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Personally I find Comic Sans easiest to read, as dyslexic. I even use a monospace version of the font for coding and in the terminal.

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I am not dyslexic and I use this font too, because it's easier on my eyes. I find myself increasingly thinking "Courier" when I look at it and have to remind myself its not, and I chose it.

Likewise I've used Fantasque Sans Mono (related to Comic Sans) for a long time as a coding font.

Have you tried any Dyslexic fonts, like https://opendyslexic.org/ ?

That’s fascinating do you have any insights as to why?

I think it's related to how irregular the shapes of the letters are. The circles are all slightly bent out of shape in different ways, and the line strokes all have slightly varying slants.

Most attempts at making a font try to make all that stuff as regular as possible, even the one in the article we're discussing does this.

Thank you that makes sense.

Would that by chance be the Pointfree font?

Dunno. It's just called Comic Mono.

https://dtinth.github.io/comic-mono-font/

You might be interested to give Comic Code [0] a try instead.

Unlike Comic Mono it is a paid font, but I find it a lot nicer to use/read.

[0] https://tosche.net/fonts/comic-code

I use Comic Code in my editors and console windows and really like it a lot. Adds some practical frivolity to the process!

I appreciate the double meaning of the name "Comic Code"! Well played!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comics_Code_Authority

Oof that k looks way too much like r to me

EDIT: the font the website uses, not comic-code

Another alternative Comic Sans-inspired mono font is Serious Shanns (which is actually forked from Comic Mono): https://github.com/kaBeech/serious-shanns

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