spleen VS fantasque-sans

If it helps, these days I disable anti-aliasing (all hinting actually) and use a bitmap font such as Spleen. Not particularly pretty but very easy and crisp on the eyes.

It reminds me more of Spleen, but it's not it either

>the font is Spleen

Spleen

Your font is cool, ignore the downvotes. It reminds me a bit of the default console font on OpenBSD, Spleen [1].

[1] https://www.cambus.net/spleen-monospaced-bitmap-fonts/

The Spleen font has, among other sizes, the 5x8, which is pretty similar. It's the default for OpenBSD drm console, although using a different size. It's constantly being updated.

https://github.com/fcambus/spleen

OpenBSD's default console font Spleen has a 5x8 version which, which is fairly legible while still looking nice:

https://github.com/fcambus/spleen

Any smaller than that and you're getting into ugly territory.

Are you familiar with the Spleen font? It’s very readable at 5x8 pixels and combines full ASCII support with things like box-drawing characters.

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.