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.
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.
The trend has never stopped where I’m from. The hate is burning as bright as ever.
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.
The monospaced version is the best terminal font I’ve ever used. I can find information on the screen way faster.
Yes! I came here to shill for Comic Mono! I don’t use any other monospace fonts since I started with it.
I use monospaced comic sans for programming. The font is just easier on the eyes.
I don’t really use it for anything. Though I imagine it would would make it easier to read having comic sans in white on a dark terminal.
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.
Right tools for the right jobs. The issues arise when it’s out of place.
It’s aight. Just use it for the right stuff, is all.
It doesn’t bother me at all. It’s readable and fun, but I like comics so…. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Keep that font out of your damned mouth! 😂
I used it for its true purpose back in the day, for Microsoft Comic Chat.
It’s like almost nobody remembers that … that’s a thing that existed.
I very much associate it with the kind of person in the corporate environment who says things like “does somebody have a case of the Mondays?”
If you use it while trying to write a paper, you can actually write faster/more easily, so I tried it out myself, switched the font, and it actually did help. I do switch the font back to something more professional if I’m sharing what I wrote, though.
It’s not as good as Comic Serif.
It helps me read better as someone with dyslexia, I hate the look but it’s useful. I use open dyslexic but it’s basically Comic Sans.
I get why people use it, but it looks childish.
Comic Sans is a bad font because it was one of the first default fonts installed on windows machines and every secretary who wanted to come across as casual used it.
Today, I’d say it’s been replaced by the Google font Lobster as overused and unimaginative font choice.
It’s a trash font for trash people.
