It's super hard to read when you hijack scrolling (and do a poor job of it), regardless of the font used.
Microsoft isn't known for their high-quality design, be it fonts or UIs.
Kermit: A typeface for kids
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Re: Kermit: A typeface for kids
#112As someone teaching their 4 year old to read right now, I don't buy it. The text is long on "friendly" and random stuff like that, but that's not what I'm looking for in a font for kids. Just off the top of my head the "v" in there doesn't have a point on the bottom, which is one of the confusions my daughter has ("u" vs "v"). And I don't think the "n" needs the serif on the right foot, as that's not the "platonic" s…
At least the small letter "a" appears as it would when written by hand. All fonts that add the "hanger hook" on top of the small "a" irritate me.
Re: Kermit: A typeface for kids
#113It is unfortunate that this sort of mathematics wasn't available to the students who were creating the Euler font. https://tug.org/pubs/annals-18-19/euler-summary.pdf Another consideration which I'm surprised wasn't made use of is that letter recognition is overwhelmingly focused on the upper half of letters --- ages ago, there was a typeface developed which took advantage of that, providing variants of letters where…
Initial Teaching Alphabet perhaps? - a bit more radical than what you are describing though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial_Teaching_Alphabet
As the 'pedia page says, the main issue was transfer to mainstream letters. I came through infant school a year or two after this idea was abandoned in the UK. We did have the colour coded reading books mentioned though.
Re: Kermit: A typeface for kids
#114Maybe it's easy for kids to read, but I found the font too bold and the letters too close-together to read comfortably. I gave up before I could read all their justifications for those decisions. But that might've also been the weird scrolling behavior of the page that ruined it for me.
> letters too close-together The CSS has { letter-spacing: -.04rem; } It's across the entire site - no exclusion for this page (or for their .kermit-font class). So it appears they've missed the fact that they're altering the look-and-feel of the very font they're presenting in this post.
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Re: Kermit: A typeface for kids
#115Hmm, it looks like someone took comic sans and tried to make it more like arial. My first thought was that they made a boring version of comic sans.
Re: Kermit: A typeface for kids
#116> created by the type design studio Underware Is the company itself made to appeal to kids giggles
> For Underware designers Bas Jacobs, Akiem Helmling..making Kermit fun and playful was a way to put kids in a good mood
I lol'ed everytime they were underware designers
Re: Kermit: A typeface for kids
#117It's super hard to read when you hijack scrolling (and do a poor job of it), regardless of the font used.
yes, not only poorly implemented but also completely pointless Like, I kind of get it when it's part of some parallax effect, I get asked to make them all the time (and only do when I lose the argument)… but this is effing dumb.
Even then there's ways to do it that don't destroy the system-default scrolling behavior.
Re: Kermit: A typeface for kids
#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
As a former teacher who's done original research in educational psychology, I'd like to add that educational psychology is just a grab-bag of weak correlations whose discovery was motivated by, 'When I was a teacher, I saw ______ and that made me sad.' Any 'theory' is a just-so story that the researcher assembled from ideas they found aesthetically pleasing. It's not science; it's activity without achievement, becaus…
School administrators sometimes implement the stupidest policies based on correlations of various strengths. But even a strong correlation might have nothing to do with causation. E.g.: A school my wife used to work at is requiring all 8th graders to take algebra (normally a high-school-level class in the US) regardless of math aptitude because some study shows that 8th graders who take algebra have improved outcomes…
Continuing with the logic of that school, most wildly successful people were bullied at school.....
Re: Kermit: A typeface for kids
#119Wow, the lag as I scroll the page makes me sea sick, I had to stop reading. Why reimplement scrolling??
Re: Kermit: A typeface for kids
#120Wow, the lag as I scroll the page makes me sea sick, I had to stop reading. Why reimplement scrolling??
I came to post the same thing. I can't stand when sites hijack document scrolling.