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Nobunaga
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by Nobunaga » Mon Apr 01, 2013 6:19 am
... Hoping this is an April Fools thing.
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by Timminz » Mon Apr 01, 2013 8:23 am
So soothing... I hope it's permanent. Comic Sans is a god among fonts.
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by Haggis_McMutton » Mon Apr 01, 2013 9:23 am
Until today I didn't really understand the comic sans hate. I'd just never seen so much of it ... in the same place ...
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by BigBallinStalin » Mon Apr 01, 2013 9:38 am
Haggis_McMutton wrote: Until today I didn't really understand the comic sans hate. I'd just never seen so much of it ... in the same place ...
It's all there--just looking at you. And you're looking back.
What's that you feel?
Yes. It's called 'hollowness'.
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by 2dimes » Mon Apr 01, 2013 9:55 am
I wish they left it up longer. I missed it.
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by 2dimes » Mon Apr 01, 2013 10:23 am
OK, I switched to my PC lappy, there it is.
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by Hnakrapunti » Mon Apr 01, 2013 11:50 am
Its so bad. I really hope this is an April Fools thing.
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by DoomYoshi » Mon Apr 01, 2013 12:24 pm
Haggis_McMutton wrote: Until today I didn't really understand the comic sans hate. I'd just never seen so much of it ... in the same place ...
I had a physics prof who did all our notes in Comic sans. It was impossible to take seriously.
Also:
[bigimg]http://whycomicsans.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/2012-03-10-17.52.45.jpg[/bigimg]
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Symmetry
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by Symmetry » Tue Apr 02, 2013 7:57 am
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by Symmetry » Tue Apr 02, 2013 8:03 am
To be absolutely fair to the font though- I've been told by a few people who have dyslexia that it's one of the easiest fonts to read and work with.
the world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it- Albert Einstein
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by 2dimes » Tue Apr 02, 2013 10:19 am
Because the lowercase "a" does not have the thing on the top like most fonts.
Symmetry
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by Symmetry » Tue Apr 02, 2013 10:23 am
2dimes wrote: Because the lowercase "a" does not have the thing on the top like most fonts.
That makes sense, although the impression I got was that most letters were more comprehensible.
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by 2dimes » Tue Apr 02, 2013 11:34 am
I noticed the letter a thing yesterday right away. There's probably a bunch of things Idid not notice though.
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by Gilligan » Tue Apr 02, 2013 11:38 am
2dimes wrote: I noticed the letter a thing yesterday right away. There's probably a bunch of things Idid not notice though.
mindblown
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by Symmetry » Tue Apr 02, 2013 11:57 am
2dimes wrote: I noticed the letter a thing yesterday right away. There's probably a bunch of things I did not notice though.
From what I was told it's the way that the letters are more clearly separated. Vut yeah, the "a" was a big thing.
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by ender516 » Fri Apr 05, 2013 8:46 pm
I just looked at a sample of Comic Sans and it struck me how much it resembled a good but not perfect rendition of the letters on the cards around the classrooms in the grades before they were replaced with the cursive examples. I wonder how much that affects the dyslexics: these letters look like the first ones they really learned.
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by Symmetry » Fri Apr 05, 2013 8:51 pm
ender516 wrote: I just looked at a sample of Comic Sans and it struck me how much it resembled a good but not perfect rendition of the letters on the cards around the classrooms in the grades before they were replaced with the cursive examples. I wonder how much that affects the dyslexics: these letters look like the first ones they really learned.
From what I understand it's the "sans serif" that helps prevent the letters merging into one another. I don't want to pretend expertise on this though.
the world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it- Albert Einstein