Comic Mono: A Perfectly Legible Monospace Font

Comic Mono is a perfect choice for legible monospace font. It is based on Shannon Miwa's Comic Shanns and has been designed to offer maximum readability. It comes in two weights - Regular and Bold - and has been modified to ensure that all glyphs have the same width. Additionally, glyph metrics have been adjusted to ensure it looks great alongside system fonts, specifically Cousine's metrics. Ideal for any type of project, Comic Mono is the perfect font for those looking for a classic, yet modern font. It has been around since childhood, which makes it a great choice for anyone looking for a timeless typeface.

MIT License

Original work Copyright (c) 2018 Shannon Miwa
Modified work Copyright (c) 2019 dtinth

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Comic Mono
A legible monospace font… the very typeface you’ve been trained to recognize since childhood. This font is a fork of Shannon Miwa’s Comic Shanns (version 1).

Download
ComicMono.ttf
ComicMono-Bold.ttf
Differences from Comic Shanns
All glyphs have been adjusted to have exactly the same width (using code based on monospacifier).
The glyph metrics have been adjusted to make it display better alongside system font, based on Cousine’s metrics.
The name is changed to Comic Mono.
A bold version of the font is generated using FontForge’s Embolden operation.
I have no font creation skills; I’m just a software developer. This font family is created by patching the original font, Comic Shanns (v1), using a Python script, generate.py.

What does it look like?
#!/usr/bin/env python2
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

"""
Generates the Comic Mono font files based on Comic Shanns font.

Required files:
- vendor/comic-shanns.otf
- vendor/Cousine-Regular.ttf

Based on:
- monospacifier: https://github.com/cpitclaudel/monospacifier/blob/master/monospacifier.py
- YosemiteAndElCapitanSystemFontPatcher: https://github.com/dtinth/YosemiteAndElCapitanSystemFontPatcher/blob/master/bin/patch
"""

import os
import re
import sys

reload(sys)
sys.setdefaultencoding('UTF8')

import fontforge
import psMat
import unicodedata

def height(font):
return float(font.capHeight)

def adjust_height(source, template, scale):
source.selection.all()
source.transform(psMat.scale(height(template) / height(source)))
for attr in ['ascent', 'descent',
'hhea_ascent', 'hhea_ascent_add',
'hhea_linegap',
'hhea_descent', 'hhea_descent_add',
'os2_winascent', 'os2_winascent_add',
'os2_windescent', 'os2_windescent_add',
'os2_typoascent', 'os2_typoascent_add',
'os2_typodescent', 'os2_typodescent_add',
]:
setattr(source, attr, getattr(template, attr))
source.transform(psMat.scale(scale))

font = fontforge.open('vendor/comic-shanns.otf')
ref = fontforge.open('vendor/Cousine-Regular.ttf')
for g in font.glyphs():
uni = g.unicode
category = unicodedata.category(unichr(uni)) if 0 <= uni <= sys.maxunicode else None
if g.width > 0 and category not in ['Mn', 'Mc', 'Me']:
target_width = 510
if g.width != target_width:
delta = target_width - g.width
g.left_side_bearing += delta / 2
g.right_side_bearing += delta - g.left_side_bearing
g.width = target_width

font.familyname = 'Comic Mono'
font.version = '0.1.1'
font.comment = 'https://github.com/dtinth/comic-mono-font'
font.copyright = 'https://github.com/dtinth/comic-mono-font/blob/master/LICENSE'

adjust_height(font, ref, 0.875)
font.sfnt_names = [] # Get rid of 'Prefered Name' etc.
font.fontname = 'ComicMono'
font.fullname = 'Comic Mono'
font.generate('ComicMono.ttf')

font.selection.all()
font.fontname = 'ComicMono-Bold'
font.fullname = 'Comic Mono Bold'
font.weight = 'Bold'
font.changeWeight(32, "LCG", 0, 0, "squish")
font.generate('ComicMono-Bold.ttf')
CDN
You can use this font in your web pages by including the stylesheet. CDN is provided by jsDelivr.


npm Package
The contents of this package is also published to npm, although the font files are not optimized. See fontsource package (below) for a better option.

Packages published by third parties
Fontsource: @fontsource/comic-mono (thanks @DecliningLotus)
Arch Linux AUR: ttf-comic-mono-git (maintained by DBourgeoisat)
License
It is licensed under the MIT License.