Technology @lemmy.world jeffw @lemmy.world 3w ago

Comic Sans Got the Last Laugh

www.theatlantic.com Comic Sans Got the Last Laugh

The backlash against the world’s most hated font may finally be ending.

https://12ft.io/https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/10/comic-sans-debate/680319/

Typography @lemmy.ml koavf @lemmy.ml 3w ago

www.theatlantic.com /technology/archive/2024/10/comic-sans-debate/680319/

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- Damn, gradient and emboss? Put on your shades people.
  
  😆
There are several monospace adaptations of Comic Sans which are great for use in terminals or IDEs. I particularly like this one:

https://tosche.net/fonts/comic-code

I have never seen another terminal font that is so easy and fast to grok.
- I also bought and use this in a terminal and Emacs. I really do feel like it increases legibility at a much smaller font size.
Comic Sans really isn’t that bad, it’s just one of those things that became trendy to hate by people who are incapable of developing their own personality. Like the word “moist”
Let’s bring back those animated gifs (mailbox and under construction) from the 90s. That’ll get everyone riled back up again.
- I've had this one in my images folder for at least a couple of decades. No idea where I saved it from:
  
  It's been a long time since I thought about Tenchi Muyo.
never understood the backlash in the first place considering comic sans was one of the most accessible fonts
Obligatory:

I’m Comic Sans, Asshole by Mike Lacher from McSweeney's Short Imagined Monologues June 15, 2010
- 9/10 should have been written in comic sans.
~~Paywalled~~

I'm silly
- Damn, if only OP had listed some way around the paywall…
  
  Ikr? Fuckin op 🙄
  
  I didn't even see it because clicked from the main feed. lol
  Thank you!
- There's a Reader mode in Firefox/Mull that you press before the page completely loads, i.e. before the wall appears. Works on most sites.
  
  If i were better at frame perfect tricks I'd be a speedrunner.
  I can only get it to work sometimes. Pages often load too fast for me... I'm washed up...
Can we talk about Papyrus
- https://youtu.be/jVhlJNJopOQ
I... actually never hated Comic Sans and never understood why it was so hated. I mean, at least everyone knows about it.

I always thought the Algerian font was ugly as hell (it probably has nothing to do with Algeria)
Is the URL broken for anyone else?
- 12ft.io?
  
  Yeah, looks like 12ft is the issue, even their homepage won't load for me.
  
  504 Gateway Time-out nginx/1.18.0 (Ubuntu)
  
  Luckily I got the default Atlantic URL to load with my paywall blocker.

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