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I'm curious, does anybody else change their terminal/editor font about once every two months only to immediately decide."no I don't like change" and go back to

I'm curious, does anybody else change their terminal/editor font about once every two months only to immediately decide."no I don't like change" and go back to their standard? (In my case JetBrains Mono) I'd don't know if it's that I genuinely prefer that font, or just that I've spent so long looking at it my brain can't handle anything else.

marginalia_nu 3y ago
I tried a bunch, wasn't quite happy until I found Comic Mono. It's unironically is the superior programming font if you have dyslexia. Makes an enormous difference in my reading speed.
- starkparker 3y ago
  Interestingly, it might not be the Comic Sans of it that helps.[1] If your editor or terminal has the option, increasing the tracking/space between letters in any sans-serif font can help with letter-flipping issues. Disclaimer: I'm both mildly dyslexic and a more severe letter-flipper/mirror-writer (visual processing issues)[2] since childhood 1: https://www.boia.org/blog/does-comic-sans-benefit-people-with-dyslexia https://www.boia.org/blog/does-comic-sans-benefit-people-wit... 2: https://www.understood.org/en/articles/faqs-about-reversing-letters-writing-letters-backwards-and-dyslexia https://www.understood.org/en/articles/faqs-about-reversing-...
  - marginalia_nu 3y ago
    It's literally the only font that has this effect on my reading I've found, seems to be something with the letter shapes. It basically feels like putting on prescription glasses, suddenly all the text becomes ten times more legible. Playing with the spacing of another font doesn't seem to have a similar effect. Although I'm open to the fact that there's probably a whole spectrum of different processing disorders that fly under the banner of dyslexia, so mileage may definitely vary.
ReleaseCandidat 3y ago
Just happened to me too, I've tried some I found at https://www.programmingfonts.org/ https://www.programmingfonts.org/. I again returned to using Hasklig - Source Code pro with Ligatures - in the editor.

marginalia_nu 3y ago

I tried a bunch, wasn't quite happy until I found Comic Mono. It's unironically is the superior programming font if you have dyslexia. Makes an enormous difference in my reading speed.

starkparker 3y ago
Interestingly, it might not be the Comic Sans of it that helps.[1] If your editor or terminal has the option, increasing the tracking/space between letters in any sans-serif font can help with letter-flipping issues. Disclaimer: I'm both mildly dyslexic and a more severe letter-flipper/mirror-writer (visual processing issues)[2] since childhood 1: https://www.boia.org/blog/does-comic-sans-benefit-people-with-dyslexia https://www.boia.org/blog/does-comic-sans-benefit-people-wit... 2: https://www.understood.org/en/articles/faqs-about-reversing-letters-writing-letters-backwards-and-dyslexia https://www.understood.org/en/articles/faqs-about-reversing-...
- marginalia_nu 3y ago
  It's literally the only font that has this effect on my reading I've found, seems to be something with the letter shapes. It basically feels like putting on prescription glasses, suddenly all the text becomes ten times more legible. Playing with the spacing of another font doesn't seem to have a similar effect. Although I'm open to the fact that there's probably a whole spectrum of different processing disorders that fly under the banner of dyslexia, so mileage may definitely vary.

ReleaseCandidat 3y ago

Just happened to me too, I've tried some I found at https://www.programmingfonts.org/ https://www.programmingfonts.org/. I again returned to using Hasklig - Source Code pro with Ligatures - in the editor.