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.
It’s acceptable in the following contexts:
- In a comic
- In content designed for children
That’s pretty much it.
No no no no.
It’s also acceptable for presidential speeches. The funny letters have a way of calming the elderly.
Oh…no no no. I’m not saying it did or didn’t happen. I like to make absurd jokes, and I keep forgetting that this whole world has taken the absurdity meter, and cranked it up to 327 on a scale of 1-10.
At this point, I could say that Bill Cosby was giving head to hobos in exchange for jello-pops, and with how absurd this world is, I’d be then asked “Which flavor was it???”
See, when I grew up, if I had said something like that, I’d be laughed out of the serious conversation. It was just so absurd it’s funny…except now we live in a timeline where Rudy Guilliani’s hair melts, Mike Pence is known to have a fly crawl in his mouth without noticing or reacting for hours, every superpower seems to be plotting their own WWIII, and Apu from the Simpsons is taken seriously as a social progressive commentary.
I swear when I was a kid, sci-fi was all about time travelers coming back from the year 2020 to warn of us alien invasions, and robot takeovers, and governments running big brother programs…
And while all that IS true, you never saw any sci-fi movies in the 80s like “THE FUTURE IS STUPID!!! REALLY REALLY STUPID!!!” and then runs away.
I blame Harambe. Thats when the absurdity levels fell off the rails.
Comic Sans is better than other sans serif options because letters like b, p, d, and q are more rotationally distinct
I don’t think it’s that bad. What matters is that the message can be read.
True a font that is hard to read isn’t very good especially if you are dyslexic.
^ Something that annoys me to no end. I don’t have dyslexia but find handwritings hard to read, and for similar reasons I always write in print, but then I go consult people who write things if there’s a project or I need something written, and nine out of ten times it’s in cursive when it’s not even a formal document, and I’m thinking “is it SO hard for normal people to write in a normal manner and write for understandability instead of bad aesthetics/tradition”. Yet I’m called illiterate because I only write in print.
It depends on the messages, if the message is more important than the delivery, then any font is fine.
Went out with someone for 3 months who had comic sans on her phone and honestly I’m adding that to the red flag list. Never again
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.
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.
