I was going to make a post on unpopular opinions saying comic sans is not as bad as people make it out to be and can be useful in some cases since it is easier to read. But decided not to because I wasnt sure kbin/lemmy felt about it.
It’s not easier to read, I’m not sure where that myth came from. There’s fonts specifically designed to be easier to read for dyslexics and they look nothing like comic sans.
Some people just want to make excuses for their questionable typographical decisions I guess.
Some of those fonts are directly inspired by Comic Sans… such as Lexia Readable and you’d be pretty hard pressed to say Dyslexie doesn’t take inspiration from Comic Sans. I have Open Dyslexic on my pc and a few people have made a comment about it being comic sans.
I used it for its true purpose back in the day, for Microsoft Comic Chat.
It’s like almost nobody remembers that … that’s a thing that existed.
We tend to suppress traumatic memories, like freeing up lower ram with himem.sys and friends to load Novell NetWare network drivers.
Dear God, it’s all coming back to me! 😭
I remember figuring out a 10-Base-T network to get LAN Quake running, and dealing with Himem.sys and things like Sound cards needing to be put on IRQ 11 or IRQ 13 because they wouldn’t work anywhere else.
All the emergency signs in my old office were in comic sans. I thought it was rather funny
The monospaced version is the best terminal font I’ve ever used. I can find information on the screen way faster.
I use monospaced comic sans for programming. The font is just easier on the eyes.
Yes! I came here to shill for Comic Mono! I don’t use any other monospace fonts since I started with it.
wtf I kinda love this. Thanks for sharing!
Comic Code is also great
I don’t really use it for anything. Though I imagine it would would make it easier to read having comic sans in white on a dark terminal.
Keep that font out of your damned mouth! 😂
Avoid it when you want to be taken seriously.
I seem to recall that its main issue was that it used more ink when printing. Not sure about that but I print like two documents a year so I havent really checked.
It’s not as good as Comic Serif.
Good option for dyslexics if no actual dyslexic font exsists
It depends on the messages, if the message is more important than the delivery, then any font is fine.
I think that it’s a pretty decent typeface – it looks decent and successfully evokes comic book text. But because Microsoft bundled it with its OS, where it was one of the few distinct-looking typefaces, it became overused, got put in a lot of material where it wasn’t really a great choice.
But I won’t blame the typeface for people using it in inappropriate spots.
I used to have a number of typefaces used for various things, but I kind of stopped messing around with decorative fonts once I wanted wide Unicode support.
Beside everything else it is certainly nonfree proprietary software. I prefer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_Neue
Thank you I never really used comic sans but Comic Neue looks really nice. I think I might actually use that.
made for a very specific reason and got overused in the wrong contexts
I would rather use Comic Sans than the current trend of all these unreadable fonts people use for labels and signage. https://www.thedesignhippo.com/best-cricut-font/ https://www.creativefabrica.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/20/Meghan-Fonts-34546508-10-580x387.jpg
https://www.creativefabrica.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/20/Meghan-Fonts-34546508-10-580x387.jpg
Is that Winstone or Winslove?
If you use it while trying to write a paper, you can actually write faster/more easily, so I tried it out myself, switched the font, and it actually did help. I do switch the font back to something more professional if I’m sharing what I wrote, though.
