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Seriously, though, Comic Sans was originally designed to be legible at the smallest possible font size, and the lack of hard lines makes it easier to read!

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[–] pushka 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

This is cute~! I hated comic-sans when seeing it on lots of tacky corporate and school signs etc. but recently I ironically and then unironically fell in love with its whacky-ness, bold-ness and readability, (I use a Samsung phone, and used PT Mono on the S9, but then future phones blocked custom fonts, so I used one hack-ey Comic-Sans version since my mono ones are so underground no one developed a phone hack - now any font is possible again so I'm using the one below~ )

A few years ago my fav. font became PT Mono, from Google Fonts - cyrilic compatible, it has these angular edges, and swoopy circle curves, so cute <3

THEN there was this font printed on 2011 Pentax Q cameras and lenses that I loved, and couldn't find the original, but there was something very similar, STALKER1 and related similar fonts

PT MONO

STALKER1

[–] Jamoke@lemmy.themainframe.org 2 points 1 year ago

These are awesome. I installed them alongside Comic Mono to feel less guilty. Thanks!

[–] Gork 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How do you feel about Choco Cookie? It's ubiquitous on Samsung phones but I don't think it looks as good as Comic Sans.

[–] pushka 1 points 1 year ago

I've seen it around - I'm not a fan, I like comic sans, PT Mono and STALKER1 <3