Hating Comic Sans is Ableist Apparently

[LastPoet]

I like whatever.

Coding, just Courier is better for me.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

PZed LOVES Comic Sans.

[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.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Comic Sans looks like it was done with a crayon.

[Rev. Rye]

Comic Sans looks like it was done with a crayon.

And even by that standard, there's better-looking fonts for that "written in crayon" aesthetic.

Also, allegedly, the programmer who created Comic Sans based his work on Watchmen's Dave Gibbons' lettering. Gibbons, in turn, said he didn't see why they didn't just use that font, because the one they ended up with was crap. His actual font is available online, but it costs an obscene amount of money and I don't feel like looking for a free version of it. That said, I'm sure there are decent-looking comic lettering-styled fonts available for free.

[Neo-Scholastic]

I'm actually partial to Droid Sans. I find it very easy to read. However, I use Bryant (which looks like the old letraset stencils) for lots of packaging.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I do Calibri in wood.