Ask Lemmy

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.

It's acceptable in the following contexts:

• In a comic
• In content designed for children

That's pretty much it.

The monospaced version is the best terminal font I've ever used. I can find information on the screen way faster.

I don't think it's that bad. What matters is that the message can be read.

Avoid it when you want to be taken seriously.

Right tools for the right jobs. The issues arise when it's out of place.

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?"

I think that it's a pretty decent typeface -- it looks decent and successfully evokes comic book text. But because Microsoft bundled it with its OS, where it was one of the few distinct-looking typefaces, it became overused, got put in a lot of material where it wasn't really a great choice.

But I won't blame the typeface for people using it in inappropriate spots.

I used to have a number of typefaces used for various things, but I kind of stopped messing around with decorative fonts once I wanted wide Unicode support.

I get why people use it, but it looks childish.

It's aight. Just use it for the right stuff, is all.

All the emergency signs in my old office were in comic sans. I thought it was rather funny

It doesn’t bother me at all. It’s readable and fun, but I like comics so…. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Meh. Usage is cringe, but so is the hate.

Keep that font out of your damned mouth! 😂

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.

Here's an article on writing in Comic Sans

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.

There was a time when it was overused. That’s not the case anymore.

I would still be triggered when I see it, but I don’t think the hate is needed anymore.

Have you ever read really dense technical material in comic sans? It’s awesome, I recommend it

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.

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.

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

I would rather use Comic Sans than the current trend of all these unreadable fonts people use for labels and signage. https://www.thedesignhippo.com/best-cricut-font/ https://www.creativefabrica.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/20/Meghan-Fonts-34546508-10-580x387.jpg

I don't dislike it but I prefer Anime Ace from Blambot for use in comics.

It's not as good as Comic Serif.

Beside everything else it is certainly nonfree proprietary software. I prefer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_Neue

It honestly looks good and feels really charming... when it's within its comfort zone.

It's a trash font for trash people.

I seem to recall that its main issue was that it used more ink when printing. Not sure about that but I print like two documents a year so I havent really checked.