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Comic Mono

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Re: Comic Mono

#11

I really don't get the fascination with Comic Sans. I've seen people set their system font on laptop or phone to it. How is it even readable? /end old man rant

I think there's a few reasons. It is used a lot in schools because it purportedly is good for students with dyslexia and resembles handwriting. Some use of it can be contributed to irony, but I think for a lot of laymen who don't care or know much about fonts they just think it's neat.

Re: Comic Mono

#12
post #2

The end result is a lot more pleasant than I expected it to be before clicking. Other than Helvetica and maybe Times New Roman/Calibri, how many other fonts have had a lasting influence on culture?

I'd go with Impact bold for the "meme captions".

Re: Comic Mono

#13
I think I like the base font "Comic Shanns" a little better. I can't really put my finger on the difference though.

Thanks for sharing!

Re: Comic Mono

#17
Not really a criticism and just an observation, but you can tell this page was written by a programmer because the section called "What does it look like?" is about what the code looks like, not the font itself.

I realize the page's text is in the font, but often there's a sample that shows what all the common characters look like and in different variations (like regular and bold). Which is what I expected when I read that section title.

Re: Comic Mono

#18

I really don't get the fascination with Comic Sans. I've seen people set their system font on laptop or phone to it. How is it even readable? /end old man rant

I've been using Comic Mono as my non-code IDE font for years. It clashes obviously with the font I use for the code, which makes it easier to parse context for me.

Re: Comic Mono

#19

Not really a criticism and just an observation, but you can tell this page was written by a programmer because the section called "What does it look like?" is about what the code looks like, not the font itself. I realize the page's text is in the font, but often there's a sample that shows what all the common characters look like and in different variations (like regular and bold). Which is what I expected when I re…

I think they were just using the source code as an example of the font since one of the most likely uses of this font is programming.
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