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i made reading cards for my kids in comic sans because it’s one of the few fonts with the normal lower case a and g
by foolfoolz 6y ago
i made reading cards for my kids in comic sans because it’s one of the few fonts with the normal lower case a and g
- amake 6y agoThey’re clearly not “normal” if most fonts don’t have them (as default glyphs; many fonts have them as alternates).
- samcheng 6y agoBy "normal" he means the glyph we are taught to write by hand, which is also the glyph young children are taught to identify individual letters.
- userbinator 6y agoI personally write, and have seen many others use as well, the "two-storey" a and g, so I suspect there's regional variation.
- amake 6y agoYes, my point was that that is a very narrow view of “normal”.
- Dylan16807 6y agoThat's what context does, it narrows!
- other_herbert 6y agolook at “Annika” it’s designed to be legible for early readers Edit: not that comic sans is a bad choice I’ve just been working on things related to this and found that other font
- geofft 6y agoSearching for it - I think you're referring to "Andika"? https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Andika https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Andika https://software.sil.org/andika/ https://software.sil.org/andika/
- user2994cb 6y agoSassoon is designed for that purpose, this version seems OK: https://www.wfonts.com/font/sassoon https://www.wfonts.com/font/sassoon
- jasomill 6y agoYou're not wrong. As fan of single-storey (your "normal") "a" and "g", a few additional examples do, however, come immediately to mind: Classic example: Futura. Modern examples: Apple fonts: Monaco uses both single-storey "a" and "g"; San Francisco uses single-storey "g" by default, and includes single-storey "a" in stylistic sets. The Adobe Source (Code, Sans) and IBM Plex (Sans, Serif, Mono) font families include both single-storey "a" and "g" as alternate glyphs accessible through OpenType stylistic sets.
- michaelcampbell 6y agoI always felt somehow ashamed for liking the 'a' in Monaco.