Seriously, though, Comic Sans was originally designed to be legible at the smallest possible font size, and the lack of hard lines makes it easier to read!

  • NattyNatty2x4@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    I will forever believe the comic sans hate is one of the internet’s seemingly random circlejerks, like hating Imagine Dragons.

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      There were legitimate reasons from a design standpoint. It’s badly balanced, the spacing is inconsistent…and it was everywhere.

      Funny enough, I suspect what makes it a badly designed font might be why some people with dyslexia have an easier time reading with it. The badly balanced, poor spacing, probably made the letters in the font more distinguishable from one another.

      If you (or anyone else that’s interested) have the time, I think this article, “Why You Hate Comic Sans,” goes over all of it pretty well.

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        I recently read a review of 1990s pop aesthetics, and it was probably intentional for reasons that resonate with us again. In the 90s, with the advent of omnipresent computers, organic, amateurish handwriting became really popular, and I think that’s what comic sans is good at looking like.

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    I unironically love Comic Mono. I am not dyslexic, I have good eyesight, but I feel like I can read code so much more easily with it versus most other monospaced fonts.

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    A dude posted his neofetch on a Linux community and he uses fucking comic sans for his terminal. Probably will rot in hell

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      I think some of the reason might be that Comic sans used to have really bad kerning. But with a mono font it is not really an issue.

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      1 year ago

      Same thoughts here. Went in expecting to hate it instantly and found that it sort of looked nice.

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      Title is misleading, it’s a monospaced derivative of Comic Sans that’s actually nice, not actual Conic Sans.

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          I miss RES’s context feature now. Thank god this thread wasn’t too long, so I was able to find my comment you replied to in it in a reasonable amount of time.

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    Oh no, I was ready to pick up my pitchfork, but that is super legible. Brb, I need to go take a look at myself in the mirror…

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      Definitely makes sense considering some dyslexic people have found it helpful in terms of legibility

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        1 year ago

        Yep, it shares a lot of characteristics with fonts like Dyslexie, but without some of the more irritating (but helpful) gravity additions that throw off non-dyslexic readers and/or just look odd.

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    1 year ago

    Friendship ended with font gatekeeping and dogpiling, accessibility is my new best friend

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    As long as it’s a monospaced font I don’t really care what the font is. (Wingdings excluded)

    Might give it a try for a day.

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      That is so cool. I have no idea what to use it for but I just spent 10 minutes playing with the sliders.