B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for June 22, 2016

Seriously! Comic Sans!

More than any font, I hate Helvetica. And yet, it’s the default on my computer.

cdward, you can change your default settings with little difficulty.

Try Tahoma!

Nobody gets out of life alive.

Well, almost nobody.

My favorite font!

Perhaps Comic Sans gets no respect because it was intended to look like the hand-lettering in comic books. However, it is distinguishable from hand-lettering if there’s enough text and you pay attention to the details. For example, I can tell that this strip was hand-lettered. Look at the S’s – each one is slightly different from all the others.In Comic Sans, they’d all be the same. Small imperfections were introduced deliberately into each letter, with the imperfections varying between different letters, but every rendition of the same letter is identical.

I think that this feature actually makes it more readable. As you read more Comic Sans text, you are subconsciously noticing the small imperfections; after several repetitions of a letter, your mental model of that letter in this document includes not only the overall shape, but the repeated imperfections, and that gives your mind more ways to distinguish them. E.g., in most fonts, R is just P with an extra stroke – if your eye skips over that stroke, you might misread an R, then go back and look again when the spelling doesn’t make sense. In Comic Sans, the vertical strokes and loops are also different.

Har har har…

The one you have to look out for is “Architect’s Daughter.” :)

As an English as a Second Language teacher, I’m put off by our fonts that make the letter l (L) and the letter I (i) look the same. It’s hard enough to teach someone a new language without having mystery letters.

Wizard of Id, probably.

I guess they would laugh themselves to death.

Must be a Wedding Chapel

They tickle you to death.

That’s my favorite font!

Reminds me of Monty Python and the Holy Grail at the cave where the killer rabbit lives