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Monospaced fonts are for programmers.
Who haven’t experimented with proportional fonts for coding yet.
would you mind expanding on this?
Comic Mono
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#152This discussion is quite the testament to the incredible influence of Comic Sans when people are raising fuss over it when it’s not even the topic of the thread!
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I've always been quite irritated by the amount of disdain toward Comic Sans. Partly because I feel like this is such an easy target, and people who have just learned 2 or 3 things about typography are very keen on bashing Comic Sans to show off their newly acquired knowledge. Partly because, let's face it, it's not that bad. What it does, it does well, it's pretty legible, no glyph stands out from the general harmony…
Comic Sans is the Britney Spears of fonts. Overused/Overplayed. Legible/Catchy. Well crafted for its original purpose. Gets no respect. Probably deserves a little, but it makes you feel dirty to give it.
Not Britany Spears.
Maybe Carol Burnett.
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Comic Sans is the Britney Spears of fonts. Overused/Overplayed. Legible/Catchy. Well crafted for its original purpose. Gets no respect. Probably deserves a little, but it makes you feel dirty to give it.
Not sure it’s Britney. Comic Sans has no ambition; is chosen despite itself; is hyper-ordinary. It’s the supermarket’s-own-brand ramen noodles of typefaces.
"No ambition... hyper ordinary.. "
Same as every crack addict on a come down, surely?
I'm not sure if Britney Spears had pushy parents, but I think that's the analogy with Comic Sans. Abusively pushy and demeaning, trying to criticise when the flaws are those of the beholder and bestowing outrageous praise for imaginary achievements.
I'm glad to hear solid defence of Comic Sans here because whatever it is, it's sui generis, unto itself true. Which I think is the most attractive character trait at the same time as provoking extreme reactions of self projection in observers.
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#155The 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?
cooper black comes to mind
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#156This is fucking genius. It's like coding in a comic book world.
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#157Not gonna lie, I like it.
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#158this is nice. might take take a bit of time to getting used to this (like any other change).
how to use this in Pycharm , Notepad, etc in my work computer ?
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#159In terms of mono fonts that look like Comic Sans, I am surprised no one has mentioned Fantasque Sans Mono: https://github.com/belluzj/fantasque-sans
While not Comic Sans, another Microsoft Web Core font which has been reasonably cloned is Trebuchet MS. Fira is, to my eyes, an open source font which looks similar to Trebuchet MS, and there is the very popular monospace variant Fira Code: https://v-fonts.com/fonts/fira-code https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode
Not to mention the original Fira Mono: https://github.com/bBoxType/FiraSans/blob/master/Fira_Mono_3... for a sample or https://github.com/bBoxType/FiraSans to download.