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Seriously, though, Comic Sans was originally designed to be legible at the smallest possible font size, and the lack of hard lines makes it easier to read!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This is cute~! I hated comic-sans when seeing it on lots of tacky corporate and school signs etc. but recently I ironically and then unironically fell in love with its whacky-ness, bold-ness and readability, (I use a Samsung phone, and used PT Mono on the S9, but then future phones blocked custom fonts, so I used one hack-ey Comic-Sans version since my mono ones are so underground no one developed a phone hack - now any font is possible again so I'm using the one below~ )

A few years ago my fav. font became PT Mono, from Google Fonts - cyrilic compatible, it has these angular edges, and swoopy circle curves, so cute <3

THEN there was this font printed on 2011 Pentax Q cameras and lenses that I loved, and couldn't find the original, but there was something very similar, STALKER1 and related similar fonts

PT MONO

STALKER1

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How do you feel about Choco Cookie? It's ubiquitous on Samsung phones but I don't think it looks as good as Comic Sans.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I've seen it around - I'm not a fan, I like comic sans, PT Mono and STALKER1 <3

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This looks way better than it has any right to, I expected to hate this. Now I'm looking at fonts again reevaluating some shit

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I see serifs. You're a phony! A great big phony!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Stumbled into this site while looking through other comments and apparently it was designed for the speech bubbles of a cartoon dog, not sure about the "legible at small sizes" claim - http://www.connare.com/whycomic.htm

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I didn't want to wake up and start liking comic sans, God damn

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Wow, that's kind of amazing. I'll be trying it out now. Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It looks surprisingly decent! Does it support ligatures?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

pfft! Real devs use wingdings!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I used to use Ubuntu mono but now I use Jetbrains Mono but damn that comic sans looks better than I'd expect I might even give it a try!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

My eyes just can't adjust to this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I unironically really like Comic Mono despite not super being a fan of Comic Sans (not cos it looks bad, I think it's actually really nice looking, just overused)

I keep thinking about switching to this font. I use Fira Code atm, and I'd miss the ligatures, but this genuinely looks a a lot more readable

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

not a crime. i use it for my notepad, it looks weird but its fine for me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It's not even monospace

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

At least you’re using a monospaced one…

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Why is it so bad?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

somehow this doesn't offend my eyes the way comic sans usually does, so I guess that's a win?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Look what you have done! I used Operator Mono for Italics. I kind of like this!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Blatant trolling should be banned! Get the pitchforks everyone! :P

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