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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 add Futura there for sure, and due to "former professional inclinations", Computer Modern.
Good call. Everyone who's been to college (especially to study CS? exclusively to study CS?) and read a few papers after 198x is familiar with it.
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…
In 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…
Fantasque Sans Mono was my go-to monospace font until Jetbrains Mono came out. I still think it looks quite good for code while not being too comic-y.
* I prefer a stroke instead of a dot in to 0 (zero)
* While JetBrains mono has an alternate form with a 0 stroke, the stroke is too thin.
* The smart quotes, such as “” look too much like each other. I edited them to give the font Verdana-style smart quotes (where “ and ‘ point to the left)
* The “c” looks too much like “o”. I have opened up the bowl in c so it’s distinct from “o”.
* I aggressively subsetted the font to have only English, Spanish, and some basic typography (smart quotes, em dash, bullet, right arrow). This reduces the size, which means I could make it a webfont in the future.
* The changes are over at https://github.com/samboy/CaulixtlaFonts/tree/master/MiscFon... (AnnaTerm is modified Fira Mono; ElsaTerm is modified Jetbrains Mono)
These are issues I could quickly patch up in Fontforge, and I do like the font.
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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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I am not a font designer, but I don't like Comic Sans for the same reason I don't like Las Vegas architecture that resembles ancient Rome or Egypt, even though I am not an architect. Maybe it's because they're both tacky?
Vegas is just a big adult theme park. The giant pirate ship is not seaworthy.
People who dislike it aren't trying to show off the "2 or 3 things that have learned on typography", they are simply not blind and can see its ugliness.
But apparently people got offended when I've said that there's no need to be an architect to understand that Vegas has no architectural value...
There's no special quality that makes comic sans good if you look close enough, it's just bad, 20 dollars WiFi router bad, LIDL shoes bad, IKEA lack table bad, Caesar Palace Forum shop bad, something that looks okeish from afar but that's not even good enough for casual use.
Nobody would live and raise a family in a Treasure Island hotel room, nobody would seriously use comic sans to write code and look at it 8+ hours a day.
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I just hate all handwritten fonts for passages of text because a single character looks the same every time it appears, which is very unrealistic and cringe-worthy for emulating handwriting.
There are handwritten-like fonts which avoid that problem, by having several versions of each glyph and choosing one randomly for each letter. Some of them even introduce some random variation in the shapes to replicate true handwritten text.
The original Comic Sans comes with regular, bold, and in Windows 8.1 and above, italic and bold italic as well.
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Vegas is just a big adult theme park. The giant pirate ship is not seaworthy.
That's my point: comic sans is the Vegas of fonts. People who dislike it aren't trying to show off the "2 or 3 things that have learned on typography", they are simply not blind and can see its ugliness. But apparently people got offended when I've said that there's no need to be an architect to understand that Vegas has no architectural value... There's no special quality that makes comic sans good if you look close…
So many shades of yes! I am dyslexic, and comic sans is one of the few fonts that is eminently readable to me. They’re is dyslexie mono too, which is nice. ( https://www.dyslexiefont.com )