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It honestly looks good and feels really charming... when it's within its comfort zone.

It's great for trolling font nerds.

Have you ever read really dense technical material in comic sans? It’s awesome, I recommend it

Right tools for the right jobs. The issues arise when it's out of place.

I very much associate it with the kind of person in the corporate environment who says things like "does somebody have a case of the Mondays?"

It's aight. Just use it for the right stuff, is all.

Comic Sans is a bad font because it was one of the first default fonts installed on windows machines and every secretary who wanted to come across as casual used it.

Today, I'd say it's been replaced by the Google font Lobster as overused and unimaginative font choice.

Is comic sans the Taylor Swift of fonts?

I get why people use it, but it looks childish.

It doesn’t bother me at all. It’s readable and fun, but I like comics so…. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

If you use it while trying to write a paper, you can actually write faster/more easily, so I tried it out myself, switched the font, and it actually did help. I do switch the font back to something more professional if I'm sharing what I wrote, though.

Here's an article on writing in Comic Sans

I don't dislike it but I prefer Anime Ace from Blambot for use in comics.

I would rather use Comic Sans than the current trend of all these unreadable fonts people use for labels and signage. https://www.thedesignhippo.com/best-cricut-font/ https://www.creativefabrica.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/20/Meghan-Fonts-34546508-10-580x387.jpg

made for a very specific reason and got overused in the wrong contexts

There was a time when it was overused. That’s not the case anymore.

I would still be triggered when I see it, but I don’t think the hate is needed anymore.

Beside everything else it is certainly nonfree proprietary software. I prefer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_Neue

It is good.

I think that it's a pretty decent typeface -- it looks decent and successfully evokes comic book text. But because Microsoft bundled it with its OS, where it was one of the few distinct-looking typefaces, it became overused, got put in a lot of material where it wasn't really a great choice.

But I won't blame the typeface for people using it in inappropriate spots.

I used to have a number of typefaces used for various things, but I kind of stopped messing around with decorative fonts once I wanted wide Unicode support.

It's a trash font for trash people.

It's not as good as Comic Serif.

Not a fan. Not a fan of system fonts in general.

It helps me read better as someone with dyslexia, I hate the look but it’s useful. I use open dyslexic but it’s basically Comic Sans.

Avoid it when you want to be taken seriously.

I seem to recall that its main issue was that it used more ink when printing. Not sure about that but I print like two documents a year so I havent really checked.

The monospaced version is the best terminal font I've ever used. I can find information on the screen way faster.