I legitimately like it. No joke.
Yeah it is strangely easy to look at. Smooth and readable.
Comic Mono
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Re: Comic Mono
#202I know that it's controversial, but I really feel using Comic Mono for coding reduces cognitive strain ... I've been using it as my main coding font for a while now.
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#203"äöåü" do not wörk.
Comic Shanns (the base of this font) released an update ~12h ago that include a whole bunch of diacritics. If you like Comic Mono, you may wish to run the converter script using the new CShanns release.
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#204Earlier quoted context omitted.
> inappropriate for all the uses mentioned above... I'll raise you. See Papyrus. [1] Who needs "'I'd rather be golfing' on a t-shirt in Papyrus, of all fonts? [1] https://www.instagram.com/papyrus_forever/?hl=en
You probably have seen it but for anyone who hasn't, this SNL skit on Papyrus is brilliant: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jVhlJNJopOQ
Didn't find that funny but it reminded me to rewatch Font Conference which is great: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3k5oY9AHHM
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#205I like Comic Sans. I'm still waiting to run into someone who uses it for their IDE/editor/terminal font.
Well I use Comic Mono as my terminal and code font, even for live coding performances in front of an audience ...
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#206Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
This and the parent comment need to be written with Comic Sans to highlight how absurdly pretentious they are.
This whole website and its entire commentariat are constantly participating in a neverending exercise of pretension one-upmanship and I implicate and debase myself by even pointing this out
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#207Earlier quoted context omitted.
And I’m sure those ramen sell well. Fact is, not many people care. If you have a product that doesn’t target designers or the like, does it really matter?
Surely there must be some value is graphic design? Or esthetics?
Sure. If you’re targeting a similar audience as Apple or other high end brands. My point is that there’s a different kind of audience for comic sans or its variants.
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#208When writing my dissertation, I found that changing the font to Comic Sans or Papyrus is an effective way of forcing myself to be self-critical and preventing myself from, for lack of a better phrase, "falling in love" with what I wrote (the "scholarly" classic-looking fonts like Sabon, Garamond, Baskerville tend to have that effect on me)
Any visual change lets you see what you've written from a different perspective. Changing the font, changing the formatting (e.g. margins,) changing the page size, and (especially for me) reading it in a different format.
I learned this trick from someone years ago. (I think they specifically suggested reading it in a different format?) I wonder if it has a name...
Re: Comic Mono
#209When writing my dissertation, I found that changing the font to Comic Sans or Papyrus is an effective way of forcing myself to be self-critical and preventing myself from, for lack of a better phrase, "falling in love" with what I wrote (the "scholarly" classic-looking fonts like Sabon, Garamond, Baskerville tend to have that effect on me)
This is why Bertrand Meyer formats all his lecture slides this way. See e.g. http://se.inf.ethz.ch/courses/2013a_spring/JavaCSharp/lectur... It's readable enough for students to refer back to, but ugly enough that they prefer listening instead of reading along.
This is why Bertrand Meyer formats all his lecture slides this way.
That's super interesting. Do you know where you learned that?
(Interestingly, your comment ranks #1 (after some videos) in Google's results for «bertrand meyer slide format».)
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#210Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
This and the parent comment need to be written with Comic Sans to highlight how absurdly pretentious they are.
It's virtually impossible to have a deep design-related discussion without it sounding to naive ears as pretentious. Design is the art of arranging things so as to evoke particular feelings in people. To discuss them is to discuss the feelings they're evoking vs the feelings that were intended to be evoked. And there's only so far you can get with the sorts of words ordinary people use to talk about their feelings. And nobody likes to hear that other people might feel and perceive deeper than them.