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.
Is comic sans the Taylor Swift of fonts?
Hating comic sans is a meme. It was overused and thus received backlash, and now the backlash has been going on longer that the trend it was in response to.
The trend was like 3 years, and the hate has been going on for like 25 years.
The trend has never stopped where I’m from. The hate is burning as bright as ever.
True it was overused at one point. I guess a lot of the hate is just exaggerated from people getting annoyed how much it showed up in resumes and official documents as well as being used by amateur graphics designers . Which is fair. The font itself I think still serves a purpose when used correctly.
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.
Keep that font out of your damned mouth! 😂
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.
The monospaced version is the best terminal font I’ve ever used. I can find information on the screen way faster.
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.
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 use monospaced comic sans for programming. The font is just easier on the eyes.
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 helps me read better as someone with dyslexia, I hate the look but it’s useful. I use open dyslexic but it’s basically Comic Sans.
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.
It is good.
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
