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When comparing Hermit vs Comic Mono, the Slant community recommends Hermit for most people. In the question“What are the best programming fonts?” Hermit is ranked 75th while Comic Mono is ranked 127th. The most important reason people chose Hermit is:
The design of Hermit is clear and legible.
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Pros
Pro Good design
The design of Hermit is clear and legible.
Pro OFL licensed
This means that the font is free and open source.
Pro Provides improvements over Comic Sans, according to best monospace fonts practices
Lower case el ("l") now is almost indistinguishable from one ("1").
Pro Best font in the world now comes in monospace
For people that are using Comic Sans for everything. Now it can be used for programming more efficiently.
Pro Goes well with Comic Sans
Cons
Con Bold weight has larger width & height
Makes mixing bold/regular weight cause un-even spacing
https://github.com/pcaro90/hermit/issues/5
Con Single-storey lowercase 'a' (ey)
Looks like lowercase 'o' (oh).
Con Lower case letter m is just not as wacky as the original
