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My coding font is comic-shanns-mono, here's how it looks: https://github.com/jesusmgg/comic-shanns-mono?tab=readme-ov-...

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Reminds me of the original Smalltalk font.

Cream is a very distinctive font. It’s perfect for Smalltalk. In the 1980s I remade it for the Apple II to be used in a game. Obviously very little text would fit on the screen it was used for.

I was intrigued by a font called Codemonkey. This site has lots of classic comic fonts, including WildWords which is used in pretty much every manga translation.

https://www.comicbookfonts.com/Code-Monkey-Variable-font-p/b...

Unfortunately plus signs display as blank spaces in the test drive. Oh well.

Comic Code Ligatures for me :D

Same. It has a double-storey a, which I prefer a lot.

Yeah, a few years ago I tried the free ones, but eventually settled on Comic Code. I've been using it ever since - it's pleasant to code with. (If anyone is considering this - the "essentials" set with bold/italic is around $30. You don't need the full set.)

I initially used this one when I started playing around with Zed on a personal project, but I kept it and it has grown on me considerably.

similar situation here, but i used it because i thought it was funny... then kept it because it grew on me haha. had it for a few years, might give it a spin again

I also use comic-shanns, btw https://github.com/jaxvanyang/comic-shanns-nerd is a patched version in case you need nerd-font glyphs

i like that way more than i would have thought simply based on the name.

(I may also add that I'm using synthwave 84' in vscode, which adds neon effects on my code using text-shadow)

It's fun when we use software (and prodigious amounts of computation) to emulate the things people complained the most about in old hardware.

I use comic mono myself

Thanks, I hate it.

diabolical

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