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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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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's really weird to me how Internet sometimes decide to hate on things just for the sake of it.
I wouldn't be using it myself, because I'm not a fan of hand-written style fonts. But, I see no problem with Comic Sans.

[โ€“] clutchmatic 1 points 2 years ago

Comic Sans is just a poor choice for corporate signage and results in that "this is a Fortune 500 company and not a lemonade stand" reaction. Otherwise it's just another font