What is the dumbest font you see people using every day?
Posted Mar 24, 2017, 1:35 AM UTC
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it's gotta be comic sans. it just makes anything you write with it look like a child's written it.
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I've gone off Ariel and Verdana lately.
I've moved on to Constantia and haven't looked back.
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Comic Sans
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At work I have to look through county land records. They log things with recording pages or stamps that have instrument numbers and dates, etc. There is one county in my state that used to use comic sans on their recording pages, no one else in my office really gets why it's funny.
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Calibri. Arial's annoying younger cousin.
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Any font misused.
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Chiller is the worst most edgy font ever.
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It makes me want to main Reaper
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Courier annoys me. I don't know if it's an objectively dumb don't, but I don't like reading it.
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Papyrus. Its Hideous. Comic sans at least helps dyslexic people read.
Wait, it does? Comic sans is easier for people with dyslexia to read than other fonts? How does that work?
Fonts like Arial and Times New Roman use a ton of similar shapes in the letters. With comic sans, each letter has its own distinct shape and is harder to confuse - visually - with other letters. Further reading
Neat! Thank you.