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Personally I find Comic Sans easiest to read, as dyslexic. I even use a monospace version of the font for coding and in the terminal.
by marginalia_nu 2y ago
Personally I find Comic Sans easiest to read, as dyslexic. I even use a monospace version of the font for coding and in the terminal.
- russfink 2y agoWould that by chance be the Pointfree font?
- marginalia_nu 2y agoDunno. It's just called Comic Mono. https://dtinth.github.io/comic-mono-font/ https://dtinth.github.io/comic-mono-font/
- tpoacher 2y agoYou might be interested to give Comic Code [0] a try instead. Unlike Comic Mono it is a paid font, but I find it a lot nicer to use/read. [0] https://tosche.net/fonts/comic-code https://tosche.net/fonts/comic-code
- yardshop 2y agoI use Comic Code in my editors and console windows and really like it a lot. Adds some practical frivolity to the process!
- harimau777 2y agoI appreciate the double meaning of the name "Comic Code"! Well played! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comics_Code_Authority https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comics_Code_Authority
- strunz 2y agoOof that k looks way too much like r to me EDIT: the font the website uses, not comic-code
- sphars 2y agoAnother alternative Comic Sans-inspired mono font is Serious Shanns (which is actually forked from Comic Mono): https://github.com/kaBeech/serious-shanns https://github.com/kaBeech/serious-shanns
- fnordpiglet 2y agoThat’s fascinating do you have any insights as to why?
- marginalia_nu 2y agoI think it's related to how irregular the shapes of the letters are. The circles are all slightly bent out of shape in different ways, and the line strokes all have slightly varying slants. Most attempts at making a font try to make all that stuff as regular as possible, even the one in the article we're discussing does this.
- fnordpiglet 2y agoThank you that makes sense.
- ggm 2y agoI am not dyslexic and I use this font too, because it's easier on my eyes. I find myself increasingly thinking "Courier" when I look at it and have to remind myself its not, and I chose it.
- ppseafield 2y agoLikewise I've used Fantasque Sans Mono (related to Comic Sans) for a long time as a coding font.
- 8n4vidtmkvmk 2y agoHave you tried any Dyslexic fonts, like https://opendyslexic.org/ https://opendyslexic.org/ ?