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Re: Comic Mono

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Post by PawgerZ »

graemep wrote: post #101
chrisguilbeau wrote: post #17

I've been using a comic sans based mono font now since the last time I saw it on HN (about a year ago based on my receipt). I use a paid version called Comic Code [1] I find it very easy to read as well as fun. I had similar feelings about using Monaco in the past. I find it personally makes programming easier on the eyes and enjoyable. I remember reading the font is similar to the letters that are taught in kinderga…

> I remember reading the font is similar to the letters that are taught in kindergarten which is a theory of why it's easy on the eyes. I know some people find it easier to read, but that explanation does not seem right to me. For one thing are kids not taught to read using printed materials? I taught my kids to read using whole words - flash cards and then "look and say" books and those did not use fonts anything li…

I believe they mean similar to the fonts when you're learning the alphabet, not when you're learning to read. Like those books where you trace "A" ten times then "a" 10 times then "B" and so on.

Re: Comic Mono

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Post by groby_b »

Eezee wrote: post #56
groby_b wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

$15.50 for something you use every moment of your working life? It's not that much. It's fine to use free versions instead, but maybe let's stop asking for freebies from folks who make their living that way, especially from Indy folks. (Badger your average megacorp for free stuff for all you want, they'll find ways to extract money somehow)

You need at the very least 4 of those $15.50 fonts to cover italic and bold. If I could get the entire font family for $30 or so I would consider it despite all the free alternatives, but $150 is just way too much if you are making a non-US salary.

I suppose I'm the last person alive to just use plain text. So, yes, sorry for that omission.

The full collection is $100. At average European salaries, that's (at worst) half a day of work. Not unnoticeable, but if you care about your tools, not an amount that's entirely unreasonable. The coding family is, as you say, $30 - 90 minutes of work.

Beyond US, Europe, and other affluent countries, yes, it gets somewhat unaffordable. I don't have a good answer here. But I don't think asking indy folks to fix global inequality is the right answer, either. They need to live too.

Some choose to release their fonts for free (Monaspace, Comic Mono, Inconsolata...), but that's a choice they made for themselves. They ultimately decided it was affordable for them to do that. And that's great!

But I really have a problem with complaining about people who are trying to make a living, demanding they give away their work. One because it's somewhat entitled ("I deserve to get your work for free"), and two because it's a large part of what discourages indy work. Something our industry sorely needs.

Re: Comic Mono

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Post by _blz2 »

globular-toast wrote: post #93

I've yet to find a programming font better than Ubuntu Mono, but I definitely want to try this as it looks really nice. What's the difference between this and Comic Shanns Mono, though? There is a nerd font[0] available for the latter. [0] https://www.nerdfonts.com/font-downloads

Iosevka is the one for me: https://www.programmingfonts.org/#iosevka

Re: Comic Mono

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Post by weinzierl »

BugsJustFindMe wrote: post #108
weinzierl wrote: post #103

I have a thing for monospaced fonts and sans-serif. What they all have in common is slab-like serifs on the i and j. It is not an easy problem to solve to make these two fit harmonically in their allotted space but does anyone know a monospace font that solved this issue in a different way?

Pointfree does it right by giving i and l friendly curves.

Very nice. Thanks a lot, that is good example of what I was looking for. To the curious, here is a link to the font:

https://luc.devroye.org/fonts-59663.html

Re: Comic Mono

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Post by OrangeMusic »

It bothers me that they changed a lot of letters from the original Comic Sans. They even added serifs, which contradicts the "Sans", and the spirit of the original!

Re: Comic Mono

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Post by depaulagu »

LeonidasXIV wrote: post #87
card_zero wrote: post #73

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If you look at screenshot #5, the text is the same size as the text the page is written in, yet looks very different. No slab serifs on 'r' or 'n', and a less quirky 'y' and 'k'. So now I don't know if the page is written in the font it's talking about, or some other font. Confusing.

According to my browsers dev-tools the text on the page is Dossier[0], which happens to be a font by the same author. I admit I also first thought that it would be set in the font its trying to demonstrate. [0]: https://www.tosche.net/fonts/dossier

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa that makes way more sense

Re: Comic Mono

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Post by jihadjihad »

cy_hauser wrote: post #47
jihadjihad wrote: post #39

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It’s not just you. A few weeks ago I saw the “noble gas” fonts here on HN and gave them a try, ended up going back to JetBrains Mono. Still haven’t found one that can reliably displace it—even my prior daily driver, Fira Code!

Try Hack. I've tried many including Jetbrains Mono and Fira Code. Both are really good but I drifted back to Hack. It just hits a comfortable place for me.

Good suggestion. I like it a lot, but the Regular weight is still too bold for my taste. I'm using JetBrains Mono ExtraLight right now, so I just wish Hack had a couple lighter-weight options to try out.

Re: Comic Mono

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Post by strunz »

ahmrz wrote: post #66

I've been using a similar font called Maple Mono [1] for around a year now, and it's amazing. I personally find it more readable for code. [1] https://github.com/subframe7536/maple-font

Loving this so far, thanks!
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