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Modern Font Requirements (lemmy.world)

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[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 18 hours ago

Comic sans was invented for legibility on CRT screens, and its considered good for younger people to learn the iconography of various Latin characters.

Its just misused since it was standard in Windows and Apple's OS X, and used in situations that aren't meant for such a typeface. It's perfectly good for what it was invented for, its just often incorrectly used by designers who don't really know how to design well.