When comparing Mononoki vs Comic Mono, the Slant community recommends Mononoki for most people. In the question“What are the best programming fonts?” Mononoki is ranked 29th while Comic Mono is ranked 127th. The most important reason people chose Mononoki is:
Characters are well-differentiated and render clearly. Punctuation is large and easy to see. All characters are easily distinguishable from other similar-looking characters.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Very legible
Characters are well-differentiated and render clearly. Punctuation is large and easy to see. All characters are easily distinguishable from other similar-looking characters.
Pro Very smooth
This font is smooth and beautiful.
Pro Works on cheap displays
Specifically designed to work well on low resolution displays (in addition to high resolution displays).
Pro Nice italic characters
Pro Works at low pixel sizes
9px +!
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 No ligatures
Con Parenthesis
Asymmetric and too bulbous.
Con Not found by default in any system
Con Single-storey lowercase 'a' (ey)
Looks like lowercase 'o' (oh).