I really do love the fun IDE colors.
Does anyone else switch IDE themes depending on the project? Whenever I started a new project I would choose a new theme to go with it.
Nope, it’s all light theme with comic sans and small caps for me
Don’t you mean Comic Mono you monster?
I prefer original Comic Sans. How Comic Mono has all characters forced to the same width makes it uglier and less readable, especially capital letters.
Mono spaced fonts are used when writing code , usually. Or in a terminal emulator.
Right. But monospacedness is not a requirement for programming fonts. So I often promote proportional fonts for programming because they are better IMO. I mean that variable width allows fonts more potential to be good at what I want from fonts, not that every proportional font of better.
And Comic Sans is missing small-caps versions of the letters ᴀᴄᴅᴇᴊᴋᴍɴᴏᴘᴏᴛᴜᴠᴡᴢ (which is most of them), which would put reading your code from hard to nightmare difficulty.
I don’t have any colors to suggest but I do have two fonts to recommend.
- Comic Code is a hand drawn monospaced font that invokes the feeling of Comic Sans without looking bad on modern monitors. I love it. The downside is that it isn’t free, but if you’re interested,
- Fantasque Sans Mono is the same idea but free.
These two fonts just make things feel a little more human and whimsical in a way I can’t fully explain and I love them.
Also, about color themes, never let anyone make fun of you for using a light theme. Sometimes they’re better. It’s not so simple as dark or light, some tools have awful light themes or awful dark themes.
Just some more font suggestions, these are not monospaced but just interesting fonts:
- Atkinson Hyperlegible is a font that is meant to be more accessible but not sacrifice aesthetics. I think it is gorgeous. A great video by Linus Boman on the topic.
- Input is a font that can be either monospaced or proportional, you can customize it. In the magical future where Elastic Tabstops catch on this font would be perfect.
I Like Input Sans for programming. iA Writer Quattro is similar to that. Now, I use for programming Recursive, a variable font with variable monospacedness among others. It has a configurator where all axes and features can be fixed for better compatibility.
