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I have a confession to make... I code in Comic Sans (dtinth.github.io)
submitted 1 year ago by KerPop47@lemmy.world to c/programming@beehaw.org
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Seriously, though, Comic Sans was originally designed to be legible at the smallest possible font size, and the lack of hard lines makes it easier to read!

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[–] KerPop47@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I recently read a review of 1990s pop aesthetics, and it was probably intentional for reasons that resonate with us again. In the 90s, with the advent of omnipresent computers, organic, amateurish handwriting became really popular, and I think that's what comic sans is good at looking like.