caskaydia-cove VS fantasque-sans

Cascadia Code with ligatures and nerd fonts.

Over 10 years I've used Inconsolata, moved to FiraCode, and then switched to Cascadia which is the best thing Microsoft has ever made.

It’s a font that supports ligatures. I use cascadia: https://github.com/microsoft/cascadia-code

Cascadia Mono is what you want. Or you can turn off ligatures for Cascadia Code in your terminal/IDE or set them to off in the text style (depending on whether you’re using it for coding or typesetting).

Firstly, if you don't have a Nerd Font, you can install Cascadia Code.

Cascadia Mono/Code, depending if I feel like having ligatures:

https://github.com/microsoft/cascadia-code

It has the option to enable cursive italics, which is disabled by default. Been using it for over a year. No complaints.

I prefer Cascadia Code

The theme relies on the Cascadia Code font. In my case, I just extracted the CascadiaCode.ttf file in my Download directory, I’m not sure if it will work out of the box for people trying to use the theme.

I like it a lot! Definitely in the camp of “comic sans is over-hated for poor reasons, and might even have legibility benefits for dyslexia”, and I considered a few comic sans inspired monospaced fonts before settling on Source Code Pro. The leaders were Fantasque (https://github.com/belluzj/fantasque-sans/) and Comic Code (https://tosche.net/fonts/comic-code). (Comic Code’s creator actually links to the font you linked, Comic Mono, as an example of a free font with the same spirit!)

Ultimately I found that anything descended from or inspired by comic sans ended up a little too busy for my eyes.

If paying for a font isn't your thing but you're curious this is a free version I used to use of a similar idea. https://github.com/belluzj/fantasque-sans

For Emacs I use Fantasque Sans Mono, which has a slashed zero and some other good features (e.g. clear difference between 1 and l).

I thought it would be silly or I would hate it, but the comic sans like nature of Fantasque Sans Mono really surprised me and worked well for coding/IDE use (especially in Python): https://github.com/belluzj/fantasque-sans

I know you didn't ask but I have mild dyslexia and a friend turned me on to the font he uses for coding called Fantasque Sans. I found it to be pleasantly readable like Comic Sans without being as stylistically offensive.

Fantasque Sans (https://github.com/belluzj/fantasque-sans) - I love it and use it for years in all editors! For terminal I use a patched variant of Ubuntu Mono.