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comment by ironpotato

Great article lil, but that font.... oh that font.

I should really reflect more on past relationships. It may explain why almost everyone I date seems to be crazy. Maybe I'm the crazy one :O





lil  ·  3767 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Is that better? [Trebuchet?] Changed just for you ironpot.

Note: User experience is an important factor, but I will usually default to comic sans. I'm aware that there are many comic haters.

kleinbl00  ·  3766 days ago  ·  link  ·  

A realist's guide to comic sans

There are signage fonts and there are text fonts. Text fonts are designed to be read a paragraph at a time. Signage fonts are designed to be read a word at a time.

Comic Sans inhabits the nether regions between the two: it was designed for Microsoft Bob, the Clippy OS. In other words, it's a signage font but was deliberately infantilized so that Microsoft's designers could say "it looks like you're trying to type a sentence but suck at computing. Can I hold your hand while you're doing that?" without feeling scolded by HAL9000.

As such, it's a shitty font for readability. There's a passive-aggressiveness to its design that's deliberately designed to blunt what it says. It's also a shitty font for signage. It's designed to be partially ignored. It's even a shitty font for comics - the designer wasn't really trying for anything related to comics, but was more going for the children's-scrawl version of Futura.

If you must do things in a comic font, at least use Lint McCree.

lil  ·  3766 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Thx kb.

I'm not committed to comic anything. I just want a good clear readable font -- not for the blog particularly, but for all my course material. Of course there are other considerations besides font - there's spacing between lines and between letters. I'll pop the question over on askhubski.

Some people may be irritated by the signage/clippy/childish attitude suggested by comic. My students have been mocking me for a while for using it. Since I'm creating new curriculum right now, I can change the whole book to something less irritation-provoking. I'm limited to the font selection on my computer. When I download new (free) ones, they come with embedded stuff that screwed up some other functionalities.

kleinbl00  ·  3766 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I used to use a combination of Bank Gothic and Bell Gothic, and then Battlestar Galactica came out and Bank Gothic took over the universe. I tried futura for a while but it's not particularly legible; I tend to use Anonymous Pro for most things these days.

You are now aware that #fonts is a thing on hubski.

user-inactivated  ·  3767 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I like the font you changed it to.

ironpotato  ·  3766 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That is better. I was looking at comic neue like galen suggested, I would be interested to see a blog in that font.

:) But thank you. I was having trouble reading the comic sans. I have the same problem on the /r/dogecoin subreddit. I don't know why I have so much trouble with that font.

lil  ·  3766 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    I was having trouble reading the comic sans
That's very interesting to note. I tend to use comic sans (serif) because it seems to me to be the clearest and most readable. I'm always looking for a readable font (that I have access to). So please suggest any you come across.
galen  ·  3767 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Will you at least consider Comic Neue? It looks much better, I promise.