Comic Sans and its descendants are... <i>indestructible</i>. No matter how much some font designers complain about it, and how often they criticize it, Comic Sans keeps coming back, like the Terminator: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_Sans#Reception_and_use_in_popular_culture" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_Sans#Reception_and_use_i...</a><p>Among the most incongruous uses of Comic Sans I've seen, a few stand out:<p>* A plaque on a large statue of a historical figure in a public space: <a href="https://www.biobiochile.cl/noticias/nacional/region-metropolitana/2018/07/03/critican-monumento-a-pedro-aguirre-cerda-por-utilizacion-de-tipografia-comic-sans.shtml" rel="nofollow">https://www.biobiochile.cl/noticias/nacional/region-metropol...</a><p>* A letter announcing the creation of new political party in Greece, breaking off with the then-current Prime Minister: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151004131442/http://www.volosnow.gr/o-lafazanis-katethese-tin-apochorisi-tou-grammeni-se-comic-sans/" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20151004131442/http://www.volosn...</a><p>* A letter to the US Congress from the legal team defending the President against impeachment proceedings: <a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/90414127/trumps-old-lawyers-really-really-love-comic-sans" rel="nofollow">https://www.fastcompany.com/90414127/trumps-old-lawyers-real...</a><p>Thankfully, in these examples the authors chose not to use a different color for each letter!
When 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)
The end result is a lot more pleasant than I expected it to be before clicking.<p>Other than Helvetica and maybe Times New Roman/Calibri, how many other fonts have had a lasting influence on culture?
As someone who creates software for the education space, in my experience Comic Sans is picked in schools because it has the 'a' in the shape that you actually write an 'a'. This helps when teaching primary school children.<p>Some schools will got out of their way to buy special fonts but most will default to Comic Sans because it is ubiquitous.
Not really a criticism and just an observation, but you can tell this page was written by a programmer because the section called "What does it look like?" is about what <i>the code</i> looks like, not the font itself.<p>I realize the page's text <i>is</i> in the font, but often there's a sample that shows what all the common characters look like and in different variations (like regular and bold). Which is what I expected when I read that section title.
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: <a href="https://sw46.github.io/pip-book" rel="nofollow">https://sw46.github.io/pip-book</a>
I use Comic Code - not free, but pretty reasonably priced. <a href="http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/tabular-type-foundry/comic-code" rel="nofollow">http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/tabular-type-foundry/comic-code</a><p>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.<p>Screenshot: <a href="https://i.imgur.com/x1b1gac.png" rel="nofollow">https://i.imgur.com/x1b1gac.png</a>
If you like this, I also recommend <a href="https://github.com/belluzj/fantasque-sans" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/belluzj/fantasque-sans</a>
I will say this, using Comic Sans when we sent out Early Childhood material to parents got a much better response than using "formal" fonts. I guess it didn't look like bills, so people actually looked at it.
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. ( <a href="https://www.dyslexiefont.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.dyslexiefont.com</a> )
See also Comic Code: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20533923" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20533923</a>
This is great, but I would have preferred it if it was based on Comic Neue[1], a more legible and sane version of the original Comic Sans.<p>[1]: <a href="http://comicneue.com/" rel="nofollow">http://comicneue.com/</a>
In terms of mono fonts that look like Comic Sans, I am surprised no one has mentioned Fantasque Sans Mono: <a href="https://github.com/belluzj/fantasque-sans" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/belluzj/fantasque-sans</a><p>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: <a href="https://v-fonts.com/fonts/fira-code" rel="nofollow">https://v-fonts.com/fonts/fira-code</a> <a href="https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode</a><p>Not to mention the original Fira Mono: <a href="https://github.com/bBoxType/FiraSans/blob/master/Fira_Mono_3_2/PDF/FiraMono-Medium.otf.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/bBoxType/FiraSans/blob/master/Fira_Mono_3...</a> for a sample or <a href="https://github.com/bBoxType/FiraSans" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/bBoxType/FiraSans</a> to download.
I once worked with a guy who wrote everything in Comic Sans - despite being counseled about it repeatedly. Fonts set a "tone" to your writing, and while Comic Sans if maybe fine for inviting people to in impromptu office pizza party, it represents yourself poorly in a professional environment. Here's some examples of how inappropriate some of his emails were (all real):<p>- Contract negotiations<p>- HR issues<p>- Announcing the unexpected death of a co-worker<p>- Announcing layoffs on a contract loss<p>It looked ridiculous. It also turns out he was a terrible employee and manager. The two seem to be pretty correlated.
Honestly this isn’t bad. I can see it being particularly useful for code examples or situations where you want code to appear playful or otherwise less stodgy to the user. API documentation and blog posts come to mind.<p>Definitely deserves a run in the editor at the very least.
Love this.
Once while studying the uses of programming font preferences on Hackernews (<a href="http://www.highdimensionalcoconuts.com/Work/FontResearch/programing_fonts.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.highdimensionalcoconuts.com/Work/FontResearch/pro...</a>), I found a single vote for Comic Sans. The motivation: “to remind me to be humble”.
I really appreciated the sentiment, though the kerning on Comic Sans makes this a visual nightmare for programming. Having a monospaced variant is a nice feature for programmers.
I dislike how the font has no italic and renders using an ugly faux italic (the browser makes it oblique with too much slant, and it ends up too far to the right). And the FontForge-bolded version is not significantly bolder than before, which is understandable because Comic Sans is already heavy.<p>The original Comic Sans comes with regular, bold, and in Windows 8.1 and above, italic and bold italic as well.
I think I like the base font "Comic Shanns" a little better. I can't really put my finger on the difference though.<p>Thanks for sharing!
Comic Sans has gained a cultural meaning beyond it's design, which is why it's inappropriate for any official publications.<p>Personally I have more fun spotting the "Jokerman" font in public. It is often chosen to display creativity or playfulness by people who appear to lack the skill to expand the Windows font selection.
There's something very pleasing about the monospacing with this particular font.<p>Font people-- any idea why I would enjoy the aesthetics of the monospaced version so much more than the old variable-width version?
I 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.
This discussion is quite the testament to the incredible influence of Comic Sans when people are raising fuss over it when <i>it’s not even the topic of the thread!</i>
Never thought I would ever see this during my lifetime. Really well done. Has the quirky feel of Comic Sans, but with the flavor of fixed space mono fonts.
this is nice. might take take a bit of time to getting used to this (like any other change).<p>how to use this in Pycharm , Notepad, etc in my work computer ?
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?<p>/end old man rant
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