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Is "with a fun, whimsical look, inspired by Comic Sans Serif" something someone wanted?

> Is [...] Comic Sans Serif something someone wanted?

Maybe. What comes to mind is OpenBSD. In the OpenBSD community, developers use Comic Sans exclusively in all official slideshows. One purpose is making an in-joke, another purpose is trolling everyone else not genuinely interested in system development ("Weaponized Comic Sans. This page scientifically designed to troll web hipsters.") [0]

[0] https://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan14-libressl/mgp00025.ht...

When I'm in the right mood, I use Comic Code[1] for my terminal, along with a different palette than my normal "working" environment. Even if it's just placebo, it helps me shake up my thinking a bit.

[1] https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/tabular-type-foundry/comic-cod...

I actually use it for real work. It fixed a lot of problems for Comic Sans and is surprisingly comfortable to read.

When I was doing stuff for a pre-Head Start research project, Comic Sans was a great font to do forms in. It went with the program and people were less stressed by the forms even though they asked the same information as the old ones. I really wish someone would have studied that.

I sorta dig it, looks fun and artistic. I don't know what's wrong with "W" though. Not sure if my browser is rendering is bad or there is a bug, because it doesn't look like rest of the ligatures, it looks nothing like "M".

EDIT: In case people are wondering this is what I see: https://imgur.com/a/P3npCYW

As you see W looks "bolder" (?) than others.

> https://imgur.com/a/P3npCYW

Please link to the actual image ( https://i.imgur.com/qMshely.png ), not imgur's gallery crapware.

But yeah, the "W" and to a lesser extent the "o" look more heavily struck than the rest of the letters. (Same problem shows up in font viewer, so it's definitely not just your browser.)

The original APL385 font is one of my favorites for coding.

Is it also a fun, whimsical look inspired by Comic Sans?

It definitely looks like it could be.

It reminds me of some old-school typewriter and printer fonts, and indeed it's a lot like Consolas.

I like it, though some of the spacing is odd (might be able to fix it even if it is a monospaced font.)

Absolutely. See Fantasque for example.

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