Programming in Comic Sans

A little while into my first internship, I went looking for a monospace version of The Universally Hated font, because it felt like I had no clue what I was doing, and I thought it'd be funny if as much were visually obvious. I was amused to find pointfree.ttf and immediately installed it.

A few internships and a full time position later, and I'm still using it. It started as a joke, but I've since become attached.

In preparation for this post, I went searching for more monospace variants of Comic Sans, and I was pleasantly surprised to find that the family has grown over the last few years!

To install Pointfree on a fresh Ubuntu installation, I do the following

mkdir -p ~/.local/share/fonts
curl --location --output /tmp/pointfree.zip "https://dl.dafont.com/dl/?f=pointfree"
unzip -d /tmp/ /tmp/pointfree.zip
mv /tmp/pointfree.ttf ~/.local/share/fonts/
fc-cache -f -v
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface monospace-font-name 'Pointfree 11'

Alternatively, you could install ComicMono, but it doesn't feel quite right, so I'm sticking with Pointfree.

mkdir -p ~/.local/share/fonts
curl --location --output ~/.local/share/fonts/ComicMono.ttf "https://dtinth.github.io/comic-mono-font/ComicMono.ttf"
fc-cache -f -v
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface monospace-font-name 'Comic Mono 11'