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"the very typeface you’ve been trained to recognize since childhood"

Comic sans debuted in 1994, so, uh...no.

Edit: Yes, I'm aware some people were children in this general time period :)

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That’s 27 years ago, I’d say that quite a few people have lived their childhoods with Comic Sans as a common font.

Yeah, I'm from '94 - I've never seen a world without Comic Sans. Or Wingdings for that matter.

That just triggered an old memory from very early me playing around with clip-art and transitions on PowerPoint.

The world before Comic Sans looked a lot like this to most people: https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/fontlist/font?ibm_vga_...

(IBM VGA 9x16 font, used by MSDOS and pretty much every PC from the mid 80s to 90s)

Actually, I thought that Hercules monochrome was a novel improvement on CGA.

I never saw the IBM monochrome that shipped with the original PC. I certainly saw a lot of CGA.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercules_Graphics_Card

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_Graphics_Adapter

I use this font in many places, and it gives people 2-3 years my junior nervous twitches. They associate it with events like "thing has gone wrong, time to reinstall windows".

I remember back in the early 2000s, having a QBASIC window open was enough to make most people say "you broke it". A blue screen covered in IBM VGA was firmly established as a bad sign by that point.

And before that: http://luc.devroye.org/fonts-44934.html

My childhood:

http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~sedwards/apple2fpga/FPGA-FDEDL.j...

I know this is true, but I know it hurts me in my heart!

The typeface was familiar to me as a child even before Comic Sans came out as it is based on a lot of the writing in comic strips.

It's a reference to comic sans looking like hand drawn lettering in comic books, like the Amazing Spiderman etc?

Yup, that's what it was intended to look like and where the name comes from.

Most books are still printed with serif typefaces because they are easier to read. Is that becoming less true for younger people? A genuine question.

Before I was born.

Welp, now I feel old because I remember in 94 when it was the cool new font. I worked for an Early Childhood Education grant and we started using it on our forms to parents. Amazingly, it got a better response than the Courier New that was used on the official forms.

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