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]<p>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.<p>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.<p>[1] <a href="https://tosche.net/fonts/comic-code" rel="nofollow">https://tosche.net/fonts/comic-code</a>
While we're in this thread suggesting comic-style monospaced fonts, I can recommend Monaspace Radon:<p><a href="https://monaspace.githubnext.com/" rel="nofollow">https://monaspace.githubnext.com/</a> (go down to variants, it's 4th)<p>It actually works!<p>I actually really like Comic Sans and that style of font. Don't understand the haters!
Does anyone else remember when the OpenBSD people were releasing research slides and other material in MS comic sans? The LibreSSL logo still has it on their site and if you scroll far enough here [1] they go off about 'weaponizing' it, something about the license actually being free enough to piss off linux nerds while being what it is enough to piss off design nerds<p><a href="https://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan14-libressl/mgp00001.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan14-libressl/mgp00001.ht...</a>
I use fantasque sans. I forget what made me choose it over Comic Shanns. It's worth a look if you like this style.<p><a href="https://github.com/belluzj/fantasque-sans">https://github.com/belluzj/fantasque-sans</a>
I wanted to hate this, but it's actually not horrible at all? Looks nice just as a regular sans-serif font even - turns out the issue with comic sans is the letter spacing?
I'm working on a fork of it [1], because the original didn't have diacritics (á,ã,etc.), the metrics were a bit off for me and the "f" has a line at the bottom which I didn't like; and I'm also trying to adjust parameters because some IDEs (Eclipse on Windows) are have problems with it. I've also made it work with Python 3 and put the source fonts in submodules so you don't need to search for them manually to build it yourself. Work in progress.<p>[1]: <a href="https://github.com/caioycosta/comic-fork-mono-font">https://github.com/caioycosta/comic-fork-mono-font</a>
There is a fork of this[1] that includes programming ligatures, which might make this a more viable FOSS alternative to Comic-Code mentioned elsewhere.<p>[1] <a href="https://github.com/wayou/comic-mono-font/">https://github.com/wayou/comic-mono-font/</a>
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.<p>[1] <a href="https://github.com/subframe7536/maple-font">https://github.com/subframe7536/maple-font</a>
Wow, this is weirdly lovely. I don't think I would code with it (probably!) but it would look great for sort of blackboard-ish code samples in teaching materials.
I use APL386 as my daily font, has some comic sans vibe but has a simpler and cleaner look imo<p><a href="https://abrudz.github.io/APL386/" rel="nofollow">https://abrudz.github.io/APL386/</a>
Comic sans is great for dyslexia, b's and d's are not mirror images.<p>I have used Comic Code for years for this reason, and get the occasional giggle when pair programming.<p><a href="https://tosche.net/fonts/comic-code" rel="nofollow">https://tosche.net/fonts/comic-code</a>
Some previous discussion:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36312200">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36312200</a><p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25520510">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25520510</a>
If you want this style but balanced slightly more utility, I love Codelia [1]. It's my main coding font. It is, however, a paid font.<p>[1] <a href="https://tosche.net/fonts/codelia" rel="nofollow">https://tosche.net/fonts/codelia</a>
As I said a year ago, the i, l, and f serifs feel extremely non-comic. It's not right if it's not sans. IMO <a href="https://www.dafont.com/pointfree.font" rel="nofollow">https://www.dafont.com/pointfree.font</a> is still the best monospace comic font. All the others try to uncomic themselves with smoother more regular letterforms as though the goal for some reason is to become more mechanical and less lovingly human. No! I reject it! Pointfree retains the purity of the original beauty without sacrifice.<p>(<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36312200">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36312200</a>)
I have a thing for monospaced fonts and sans-serif.<p>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?
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!
We have a group chat with 20 random people sending just Comic Sans spotted in the wild. Just pictures, nothing else. Its the best thing that ever happened to me.
I tried it in PuTTY on Windows.<p>I ran into two problems.<p>1. Poor coverage of non-ASCII characters (it won't display simple accented letters, pound sign, euro sign, etc.).<p>2. []{} are cut off at the top.
After trying out a few Nerd Font variants I found this one. V1 looks correct, the second version supposedly fixes some bugs but looks worse. <a href="https://github.com/xtevenx/ComicMonoNF">https://github.com/xtevenx/ComicMonoNF</a>
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.<p>[0] <a href="https://www.nerdfonts.com/font-downloads" rel="nofollow">https://www.nerdfonts.com/font-downloads</a>
This has been my coding and terminal font for about three years now.<p>I really like it. I find it really easy to read, and it's fun to see people's reactions when they suddenly realize that they've been staring at Comic Sans on my computer.<p>I need to try out Comic Code at some point, but it's hard for me to justify when Comic Mono is free.
Related: the SeriousShanns fork: <a href="https://kabeech.github.io/serious-shanns/" rel="nofollow">https://kabeech.github.io/serious-shanns/</a><p>If nothing else, Serious adds the lambda symbol, which is a useful shorthand to use with Emacs' pretty symbols mode.
Reminds me it’s about time I ditch my .pe script in my 3270 font and turn it into Python. There’s a number of things I can do to improve it that are just too unwieldy with FontForge’s built-in language (mostly for the lack of good docs).
I love the idea. But a quick test tells me it is not appropriate for anyone who uses any non-ascii characters. A shame.<p>Loved all the recommendations in this thread. I have been thinking about getting away from Source Code Pro for a while.
I have used Comic Mono as my coding font for the past 2 years and unironically love it. I installed it as a joke so I could take some screenshots and get funny reactions out of my friends, but found myself genuinely enjoying the readability. These days I frequently forget it's even installed except when someone new joins the team and sees my IDE setup for the first time:<p>"What font is that??"<p>"Oh, haha, yeah... It's Comic Sans, but monospaced!"<p>"Uh huh. Okie dokie then."
I said in another thread about mono fonts, that I now have used comicMono so long, I automatically just put it into "Courier" and when I see a real Courier font, I do a double-take.
I feel that in "CDN" the C is way too close to D, some uppercase character spacing seem to close, defeating the "readability" purpose