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Comic Mono

Designed By

Shannon Miwa, dtinth

2 Styles Monospace

Type Specimen / 01Il1 O0
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Comic Mono · Regular

Compare letter widths, punctuation and figures in an aligned setting.

2 styles available. Compare the specimens below, or enter your own text.

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TTF · MIT License

Set Your Own Text

Change the style and size to compare the letterforms.

git commit -m oops

Every Position Counts

Comic Mono · Regular

Equal-width letters and figures.

Specimen.js

const family = "Comic Mono";

function specimen(size) {
  return { family, size };
}

specimen(24);

0123456789

9876543210

Il1 O0 {} []

2 Styles,
One Family

Every available style is shown below in its own font file.

Regular400

git commit -m oops

Bold700

git commit -m oops

Comic Sans in a code editor was a joke long before it was a file you could install. Shannon Miwa made Comic Shanns, a monospaced take for terminals, and Comic Mono is a fork of its first version, by a software developer whose README owns up to having no font creation skills.

The work itself is a Python script. It forces every glyph to exactly the same width with code based on monospacifier, borrows the metrics of Cousine so the font sits better beside system fonts, renames the result, and produces the Bold by running FontForge’s Embolden over the Regular. Nobody drew that Bold, it was computed.

The character set stops at basic ASCII plus curly quotes and dashes, and there are no OpenType features. No accents either. The README also names later forks of the idea, Serious Shanns and Comic Shanns Mono.

Would we write a whole project in it? For a week, maybe. On a projector in a classroom it reads friendlier than most code fonts do, and that is a fair reason to keep it around.

Comic Mono type specimen with letters and figures
Comic Mono · Type Specimen

Characters & Figures

103 glyphs reported in the reference style. This selection shows 102 recorded characters.

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 & @ ? !

View The Recorded Character Selection
!"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~–—‘’‚“”•

The Font Files

Download
Comic Mono

2 TTF styles with the accompanying CSS, README and license information.

Download ZIP · 31 KB ↓
Version
0.1.1
License
MIT License
Read The Font License ↗

Install On Your Computer

Extract the ZIP first. On Windows, select the font files and choose Install from the context menu. On macOS, open the files in Font Book and choose Install.

Use On A Website

Keep the font files and the included stylesheet together. Update the stylesheet path to match your project.

<link rel="stylesheet"
  href="/fonts/comic-mono/comic-mono.css">

body {
  font-family: 'Comic Mono', monospace;
}

Keep the copyright and license notices with redistributed files.

Heading & Body

The family provides the heading; Inter carries the supporting text.

Comic Mono Heading · Inter Body

Letters, Figures & Code

Names, values and punctuation share a fixed rhythm. Compare the zero with the capital O, and the number one with the lowercase l.