Comic Sans Got the Last Laugh
Comic Sans Got the Last Laugh
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Comic Sans Got the Last Laugh
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Damn, gradient and emboss? Put on your shades people.
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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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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.
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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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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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Can we talk about Papyrus
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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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PaywalledI'm silly
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Is the URL broken for anyone else?
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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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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.
The term you're looking for is "uncanny valley"
I thought that was just for humanoid figures, does it apply to paintings and such too?
There is an interesting video made by a youtube channel called "Stuff Made Here" were he uses a robot hand and a program made to create fonts like they were hand written by humans and the results are impressive.