Comic Sans Got the Last Laugh

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• TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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 CGI 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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  • shutz@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The term you’re looking for is “uncanny valley”

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    • 299792458ms@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I thought that was just for humanoid figures, does it apply to paintings and such too?

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  • 299792458ms@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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.

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• lemmeBe@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  1000061358

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  • ravhall@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Damn, gradient and emboss? Put on your shades people.

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    • lemmeBe@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      😆

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• JWBananas@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  There are several monospace adaptations of Comic Sans which are great for use in terminals or IDEs. I particularly like this one:

  tosche.net/fonts/comic-code

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  • kelvie@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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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• turkalino@lemmy.yachts ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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”

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• dohpaz42@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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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  • drspod@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’ve had this one in my images folder for at least a couple of decades. No idea where I saved it from:

    Image

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    • Shihali@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s been a long time since I thought about Tenchi Muyo.

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• cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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• neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Obligatory:

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

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  • slackassassin@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    9/10 should have been written in comic sans.

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• ouRKaoS@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Image

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• Mac@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Paywalled

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  • jeffw@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Damn, if only OP had listed some way around the paywall…

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    • Mac@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ikr? Fuckin op 🙄

      I didn’t even see it because clicked from the main feed. lol
      Thank you!

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  • lemmeBe@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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.

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    • Mac@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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…

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• ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Can we talk about Papyrus

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  • bigredgiraffe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    youtu.be/jVhlJNJopOQ

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• Resol@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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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• oohgodyeah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Is the URL broken for anyone else?

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  • rain_worl@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    12ft.io?

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    • oohgodyeah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah, looks like 12ft is the issue, even their homepage won’t load for me. Luckily I got the default Atlantic URL to load with my paywall blocker.

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