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My first job as a programmer, I took over some guy's workstation who was using Comic Sans. I continued to use it for years. Quite an odd choice, but you grow to like it.

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Chocolat, on the mac, switches to comic sans when the trial runs out. Using it for a couple weeks before jumping to the full version, I can vouch for that it's actually surprisingly good for writing code. Much better than most proportional fonts.

But does "surprisingly good" actually mean "good", or just "not as bad as every other proportional font"?

I think there is an editor out there that actually is free to use but only lets you use Comic Sans as punishment until you pay.

You're thinking about Chocolat. There's a free demo, after which the font switches to Comic Sans until you buy a license.

I used Comic Sans with that app for a week before jumping to Sublime Text 2. :)

Scite uses Comic Sans by default/

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