I use Comic Sans for all my messaging apps. It’s the most readable font around. People make fun of me when they see it but whatever.
Comic Mono
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#102I actually... don’t mind it? What is wrong with me
I'm also here with you. I don't get the issue. I know some fonts are more easily readable than others. I can understand the argument that maybe some fonts cause more strain than others. But there are other commenters who are saying that this font type is evoking emotions from them, particularly negative emotional ones. I don't get it.
My hot take is that Hacker News isn’t immune from having an online community status quo, it’s just a different one. The averaged out HN perspective is one of hyperbolic ridicule. And honestly it’s fine! You’ll never have an online community without this effect, or really any community. The same group also generates extremely useful content more often than not, I’m still thankful we have this :)
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#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
apparently not as well as other some other fonts that are generally considered less ugly http://dyslexiahelp.umich.edu/sites/default/files/good_fonts...
this is not a conclusion of the study you linked to.
hmm, you're right I got confused by the reference L. Evett and D. Brown. Text formats and web design for visually impaired and dyslexic readers-clear text for all. Interacting with Computers, 17:453–472, 2005. and took it to mean that they recommended Comic Sans for visually impaired readers with dyslexia as well, but it seems they don't have comic sans in the list of fonts they actually tested.
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#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've always been quite irritated by the amount of disdain toward Comic Sans. Partly because I feel like this is such an easy target, and people who have just learned 2 or 3 things about typography are very keen on bashing Comic Sans to show off their newly acquired knowledge. Partly because, let's face it, it's not that bad. What it does, it does well, it's pretty legible, no glyph stands out from the general harmony…
Comic Sans is the Britney Spears of fonts. Overused/Overplayed. Legible/Catchy. Well crafted for its original purpose. Gets no respect. Probably deserves a little, but it makes you feel dirty to give it.
Not sure it’s Britney.
Comic Sans has no ambition; is chosen despite itself; is hyper-ordinary.
It’s the supermarket’s-own-brand ramen noodles of typefaces.
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This is why Bertrand Meyer formats all his lecture slides this way. See e.g. http://se.inf.ethz.ch/courses/2013a_spring/JavaCSharp/lectur... It's readable enough for students to refer back to, but ugly enough that they prefer listening instead of reading along.
Simon Peyton Jones (Haskell committee) also formats all his lecture slides in Comic Sans: https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/1bd1ia/spj_and_com...
OpenBSD people have "weaponized" Comic Sans by confronting them about font bikeshedding instead of caring about what actually matters: https://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan14-libressl/mgp00025.ht...
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#106Comic Sans and its descendants are... indestructible . No matter how much some font designers complain about it, and how often they criticize it, Comic Sans keeps coming back, like the Terminator: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_Sans#Reception_and_use_i... Among the most incongruous uses of Comic Sans I've seen, a few stand out: * A plaque on a large statue of a historical figure in a public space: https://www.bi…
I think Comic Sans was also used in ESA's presentation of breakthrough black hole photos.
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#107When writing my dissertation, I found that changing the font to Comic Sans or Papyrus is an effective way of forcing myself to be self-critical and preventing myself from, for lack of a better phrase, "falling in love" with what I wrote (the "scholarly" classic-looking fonts like Sabon, Garamond, Baskerville tend to have that effect on me)
This is why Bertrand Meyer formats all his lecture slides this way. See e.g. http://se.inf.ethz.ch/courses/2013a_spring/JavaCSharp/lectur... It's readable enough for students to refer back to, but ugly enough that they prefer listening instead of reading along.
I'm surprised companies don't typeset their EULAs in Comic Sans.
But on second thought, I guess users don't read them anyway.
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#108There's something very pleasing about the monospacing with this particular font. Font people-- any idea why I would enjoy the aesthetics of the monospaced version so much more than the old variable-width version?
I totally agree with you. I’m no fan of Comic Sans, but monospaced it’s really quite nice. I think Comic Shanns does things like set all the characters on the baseline, eliminate goofy tilting, etc. The letter shapes themselves are nice.
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#109I know I'm in the minority but this actually looks like a fun font.
I think I'll set my terminal to it
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#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
Comic Sans is the Britney Spears of fonts. Overused/Overplayed. Legible/Catchy. Well crafted for its original purpose. Gets no respect. Probably deserves a little, but it makes you feel dirty to give it.
Not sure it’s Britney. Comic Sans has no ambition; is chosen despite itself; is hyper-ordinary. It’s the supermarket’s-own-brand ramen noodles of typefaces.
And I’m sure those ramen sell well. Fact is, not many people care.
If you have a product that doesn’t target designers or the like, does it really matter?