> created by the type design studio Underware
Is the company itself made to appeal to kids
giggles
Kermit: A typeface for kids
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Re: Kermit: A typeface for kids
#62When new fonts are released, they always include what they tried to improve: readability, comprehension, etc. Just once I'd like to know what they sacrificed.
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#63Scroll hijacking on this website is atrocious. Ironic for a site that is focused on good design.
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#65Scroll hijacking on this website is atrocious. Ironic for a site that is focused on good design.
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#66> unpublished study is finding that adding prosody to text improves children’s comprehension. As a dyslexic software engineer who knows by heart a good number of the 50 tables in the open font type specification, I'd like to look into this in more detail but there is no code or paper published about this (yet). In the mean time, it would be nice for people stop using dyslexics as an excuse to motivate for their own s…
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…
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#67It's super hard to read when you hijack scrolling (and do a poor job of it), regardless of the font used.
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#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's certainly a large amount of anecdotal evidence that a decent percentage of dyslexic people benefit from using Comic Sans. I don't know if there has ever been a formal study though. There's also a view that all dyslexia doesn't have a single cause. If that is true, then there may be different things that are helpful depending on the exact cause.
Comic Sans is a great font. Kermit seems like an impressively shoddy imitation in my opinion.
Eldrich horrors like Comic sans may be discovered, but never created.
Kermit Sans is like an artist's imagining of Cthulhu gleaned from the rantings of a person driven insane from glimpsing its Eldrich form.
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#69Is there any evidence that any font has a positive impact on reading (beyond obviously bad fonts being slow)? I'm very suspicious of this whole idea.
It was claimed that OpenDyslexic could mitigate some of the common reading errors caused by dyslexia. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDyslexic
...At great expense and eye fatigue to everyone who doesn't have dyslexia presumably?
Looks like a terrible font.
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's certainly a large amount of anecdotal evidence that a decent percentage of dyslexic people benefit from using Comic Sans. I don't know if there has ever been a formal study though. There's also a view that all dyslexia doesn't have a single cause. If that is true, then there may be different things that are helpful depending on the exact cause.
Comic Sans is a great font. Kermit seems like an impressively shoddy imitation in my opinion.
As a neurotypical, Kermit Sans looks like it has the soul and intention of Comic Sans, but with the jankiness smoothed out. I quite like it.