Comic Sans is the font everyone loves to hate. In fact there is a whole movement to ban the font which is something I didn’t know till today. I don’t really like the font but spending money and effort to ban a font just because you don’t like it seems a bit extreme. <\/p>\n
There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a petition to ban it from Gmail and myriad stories about how terrible it is. Even Weird Al chastises people who use Comic Sans in his music video for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Tacky.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Got my new r\u00c3\u00a9sum\u00c3\u00a9\/it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s printed in Comic Sans.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d)<\/p>\n
A Ban Comics Sans movement began in 1999 with graphic designers Holly and David Combs. In a 2010 interview with The Guardian, Holly said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Using Comic Sans is like turning up to a black-tie event in a clown costume.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Their manifesto states, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153By banding together to eradicate this font from the face of the earth we strive to ensure that future generations will be liberated from this epidemic and never suffer this scourge that is the plague of our time.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Their website sells t-shirts for anyone who wants to drop $26 to make sure their stance on this font plague is clear.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Even though the site bancomicsans.com now redirects to usecomicsans.com its still not because they think the font is ok, it’s because the font is so hated and that makes it cool to use it (Yeah, I don’t get it either but that’s what ‘cool’ people do.). I personally think that the font is kiddish and would never use it for official communications or purposes. But there is an aspect of using Comic Sans that I wasn’t aware of till earlier today and it blew my mind. Basically Comic Sans is a font that makes it easier for people with Dyslexia to read. This is because unlike other fonts which use repeated shapes to create different letters, such as a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153p\u00e2\u20ac\u009d rotated to made a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153q,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Comic Sans has irregular\/unique shapes for each letter making it easier for folks to read the text. I personally find comic Sans to be a bit hard to read for long text but that’s probably because I am used to reading text in Calibre\/Arial\/Times New Roman etc. But for people who have issues reading regular fonts its a lifesaver. In this way using a Kindle is a great thing as I can choose the font I am most comfortable with for reading and it doesn’t need to be a ‘good’ font. <\/p>\n