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War on Fonts!

TheCatWoman

Trump has told all government depts that they must go back to using Times New Roman fonts, rather than Calibri which was being used, I think this was brought in by Biden as so many people, have problems reading TNR.

Apart from the sheer ridiculousness of this, what is it about different fonts that exercises people so much? I've come across font purists before who go on about how some fonts are some kind of abomination, like comic sans. I like comic sans as a dyslexic person it's the easiest to read, but some people get in a real hissy about it, why?

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  • A lot of fonts are popular because people use whatever is the default one. People used to use Times New Roman regularly back in the day because it was the default option in a lot of Microsoft software. When they made the default Calibri, lots of people ended up using that. Similarly a lot of Office type software on Macs used Helvetica as the default. Windows did not include Helvetica though so you couldn't select it even if you wanted it.

    I've always quite liked serif fonts, although I predominantly use sans serif.

    I don't really have a favourite. I do rather have soft spots for Computer Modern and Prestige; both of which you won't find used much.

    I fail to see why Comic Sans is considered by some people as 'readable'. I find it quite annoying in large quantities.

  • in reply to mp500

    I find comic sans readable as all the letter are well spaced apart and clear, it helps with being dyslexic and having an astigmatism, I often can't read words with to many uprights, words like little, I didn't realise how much of my reading was memorising a familiar blur rather than seeing the letters, until I was 42 and was diagnosed and given corrective lenses.

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  • in reply to mp500

    I find comic sans readable as all the letter are well spaced apart and clear, it helps with being dyslexic and having an astigmatism, I often can't read words with to many uprights, words like little, I didn't realise how much of my reading was memorising a familiar blur rather than seeing the letters, until I was 42 and was diagnosed and given corrective lenses.

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