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jeffw@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

Comic Sans Got the Last Laugh

www.theatlantic.com

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Comic Sans Got the Last Laugh

www.theatlantic.com

jeffw@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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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/

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  • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
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    There’s just something about fonts that are supposed to look hand-written but are too perfectly curved, every letter looking perfectly consistent, etc, that my brain rejects.

    Like when you see CGI or computerised physics in a film that’s 90% there, but there’s something about it that you can’t put your finger on that leaves a somewhat jarring “this isn’t right! Something is wrong here!” in my primative monkey brain.

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    1000061358

  • dohpaz42@lemmy.world
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    Let’s bring back those animated gifs (mailbox and under construction) from the 90s. That’ll get everyone riled back up again.

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    never understood the backlash in the first place considering comic sans was one of the most accessible fonts

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    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.

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    Obligatory:

    I’m Comic Sans, Asshole by Mike Lacher from McSweeney’s Short Imagined Monologues June 15, 2010

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      9/10 should have been written in comic sans.

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    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)

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    Can we talk about Papyrus

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      https://youtu.be/jVhlJNJopOQ

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    Is the URL broken for anyone else?

    • Rain World: Slugcat Game@lemmy.world
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      12ft.io?

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        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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