Hating Comic Sans is Ableist Apparently

[Rev. Rye]

It's worth noting that one of the points they use is that it's one of only a few fonts reocmmended by several dyslexia organisations, and, clicking on the link, I found there's still other dyslexia-friendly fonts. In fact, they mentioned six other fonts that are already installed in Microsoft Word as appropriate for dyslexia:

In our font base:

Arial: The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog.
Trebuchet: The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog.
Verdana: The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog.

Not in our font base:
Helvetica: The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog.
Calibri: The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog
Century Gothic: The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog

Other freely downloadable, but still dyslexia-friendly, and, indeed, dyslexia-oriented fonts, include Lexie,  OpenDyslexic, and Dyslexie.

And compare all those with Comic Sans: The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog.

It's ugly, designed for a tutorial method that fell flat on its ass, and no less than documentary filmmaker Errol Morris recently held an experiment that showed people were less likely to trust a document in Comic Sans.

Fun fact: last year, I took an excel class, and some of the earlier files used for the class had Comic Sans as their default font, and I actually asked the teacher if it would be okay if I changed it to something less of an eyesore. He consented, and said he himself wasn't sure why the publisher used Comic Sans as default.

For what it's worth, my font of choice is Courier: The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog.