Comic Mono
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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.biobiochile.cl/noticias/nacional/region-metropol...
* A letter announcing the creation of new political party in Greece, breaking off with the then-current Prime Minister: https://web.archive.org/web/20151004131442/http://www.volosn...
* A letter to the US Congress from the legal team defending the President against impeachment proceedings: https://www.fastcompany.com/90414127/trumps-old-lawyers-real...
Thankfully, in these examples the authors chose not to use a different color for each letter!
Comic Sans is a nice handwriting-style font. Isn't it just the name that makes people think it's inappropriate?
I think it's sort of transcended all that, though. It's now the legendary Comic Sans from the land beyond taste, more meme than font.
Originally designed for Microsoft Bob, missed that deadline, came out in the Win95 Plus Pack.
The working name was "Comic Book". Probably because it is based on multiple comic books, primarily The Dark Knight Returns. I've also seen Watchmen mentioned in other interviews as a primary source for the shapes though he doesn't mention it in his page on the font.
Pardon me, I think my bullshit meter just exploded.
I'll raise you. See Papyrus. [1] Who needs "'I'd rather be golfing' on a t-shirt in Papyrus, of all fonts?
Update: The designer actually had to change the name for... sigh... legal reasons, so now it's this: https://creativemarket.com/benharman/229510-Comic-Parchment-...
There are fonts that were actually designed to be dyslexic-friendly, but they tend to be uglier; Comic Sans is a middle ground that doesn't slow non-dyslexics as much.
Partly because I feel like this is such an easy target, and people who have just learned 2 or 3 things about typography are very keen on bashing Comic Sans to show off their newly acquired knowledge.
Partly because, let's face it, it's not that bad. What it does, it does well, it's pretty legible, no glyph stands out from the general harmony, etc.
There's a reason it became massively used. It was included in windows because it was part of Microsoft Chat, which back then was heavily comic book styled, with speech bubbles for messages etc (something that has since then become a standard in IM). It appeared in the font drop-down list, and people picked it when they wanted their message to look a bit informal, not too severe. Of course, someone with design knowledge is able to achieve this without resorting to this specific font (or even a funny font), but most people lack this knowledge.
Overused/Overplayed. Legible/Catchy. Well crafted for its original purpose. Gets no respect. Probably deserves a little, but it makes you feel dirty to give it.
Comic Sans has no ambition; is chosen despite itself; is hyper-ordinary.
It’s the supermarket’s-own-brand ramen noodles of typefaces.
If you have a product that doesn’t target designers or the like, does it really matter?
Same as every crack addict on a come down, surely?
I'm not sure if Britney Spears had pushy parents, but I think that's the analogy with Comic Sans. Abusively pushy and demeaning, trying to criticise when the flaws are those of the beholder and bestowing outrageous praise for imaginary achievements.
I'm glad to hear solid defence of Comic Sans here because whatever it is, it's sui generis, unto itself true. Which I think is the most attractive character trait at the same time as provoking extreme reactions of self projection in observers.
Maybe Carol Burnett.
Edit: not that comic sans is a bad choice I’ve just been working on things related to this and found that other font
Classic example: Futura.
Modern examples:
Apple fonts: Monaco uses both single-storey "a" and "g"; San Francisco uses single-storey "g" by default, and includes single-storey "a" in stylistic sets.
The Adobe Source (Code, Sans) and IBM Plex (Sans, Serif, Mono) font families include both single-storey "a" and "g" as alternate glyphs accessible through OpenType stylistic sets.
Maybe it's because they're both tacky?
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.
So who exactly is the more petty? People getting irritated by a typeface, or people getting irritated over those people?
Now they can use Comic Mono on their xterm.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/web/07/09/comic.sans.cavs.james...
The whole "font snob" attitude is pretty old and tired at least for me.
If the content bears up, you're probably onto something.
It's readable enough for students to refer back to, but ugly enough that they prefer listening instead of reading along.
But on second thought, I guess users don't read them anyway.
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».)
I learned this trick from someone years ago. (I think they specifically suggested reading it in a different format?) I wonder if it has a name...
Other than Helvetica and maybe Times New Roman/Calibri, how many other fonts have had a lasting influence on culture?
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.
Garamond has a rather more extensive history, but, suffice it to say that, in terms of typography at least, 1984[1] was not entirely unlike Nineteen Eighty-Four[2].
[1] https://youtu.be/VtvjbmoDx-I?t=54
[2] https://thumbs.worthpoint.com/zoom/images3/1/1215/25/1949-uk...
>> https://typesetinthefuture.com/2014/11/29/fontspots-eurostil...
Wonton, which you have almost certainly seen on an American Chinese restaurant sign or menu.
The jersey letter "Varsity" fonts.
Some schools will got out of their way to buy special fonts but most will default to Comic Sans because it is ubiquitous.
I realize the page's text is 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 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.
Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/x1b1gac.png
I think I'll set my terminal to it
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-code https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode
Not to mention the original Fira Mono: https://github.com/bBoxType/FiraSans/blob/master/Fira_Mono_3... for a sample or https://github.com/bBoxType/FiraSans to download.
* 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.
- Contract negotiations
- HR issues
- Announcing the unexpected death of a co-worker
- Announcing layoffs on a contract loss
It looked ridiculous. It also turns out he was a terrible employee and manager. The two seem to be pretty correlated.
For me, this makes it farce. Partly because the guy continues to do it after learning it bugs everyone else, and partly because of the earnestness around what fonts someone uses in office emails.
My guess is that you were driven to that level of earnestness. What was it like to have a disagreement with this guy about something that mattered (more)?
It was clearly part of a carefully crafted social image he was trying to portray. It included signing emails with "wise sayings", fortunes, and platitudes like "let your inner light shine the way for others" and other nonsense, long rambling speeches about how we're all each other's brother, and a bizarre need to try to protect the worst performing employees from even minimal levels of accountability.
In practice he was pure chaos to work with and never contributed anything meaningful to our work despite having a great looking resume (including stints at some FAANGs and top schools). When cornered about actual technical work he was supposed to be doing he just became annoyingly evasive and tried to redirect the conversation into some kind of drum-circle feelings session.
It was like a cheap con-artist, a yoga class, and a fortune cookie had a baby.
I need to know if he also used Comic Sans on his resume.
Definitely deserves a run in the editor at the very least.
The original Comic Sans comes with regular, bold, and in Windows 8.1 and above, italic and bold italic as well.
Thanks for sharing!
Ironically, the text I had the hardest time reading on their example page was the name of the font itself: Comic Mono has all the letters running together.
Unfortunately Comic Shanns doesn't render its own name in the examples that I see, but you can see that the capital C has another pixel between it and the next letter.
ETA: Author generated this font via the use of some scripts, which are inline near the bottom. There's a line about target_width in there, I'm curious what happens if you bump that from 510 to 530...
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.
Font people-- any idea why I would enjoy the aesthetics of the monospaced version so much more than the old variable-width version?
I think this is the biggest trick. I'm no font expert, but my understanding is that the base of Comic Sans is fine, it's just that there are so many small "errors" [0] that make it a pain to look at.
[0] Many of which had perfectly valid reasons for the time.
how to use this in Pycharm , Notepad, etc in my work computer ?
/end old man rant
I wish the font was free, but there's always https://opendyslexic.org/
Seeing that there are paid versions designed specifically for this