y ago
  I honestly can't tell much difference between this, and the new "Cascadia Code" font that Microsoft recently put out. If they didn't put "Comic" in the name, then no one would likely think twice about it. On the other hand, the notoriety of that name probably helps them draw attention, too.
- speedgoose 5y ago
  I’m really using this font everyday since about two years. I remember setting the font in vscode and testing comic sans ms for fun, just to see. To my surprise it wasn’t that bad for me but of course not monospaced. So I looked at monospaced fonts inspired by comic sans ms, you have a few free ones on GitHub, and I ended up with comic code relatively quick.
nerdponx 5y ago
This is great. I already tend to go for "curly" fonts like this: Recursive Mono ("Casual" or "Duotone" presets), Fantasque Sans Mono, and Mononoki. MonoLisa seems to fall into a similar category. Is there a name for this style?

kbd 5y ago

Highly recommend Fantasque Sans Mono for a realistic take on the "comic-style" coding font - https://github.com/belluzj/fantasque-sans https://github.com/belluzj/fantasque-sans

epolanski 5y ago
It's weird but it feels extremely..welcoming and non-intimidating. I'm gonna give it a spin tomorrow even though I love jetbrains mono.
tmalsburg2 5y ago
Seconded. It’s pleasantly playful but not so much as to distract. Very happy with it.

agrippanux 5y ago

Cascadia Code (free, from Microsoft) is surprisingly good. There is a clone of it on NerdFonts that adds more ligatures if that’s your jam.

thayne 5y ago
Maybe a bit pedantic, but nerdfont adds icons, not ligatures.

sebastianconcpt 5y ago

Oh god... I can't say if you're trolling or not.

CharlesW 5y ago
There might be something to it. To wit, Comic Sans is recommended by the British Dyslexia Association and the Dyslexia Association of Ireland. An American Institute of Graphic Arts post from last summer said that it might be the best font for dyslexics, given its "character disambiguation" and "variation in letter heights". While other fonts have been specifically designed to be read by people with dyslexia — Dyslexie and OpenDyslexic are two — they just don’t have the availability of Comic Sans. To hate on Comic Sans is “ableist", Hudgins argues, and doing so discounts the reading difficulties of millions of people. https://www.thecut.com/2020/08/the-reason-comic-sans-is-a-public-good.html https://www.thecut.com/2020/08/the-reason-comic-sans-is-a-pu...
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StevePerkins 5y ago
I honestly can't tell much difference between this, and the new "Cascadia Code" font that Microsoft recently put out. If they didn't put "Comic" in the name, then no one would likely think twice about it. On the other hand, the notoriety of that name probably helps them draw attention, too.
speedgoose 5y ago
I’m really using this font everyday since about two years. I remember setting the font in vscode and testing comic sans ms for fun, just to see. To my surprise it wasn’t that bad for me but of course not monospaced. So I looked at monospaced fonts inspired by comic sans ms, you have a few free ones on GitHub, and I ended up with comic code relatively quick.

nerdponx 5y ago

This is great. I already tend to go for "curly" fonts like this: Recursive Mono ("Casual" or "Duotone" presets), Fantasque Sans Mono, and Mononoki. MonoLisa seems to fall into a similar category. Is there a name for this style?