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After a while I wondered if he'd ever actually defend it, but he does: > Comic Sans, I have learned, is also a typeface favored by the British Dyslexia Associa
by ben509 7y ago
After a while I wondered if he'd ever actually defend it, but he does:
> Comic Sans, I have learned, is also a typeface favored by the British Dyslexia Association...
> I like the spaciousness it allows between letters.
> I can see an entire sentence in it as I can in no other typeface.
> I feel it provides a clarity for me as a writer that is helpful in revising my writing — and revising, it has been noted, is what writing is really all about.
If I were writing this kind of defense on another subject, it'd go like this:
> In defense of spoons:
> I find that I have to butter my toast with them slowly and carefully.
> I feel that as I'm carving a turkey, the bluntness helps me take my time and the spoon is quite good at breaking the joints apart.
It seems like a sane defense of Comic Sans is that it's great for lettering comics and short, playful announcements. If you're dyslexic and don't have a proper font like OpenDyslexic, it's useful there, too.
Not all fonts need to be as universal as Helvetica.
- yiyus 7y ago> It seems like a sane defense of Comic Sans is that it's great for lettering comics A comic typed in Comic Sans has the same problems of a novel in Comic Sans or an advertisement in Comic Sans. Unless it is done on purpose in some sarcastic way, it's perceived as a sign of low quality and bad design. Actually, most professional comics use custom fonts, and choosing the type face is a relatively common topic of discussion between comic authors and editors.
- atoav 7y agoThe criticism on Comic Sans consists of two factions: - Designers who often critizise weird usage of the font (e.g. it is great for a birthday party invitation and bad for a stern warning inholving serious danger) - people who misread that criticism, hop onto a bandwaggon of their own making and say the font is bad as a whole, because it is not “serious” Anybody knoes that papyrus font? This had a similar story, with sometimes absurd usages.
- ricc 7y agoI’m probably one of those who use the Papyrus font a tad too often when I was in high school...