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As I noticed most Comic Sans haters actually don't hate Comic Sans. It is actually fun little font, with the only fault of becoming a boring cliche due to overu

As I noticed most Comic Sans haters actually don't hate Comic Sans. It is actually fun little font, with the only fault of becoming a boring cliche due to overuse. Most of the hate comes from frequent improper use - fun little fonts have their place, but not at a funeral for example.

j45 2y ago
Too many people let themselves follow in participating in prejudice, whether it’s against programming languages, and fonts. Reading about it, Comic sans was a very different font at one time.
- politelemon 2y ago
  I see similar behaviour with pineapple on pizza, as well as nano. Easy targets make for almost pavlovian responses.
  - voidUpdate 2y ago
    Nano is good! Pineapple on pizza is in some circumstances. You should try the potato pizza they serve at CERN
Gualdrapo 2y ago
> fun little fonts have their place, but not at a funeral for example And definitely not when you're announcing the world you just found evidence of the existence of the Higgs boson https://www.theverge.com/2012/7/4/3136652/cern-scientists-comic-sans-higgs-boson https://www.theverge.com/2012/7/4/3136652/cern-scientists-co...
- srockets 2y ago
  Why not? This isn’t TED: the impressive stuff is the content, not the presentation.
- hnlmorg 2y ago
  (That’s referenced in the opening paragraph of the main article) I actually think that’s the perfect time to use that font. It’s a celebration font and breakthroughs in physics should be celebrated.
- yen223 2y ago
  If you verified the existence of the Higgs Boson you should be entitled to use any font your heart desires.
  - shawn_w 2y ago
    Even Wingdings?
    - ykonstant 2y ago
      Especially Wingdings; it really conveys the effort that went into the research.
- prmoustache 2y ago
  It was not in a scientific paper but in the presentation, were a legible letter, even seen from far in the conference room, is more important than anything.
- beardyw 2y ago
  Publishing important papers in Latin has also fallen out of favour.
- somat 2y ago
  It's a sort of shibboleth, a filter to separate the audience into two groups. do you care about the evidence of the higgs boson or do you care about the use of that infernal font. Quite often people from the openbsd project will use the font in their presentations, to much the same effect. Which as a harmless sort of trolling, I find hilarious. They even went out of their way to encode it as the default font on their web server. http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/src/usr.sbin/httpd/server_http.c?rev=1.2&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/src/usr.sbin/httpd/server_http.c?r... http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.sbin/httpd/server_http.c.diff?r1=1.1&r2=1.2 http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.sbin/httpd/...
- fastneutron 2y ago
  There must be some kind of inside joke at CERN about this. I’ve sat through more than a few conference talks by CERN researchers (not even LHC affiliated) where Comic Sans was the default font on the presentation slides.
srockets 2y ago
Comic sans was created due to the improper use of Times New Roman in Microsoft Bob’s speech balloons[1], but it turns out to be quite useful: the significant differences between the glyphs make it very dyslexic-friendly. —-- [1] http://www.connare.com/whycomic.htm http://www.connare.com/whycomic.htm
- mrob 2y ago
  I'm not aware of any scientific research using Comic Sans itself, but a font designed specifically to aid dyslexics using the supposedly beneficial features found in Comic Sans failed to help: "Dyslexie font does not benefit reading in children with or without dyslexia" https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11881-017-0154-6 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11881-017-0154-6 But it didn't do any harm either, so if you like Comic Sans you might as well stick with it.

j45 2y ago

Too many people let themselves follow in participating in prejudice, whether it’s against programming languages, and fonts. Reading about it, Comic sans was a very different font at one time.

politelemon 2y ago
I see similar behaviour with pineapple on pizza, as well as nano. Easy targets make for almost pavlovian responses.
- voidUpdate 2y ago
  Nano is good! Pineapple on pizza is in some circumstances. You should try the potato pizza they serve at CERN

Gualdrapo 2y ago

> fun little fonts have their place, but not at a funeral for example And definitely not when you're announcing the world you just found evidence of the existence of the Higgs boson https://www.theverge.com/2012/7/4/3136652/cern-scientists-comic-sans-higgs-boson https://www.theverge.com/2012/7/4/3136652/cern-scientists-co...

srockets 2y ago
Why not? This isn’t TED: the impressive stuff is the content, not the presentation.
hnlmorg 2y ago
(That’s referenced in the opening paragraph of the main article) I actually think that’s the perfect time to use that font. It’s a celebration font and breakthroughs in physics should be celebrated.
yen223 2y ago
If you verified the existence of the Higgs Boson you should be entitled to use any font your heart desires.
- shawn_w 2y ago
  Even Wingdings?
  - ykonstant 2y ago
    Especially Wingdings; it really conveys the effort that went into the research.
prmoustache 2y ago
It was not in a scientific paper but in the presentation, were a legible letter, even seen from far in the conference room, is more important than anything.
beardyw 2y ago
Publishing important papers in Latin has also fallen out of favour.
somat 2y ago
It's a sort of shibboleth, a filter to separate the audience into two groups. do you care about the evidence of the higgs boson or do you care about the use of that infernal font. Quite often people from the openbsd project will use the font in their presentations, to much the same effect. Which as a harmless sort of trolling, I find hilarious. They even went out of their way to encode it as the default font on their web server. http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/src/usr.sbin/httpd/server_http.c?rev=1.2&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/src/usr.sbin/httpd/server_http.c?r... http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.sbin/httpd/server_http.c.diff?r1=1.1&r2=1.2 http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.sbin/httpd/...
fastneutron 2y ago
There must be some kind of inside joke at CERN about this. I’ve sat through more than a few conference talks by CERN researchers (not even LHC affiliated) where Comic Sans was the default font on the presentation slides.

srockets 2y ago

Comic sans was created due to the improper use of Times New Roman in Microsoft Bob’s speech balloons[1], but it turns out to be quite useful: the significant differences between the glyphs make it very dyslexic-friendly. —-- [1] http://www.connare.com/whycomic.htm http://www.connare.com/whycomic.htm

mrob 2y ago
I'm not aware of any scientific research using Comic Sans itself, but a font designed specifically to aid dyslexics using the supposedly beneficial features found in Comic Sans failed to help: "Dyslexie font does not benefit reading in children with or without dyslexia" https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11881-017-0154-6 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11881-017-0154-6 But it didn't do any harm either, so if you like Comic Sans you might as well stick with it.