Comic Sans Got the Last Laugh
Submitted 6 months ago by jeffw@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/10/comic-sans-debate/680319/
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lemmeBe@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
ravhall@discuss.online 6 months ago
Damn, gradient and emboss? Put on your shades people.
lemmeBe@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
😆
JWBananas@lemmy.world 6 months ago
There are several monospace adaptations of Comic Sans which are great for use in terminals or IDEs. I particularly like this one:
kelvie@lemmy.ca 6 months 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.
turkalino@lemmy.yachts 6 months 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”
dohpaz42@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Let’s bring back those animated gifs (mailbox and under construction) from the 90s. That’ll get everyone riled back up again.
drspod@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
I’ve had this one in my images folder for at least a couple of decades. No idea where I saved it from:
Shihali@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
It’s been a long time since I thought about Tenchi Muyo.
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
never understood the backlash in the first place considering comic sans was one of the most accessible fonts
neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
Obligatory:
I’m Comic Sans, Asshole by Mike Lacher from McSweeney’s Short Imagined Monologues June 15, 2010
slackassassin@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
9/10 should have been written in comic sans.
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 6 months ago
Mac@mander.xyz 6 months ago
Paywalled
jeffw@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Damn, if only OP had listed some way around the paywall…
Mac@mander.xyz 6 months ago
Ikr? Fuckin op 🙄
I didn’t even see it because clicked from the main feed. lol
Thank you!
lemmeBe@sh.itjust.works 6 months 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.
Mac@mander.xyz 6 months 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…
ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Can we talk about Papyrus
bigredgiraffe@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Resol@lemmy.world 6 months 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)
oohgodyeah@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Is the URL broken for anyone else?
rain_worl@lemmy.world 6 months ago
12ft.io?
oohgodyeah@lemmy.world 6 months 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.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 6 months 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.
shutz@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
The term you’re looking for is “uncanny valley”
299792458ms@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
I thought that was just for humanoid figures, does it apply to paintings and such too?
299792458ms@lemmy.zip 6 months 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.