Serious Sans
A legible monospaced font for folks who enjoy life. This font is a fork of dtinth’s Comic Mono (version 0.1.1), which in turn is a fork of Shannon Miwa’s Comic Shanns (version 1).
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What?
Serious Sans is a legible monospaced font made to resemble the classic Comic Sans font we all know and love. It is designed to be suitable for professional coding use while retaining the playfulness of the original
Why?
To overcome writers' block, some writers change the font of their word processor to Comic Sans. Perhaps the jaunty style helps put their brains in a playful mood so they can just write without getting hung up in self-criticism
Serious Sans aims to provide that same experience for programmers and their IDE's. We also enjoy playful styling and tools that help us just get to work. But most of us like to have certain standards that make our type of work easier. Monospacing and legibility are important factors that facilitate quick scanning of screens of text
Legibility
Legibility means being able to quickly tell which character is which. In fonts with low legibility, for example, it can be difficult to tell the difference between an upper case 'I' and a numeral '1'
Monospacing
Monospacing means making every character have the same width. This is helpful to quickly line up rows of text. For an example of why this is helpful, consider adding up a dinner bill:
Drinks: $23.68 Appetizers: $8.73 Entrees: $38.26 Dessert: $9.74 Tip: +$28.26
=$24.00
Trying to get all those numbers to line up for easy adding would be a pain!
Origins
I originally changed the font in my IDE to Comic Mono as a joke. I decided to leave it that way for fun, and found that it actually seems to help my mindset while working. I made Serious Sans as my own leetle fork to improve the usability of the font ^_^
Differences from Comic Mono
- I edited the 'a' to make it look less like an 'o'
- Currently there is no bold version. I will make a bold version of some sort but I have not yet done so Note: you can ignore the extra files in this repo - they just build the original Comic Mono font. I haven't decided if I'm going to modify or remove them yet
License
It is licensed under the MIT License.
Note
Please note that this font is in no way affiliated with the delightful Serious Sans Pro font. I just like classic PC games ^_^