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What it is
Are you the kind of person that uses Comic Sans in presentations? Do you lie awake every night dreaming about a world where you could write your code in Comic Sans where it looks just as beautiful as on your dear presentations? Wait no more! I present to you Comic Shanns! The Comic Sans inspired monospaced font that's coming to a terminal or editor near you!
Changelog
Update 2023-03 (v1.3.0)
- Added aditional characters, like ƿ and ∃.
Update 2023-02
- Added Braille characters (⢩ ⢪ ⢫ ⢬ ⢯ ⢿ ⣁ ⣂ ⣃ ⣇ ⠿ ⠾ ⠪⠘), usually used for progress indicators in terminals.
Update 2023-01
- Added simple box drawing characters.
- Removed obsolete versions. Updating the Condensed version is still in consideration.
- Completely separating this fork from the original from now on.
Update 2022
- Check the version in the mono folder.
- This version has fixed glyphs so that all of them are properly monospaced now.
- Also added a more condensed version.
Update 2020
- Added terrible accents
- Some math characters
- Adjusted horizontal metrics
- otf and ttf version
Usage
You can download it and install it like any other font.
Editing and Building
The source of the font is in src/ComicShannsMono-Regular.sfd. You can open it
with FontForge and export it to whatever format you want.
You can also use the script build.sh to build the font from the command line.
Tt wil generate the ttf and otf versions in fonts.
Make sure that fontforge is installed and in your path. Then run ./build.sh
$ ./build.sh
What does it look like?
Like if someone made a version of Comic Sans that is monospaced.
What's in it?
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
1234567890
~!@#$%^&*()-—+=;:"'<>,.?/\|[]{}?
- Some diacritics.
- Some math glyphs.
- Box drawing characters.
- Braille characters.
I need help with it...
File an issue, we'll see.
License
It is licensed under the MIT License.