The lowercase 'l' as done in Ubuntu Mono (but it's not the only font doing that) is IMHO the best way to do lowercase 'l'. I'm not using Ubuntu Mono: I use a font I modified myself (sort of a mix between "Terminus" and "Monaco") and I do the lowercase 'l' as in Ubuntu Mono. I don't know which font did this type of lowercase 'l' first.
I'm not surprised that a font doing a good job having unmistakable character picked that for 'l'.
EDIT: funnily enough reading my post all the lowercase 'L' do look like an uppercase 'I'. Yup. Precisely what we want to avoid ; ) (that or looking like a '1' or like a pipe character).
I use this font in many places, and it gives people 2-3 years my junior nervous twitches. They associate it with events like "thing has gone wrong, time to reinstall windows".
I remember back in the early 2000s, having a QBASIC window open was enough to make most people say "you broke it". A blue screen covered in IBM VGA was firmly established as a bad sign by that point.
Welp, now I feel old because I remember in 94 when it was the cool new font. I worked for an Early Childhood Education grant and we started using it on our forms to parents. Amazingly, it got a better response than the Courier New that was used on the official forms.
This font tries to increase cognitive ease by keeping the characters at the same width, but I don't think other popular monospace fonts aren't legible. I use Ubuntu Mono and have had no problems. I never understood why people use cursive fonts for code, which truly is illegible at times.
Comic Sans has a reputation for being more accessible for dyslexic people, presumably because the glyphs are more easily distinguishable. (Though I wonder if making it monospace negates that advantage somewhat)
I am not going to check every study here, which are helpfully not hyperlinked, but every one I checked showed no effect at all. Kind of disingenuous I think.
It increases cognitive ease compared to what it intends to replace, which are other Comic Sans monospace fonts. I don't think it is claiming to be a cognitive improvement above all monospace fonts, unless they are saying that being comic-style is itself such an improvement.
I prefer Comic Code too. It's missing a few ligatures and it has a rendering bug on the T on windows with some sizes, but it's still my default font in vscode.
Correction: Those are remains of some other font which the author modified to make the Comicmono. So "ä" and "a" look different and the size is not exactly right.
Yeah, I did find that gimmicky too. But if you click on that screenshot, it leads to a webpage typed completely in that font, so you can properly admire that.
Anyway, I'm genuinely surprised some people here don't treat that as a joke and are really using it for code editing, but whatever, anything is legit if you can read it. So I wouldn't complain about the diagonal screenshot either.
Surprised to see Fantasque Sans Mono[1] not mentioned yet. It's the best "comic"-style font I was aware of, which I used for coding/terminal for a long time (I currently use Victor Mono[2]).
Yes? It's literally the first line of the repo description.
> A legible monospace font... the very typeface you’ve been trained to recognize since childhood. This font is a fork of Shannon Miwa’s Comic Shanns (version 1).
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https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Ubuntu+Mono?preview.text=!...
I'm not surprised that a font doing a good job having unmistakable character picked that for 'l'.
EDIT: funnily enough reading my post all the lowercase 'L' do look like an uppercase 'I'. Yup. Precisely what we want to avoid ; ) (that or looking like a '1' or like a pipe character).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andal%C3%A9_Mono
Comic sans debuted in 1994, so, uh...no.
Edit: Yes, I'm aware some people were children in this general time period :)
That just triggered an old memory from very early me playing around with clip-art and transitions on PowerPoint.
(IBM VGA 9x16 font, used by MSDOS and pretty much every PC from the mid 80s to 90s)
I never saw the IBM monochrome that shipped with the original PC. I certainly saw a lot of CGA.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercules_Graphics_Card
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_Graphics_Adapter
http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~sedwards/apple2fpga/FPGA-FDEDL.j...
https://opendyslexic.org/
https://opendyslexic.org/related-research-1
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7188700/#!po=34...
I am not going to check every study here, which are helpfully not hyperlinked, but every one I checked showed no effect at all. Kind of disingenuous I think.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5629233/
"Results demonstrate that the group of pupils with dyslexia read significantly more accurately, with fewer errors, when using OpenDyslexic font."
1: https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/tabular-type-foundry/comic-cod...
Just let me read the damn thing! This seems a bit ridiculous to me.
Anyway, I'm genuinely surprised some people here don't treat that as a joke and are really using it for code editing, but whatever, anything is legit if you can read it. So I wouldn't complain about the diagonal screenshot either.
[1] https://github.com/belluzj/fantasque-sans/
[2] https://rubjo.github.io/victor-mono/
> A legible monospace font... the very typeface you’ve been trained to recognize since childhood. This font is a fork of Shannon Miwa’s Comic Shanns (version 1).