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I like it a lot! Definitely in the camp of “comic sans is over-hated for poor reasons, and might even have legibility benefits for dyslexia”, and I considered a
by fwlr 3y ago
I like it a lot! Definitely in the camp of “comic sans is over-hated for poor reasons, and might even have legibility benefits for dyslexia”, and I considered a few comic sans inspired monospaced fonts before settling on Source Code Pro. The leaders were Fantasque (https://github.com/belluzj/fantasque-sans/ https://github.com/belluzj/fantasque-sans/) and Comic Code (https://tosche.net/fonts/comic-code https://tosche.net/fonts/comic-code). (Comic Code’s creator actually links to the font you linked, Comic Mono, as an example of a free font with the same spirit!)
Ultimately I found that anything descended from or inspired by comic sans ended up a little too busy for my eyes.
- sitkack 3y agoI appreciate how Comic Sans was used by educators to find something that helped people with dyslexia, while also breaking down the serious barrier. SPJ[1] from Haskell would use Comic Sans in his slides, which seems oddly humorous to me. Below are fonts are designed to minimize the effects of dyslexia. https://www.dyslexiefont.com/ https://www.dyslexiefont.com/ https://opendyslexic.org/ https://opendyslexic.org/ https://www.k-type.com/fonts/lexie-readable/ https://www.k-type.com/fonts/lexie-readable/ [1] https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~sweirich/icfp-plmw15/slides/peyton-jones.pdf https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~sweirich/icfp-plmw15/slides/peyto...