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Re: Comic Mono

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Post by hinkley »

shawnz wrote: post #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!

I think it's the kerning, or when we are being funny, 'keming' which is a visual pun (when kerning goes wrong, kerning and keming are homographs).

Ironically, the text I had the hardest time reading on their example page was the name of the font itself: Comic Mono has all the letters running together.

Unfortunately Comic Shanns doesn't render its own name in the examples that I see, but you can see that the capital C has another pixel between it and the next letter.

ETA: Author generated this font via the use of some scripts, which are inline near the bottom. There's a line about target_width in there, I'm curious what happens if you bump that from 510 to 530...

Re: Comic Mono

#52

Post by sitkack »

fwip wrote: post #16
numbsafari wrote: post #6

This almost has the ‘e’ from my favorite programming font, monofur.

Monofur is really good.

It has a late 50s Italian photoplotter with baked enamel in drab pastel pastiche to it. Looks nice. I don't even know if photoplotters were a thing in the 50s, I guess they are now.

Re: Comic Mono

#53

Post by matt-attack »

liminal wrote: post #42
Bakary wrote: 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?

SNL did a funny skit on Papyrus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVhlJNJopOQ

For anyone who hasn't watched the above, please watch it. I truly believe it's one of SNL's best pieces of comedy. So incredibly well done.

Re: Comic Mono

#54

Post by sitkack »

fwip wrote: post #15

I use Comic Code - not free, but pretty reasonably priced. http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/tabular-type-foundry/comic-code I find that it is pretty readable and makes coding feel less serious - it helps me get into a looser "try it and see if it works" mentality. Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/x1b1gac.png

I really hope you close the loop on this and put emojis in your comments and error messages. No joke.

Re: Comic Mono

#55

Post by HalcyonicStorm »

corytheboyd wrote: post #8

I actually... don’t mind it? What is wrong with me

I'm also here with you. I don't get the issue. I know some fonts are more easily readable than others. I can understand the argument that maybe some fonts cause more strain than others. But there are other commenters who are saying that this font type is evoking emotions from them, particularly negative emotional ones. I don't get it.

Re: Comic Mono

#56

Post by hinkley »

porphyra wrote: post #7
sevencolors wrote: post #3

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

A lot of what makes Comic Sans so ugly (lack of consistency or uniformity) also happens to make it more legible for people with dyslexia or similar reading disabilities.

All the times I've read along people bashing some 'asshole' who insisted on Comic Sans for everything, now I'm wondering how often the 'asshole' had dyslexia and the other people were the real assholes...

Re: Comic Mono

#57

Post by neolog »

nerdponx wrote: post #26
cs702 wrote: post #24

Comic Sans and its descendants are... indestructible . No matter how much some font designers complain about it, and how often they criticize it, Comic Sans keeps coming back, like the Terminator: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_Sans#Reception_and_use_i... Among the most incongruous uses of Comic Sans I've seen, a few stand out: * A plaque on a large statue of a historical figure in a public space: https://www.bi…

I truly don't understand why. Are people just that sick of Times New Roman and Calibri? It's not like I especially hate Comic Sans, but it seems so wildly inappropriate for all of the uses mentioned above.

> so wildly inappropriate

Comic Sans is a nice handwriting-style font. Isn't it just the name that makes people think it's inappropriate?

Re: Comic Mono

#58

Post by iakov »

lrossi wrote: post #40
lrossi wrote: post #38

I’ve used this font in all diagrams of my book. Together with svg shape filtering, it achieved a great handwriting look. You can find sample chapters here if curious: https://sw46.github.io/pip-book

Here is a direct link: https://sw46.github.io/pip-book/12.pdf

I think it works very well. Round, but uniform, it reminds me of handwriting on old blueprints.

Re: Comic Mono

#59

Post by not2b »

b3n wrote: post #31
quiescant_dodo wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Out of curiosity, why do you use a monospaced font for non-code?

If there is commented-out code, it works better in a monospace font.
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