Why Comic Sans Isn't the Worst Font Ever

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  • čas přidán 30. 07. 2024
  • Nothing can undo the invention of Comic Sans, but that may not be a bad thing since it seems to be helping people with dyslexia.
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Komentáře • 441

  • @michaelmeissner7545
    @michaelmeissner7545 Před 5 lety +293

    Fun fact: Comic Sans was developed to be a highly readable font on low resolution displays, where other developed fonts would get mangled into unreadability by a lack of antialiasing.
    Comic Sans is not a bad font. It's just not a professional font, and too many people try to use it for professional purposes. That's the problem. Not the font itself, but its gross overuse.

    • @MephLeo
      @MephLeo Před 5 lety +2

      That.

    • @celinak5062
      @celinak5062 Před 5 lety +1

      +

    • @iLoveBigKnockers
      @iLoveBigKnockers Před 5 lety

      So it IS a bad font.

    • @michaelmeissner7545
      @michaelmeissner7545 Před 5 lety +17

      No, it's not a bad font. Calling it a bad font because people misuse it is like calling a Crown Vic a bad car because it can't outrace a Ferrari. For its purpose, Comic Sans is a good font. It's not meant for professional applications, so judging it in that context is unfair.

    • @iLoveBigKnockers
      @iLoveBigKnockers Před 5 lety

      @@michaelmeissner7545 Nothing is fair.

  • @87392v
    @87392v Před 5 lety +94

    You can't just pit brothers against each other. Sans and Papyrus are equally cool skeletons

  • @EnzoDraws
    @EnzoDraws Před 5 lety +316

    I seriously didn't expect that Papyrus reference at the end.

  • @Laezar1
    @Laezar1 Před 5 lety +58

    Papyrus tries his best ok? Don't be mean to him he's a cool dude =(

  • @HH-lr2zt
    @HH-lr2zt Před 5 lety +20

    My Accelerated Chemistry teacher uses Comic Sans because it is easier to tell a number 1 from a lowercase l (L) to an uppercase I (i) in chemical equations.

  • @psycobasschick
    @psycobasschick Před 5 lety +93

    Comic Sans is actually my favorite font to use. I'm autistic and it literally looks exactly like my slow print writing. There is something calming and natural about it to me.

    • @NimanWielder01
      @NimanWielder01 Před 5 lety +12

      Really? That's interesting, thanks for sharing!

    • @elizabethfoster5678
      @elizabethfoster5678 Před 5 lety +16

      I'm dyslexic and prefer comic sans as well because it looks like actual hand writing especially the a e and y.

    • @RosheenQuynh
      @RosheenQuynh Před 5 lety +6

      That's why I probably like it too! It really is calming and natural!

    • @cattiefogelsong6399
      @cattiefogelsong6399 Před 5 lety +1

      Laura Harvey
      Same! Although after I leaned everyone hated it I praciced reading in Times New Roman.

    • @Laura-qp9iw
      @Laura-qp9iw Před 5 lety +3

      I always used to love it because it looked most like print writing to me. I was surprised to learn a lot of people hate it

  • @buddinghumanist6285
    @buddinghumanist6285 Před 5 lety +157

    Wingdings FTW

    • @MochYee
      @MochYee Před 5 lety +4

      Wingdings
      Webdings
      Bookman Symbol 7
      bESt fONtS eVEr, aMiRItE?

    • @ConstantChaos1
      @ConstantChaos1 Před 5 lety +1

      It's actually just the original way to add non-character design elements and special characters, it was easier than making a way to individually select each one when needed so they pretty much made the first emoji-keyboard

    • @ConstantChaos1
      @ConstantChaos1 Před 5 lety

      It is just a shortcut for making shapes

    • @futurestoryteller
      @futurestoryteller Před 5 lety

      Yeah, problem is you'd have to type the whole alphabet on your keyboard to find the right "emoji" for the situation anyway.

    • @ConstantChaos1
      @ConstantChaos1 Před 5 lety

      @@futurestoryteller yeah, there was a handbook that yo yu could refrence or you could just know which was which

  • @safir2241
    @safir2241 Před 5 lety +153

    *Megalovania plays in the Background*

    • @psyk2642
      @psyk2642 Před 5 lety +1

      (puke)

    • @L4m3ness
      @L4m3ness Před 5 lety +2

      Activate the photon heating device and initiate the Bonetrousle protocol!

    • @tv-pp
      @tv-pp Před 5 lety

      (has had time)

    • @Todesnuss
      @Todesnuss Před 5 lety +4

      Literally just the first note at the end of the video would have killed me from laughing.

    • @user-ry1bf9vn8t
      @user-ry1bf9vn8t Před 5 lety

      *Sees the player causing a genocide, a ridiculous amounts of money is shown on the top left of the players screen as I then soon came running towards the player*

  • @davidbuschhorn6539
    @davidbuschhorn6539 Před 5 lety +8

    As a writer, and therefore an avid reader, it's both frustrating and heartbreaking to watch dyslexics try to do the test for dyslexia. Anything that makes it easier, even using a font I dislike (mostly for how it feels like it lacks style and beauty) would make me happy. I'd have no problem letting people pick which font and size they want to read my books in, when they order them.
    I can't even imagine what it would be like to live my whole life, unable to read quickly. :-(

  • @shearerslegs
    @shearerslegs Před 5 lety +25

    I’m visually impaired and always find comic sans to be easier to read so I don’t understand why people get so worked up about what font is used.

    • @Alfr3d_F
      @Alfr3d_F Před 5 lety +1

      The short version is that it has been grossly overused to the point of most people getting sick of seeing it, and design as a discipline setting standards that move away from what Comic Sans is.

    • @celinak5062
      @celinak5062 Před 5 lety

      +

    • @MaoRatto
      @MaoRatto Před 2 lety +1

      I find it hard to read Arial as I'm always guessing L and i constantly. rn and m look similar.

  • @pay1370
    @pay1370 Před 5 lety +136

    but have you seen comic papyrus yet?

  • @onewhoisanonymous
    @onewhoisanonymous Před 5 lety +8

    I worked with a colleague who had dyslexia. She struggled with reading and needed help with filling out forms. She and I worked in China. She found reading Mandarin was easier than English. Whole blocks of characters and Chinese texts were easier to comprehend than a string of letters. I watched her grow more confident and she can read faster in Chinese than English.

  • @VapidVulpes
    @VapidVulpes Před 5 lety +29

    took me two minutes and 45 seconds to get the Plaid-ypus shirt pun. I'm not even high, I guess I need a cup of coffee.
    Love the video :-)

    • @aidran007
      @aidran007 Před 5 lety +1

      Lock Lynch wot pun? Now I need to go back n watch again *dyslexic alert 🚨 😊

  • @ourochroma
    @ourochroma Před 5 lety +10

    Comic Sans and Papyrus are my favorite skeletons

  • @NewMessage
    @NewMessage Před 5 lety +23

    A fount of knowledge tells us about a font of knowledge.

  • @Sparkbomber
    @Sparkbomber Před 5 lety +7

    Frankly, I can't imagine why anyone would go as far as to hate Comic Sans... A waste of time tbh, based on faulty arguments. Consider over-exposure for one... Arial, Calibri, Times New Roman, Bodoni... They get the same or even a greater amount of use with even less considerations for appropriateness, or aesthetics.

    • @sachikoaichan
      @sachikoaichan Před 5 lety

      Add Trajan to the list, because so many movie posters titles use it.

  • @Darasilverdragon
    @Darasilverdragon Před 5 lety +38

    You guys badmouthing Papyrus?
    *Sounds like you're gonna have a bad time.*

  • @dankhank5110
    @dankhank5110 Před 5 lety +121

    We all know times new Roman is the worst. It’s brings flash backs of school.

    • @CapriUni
      @CapriUni Před 5 lety +5

      Thank you! I'm an oldster -- I was out of high school before computer fonts were even a thing. And I don't have dyslexia. But trying to read Times New Roman gives me a headache. My current favorite for reading on a computer screen is Trebuchet.

    • @Fearnil
      @Fearnil Před 5 lety

      I hate arial more but I get your pain.

    • @Ssure2
      @Ssure2 Před 5 lety +1

      Courrier New always reminds me of my blind-typing lessons. Everything is the same size so you'll notice it when you miss something...
      Also, edit:
      Personally I like to use Monotype Corsiva or Book Antiqua, both give a totally different vibe, but I like both.

    • @Titanic-wo6bq
      @Titanic-wo6bq Před 5 lety +1

      IKR! ON MOST ESSAYS I NEED TO USE IT.
      I rebel and use other fonts.

  • @__malte
    @__malte Před 5 lety +32

    Comic Sans is a fun and weird font, designed by microsoft for a program with a speaking dog. But the reason so many people hate it is that it’s used too frequently on things it’s not intended for.

    • @edmund-osborne
      @edmund-osborne Před 5 lety +1

      I wouldn't say I hate it just because it's used too much, I hate it because it's ugly and gives off a childish and immature vibe. Nothing lines up and there are no straight lines or consistent elements ANYWHERE. It breaks all the rules of font design, in the worst possible way.

    • @RosheenQuynh
      @RosheenQuynh Před 5 lety +1

      @Edmund Osborne How does it even remotely look childish or immature?! I can't argue ugly since that's purely aesthetic preference but jeez... It's fun, calm, and little bit free. There are rules of font design? Oh God, are you like Brick from the TV show The Middle but stricter? It's just a font, there don't have to be any rules, or at least strict ones... Fonts are supposed to be fun. That's why there's more than one - it's called _variety._ Just another opinion here but straight lines are *boring.* Maybe that's why I appreciate Comic Sans - it's just not boring like Times New Roman or what have you. Since people claim it's overused, I resort to using Chewy. It reminds me of Comic Sans but isn't Comic Sans. I refuse to use any stock font when writing stories in my programs. Though I'm fine with Arial, I guess. At least it's neat and orderly kinda.

  • @AnniMcSally
    @AnniMcSally Před 5 lety +3

    Thank you for mentioning that dyslexia is different for everyone. I barely have issues reading, I just read a little bit slower than normal people. However, make me write without a spell check and I'm doomed 😣

  • @erihitsuki
    @erihitsuki Před 5 lety +15

    Comic Sans actually fits right in the uncanny valley, which is borderline human-like. This causes some unease for people looking at the font.

  • @annah.3751
    @annah.3751 Před 5 lety +3

    Thank you for covering this! I have dyslexia and the the round exaggerated round shapes of the letters helped me proof read more effectively. I would draft my English papers in this font then change it to horrible Times New Roman before turning it in. I’m not a fan of dyslexie. Ppl - especially teachers need to stop hating on this font.

    • @beaclaster
      @beaclaster Před rokem

      excuse my curiousness but since youtube comments doesn't show font, i just want to know did you use comic sans for this?

  • @potatoes9125
    @potatoes9125 Před 5 lety +1

    Love your beds by the way. I wish you do one on how dyslexia works in the brain and maybe one on how to cope with it. Make sure to go in detail about how it's not just VISUAL!! I struggled the most with spelling, writing, and memorizing names. I do flip letters, read a little slow, but it is not the biggest issue. I've done a fair amount of research on dyslexia to try to help me cope but I found almost no helpful information. I would really enjoy it if you guys made a video on that. Thanks!!! :)

  • @anuragpandey8996
    @anuragpandey8996 Před 4 lety

    worths subscribing more than i thought! good work guys! and girls!

  • @emmetcameron1026
    @emmetcameron1026 Před 5 lety +4

    Bad news: my mom finds papyrus more helpful for her dyslexia than comic sans.

  • @just.jakeyd
    @just.jakeyd Před 5 lety +3

    I have dyslexia and reading books and poems give me headache just because the font. I don’t like comic sans. I like more simple and more easy to my eyes fonts. I don’t like it bold not feint I like I a certain shade and it bothers me having a a looking like the digital a. (a) I write my letters different as well. It has gotten better over the years because I found ways to fix it. It’s hard to explain but there is a process that goes in my head that’s corrects some minor mistakes. Like misspelling help as hlep and reading dog as god. Or reading 15 words ahead and mixing two of the words for example. Brave man armory I’ll just immediately think knight. That’s where poems come on. Poems are the most annoying and painstaking think for me. I would rather do a crossword puzzle. (Which is surprisingly easier and helps out)

  • @stvie3
    @stvie3 Před 5 lety +32

    i'm not taking any font advice from a channel that uses ALL CAPS

    • @arabtrooper3929
      @arabtrooper3929 Před 5 lety +1

      stvie3 Why Is That A Problem, It Works If It’s A Title.

    • @stvie3
      @stvie3 Před 5 lety +2

      haha, yah but You're Holding Back, THEY USE ALL CAPS 4 EVERY SENTANCE ON SCREEN

    • @R0I3I3IE
      @R0I3I3IE Před 5 lety

      Bye then.

  • @RangerRuby
    @RangerRuby Před 5 lety +1

    This is not a ideo I expected but I like it! It's nice that SciShow Psych is so broad in the study of Phsycology.

  • @TS-wf2rn
    @TS-wf2rn Před 5 lety +1

    Comic Sans totally helps me! Another thing that sometimes helps is turing the page around and reading upside-down...

  • @Brainstorm69
    @Brainstorm69 Před 5 lety +111

    Who would have thought the font of the devil is actually useful.

    • @BloodSprite-tan
      @BloodSprite-tan Před 5 lety +3

      it's useful, if you ignore the hundred other fonts made to do the same thing yet look better.

    • @RosheenQuynh
      @RosheenQuynh Před 5 lety +1

      I don't think it's called this but the Joker font is the spawn of Satan. Comic Sans makes me smile.

    • @Fearnil
      @Fearnil Před 5 lety

      @Apathetic Indecisive Made to do the same thing and actually doing it isn't the same thing.

    • @BloodSprite-tan
      @BloodSprite-tan Před 5 lety +1

      but like have you heard of any of the other non comic sans, comic fonts most of them are easy to read and fun but not comic sans.

    • @ConstantChaos1
      @ConstantChaos1 Před 5 lety

      You are obviously blissfully unaware of comic papyrus... it's a thing

  • @ThatEntityGirl
    @ThatEntityGirl Před 5 lety +1

    Dyslexia isn’t specifically a reading disorder. It seriously effects reading, but it doesn’t only effect it.

  • @RBuckminsterFuller
    @RBuckminsterFuller Před 5 lety

    Relaxing to read? My faces goes red and my eyes pop out while trying to read it. Every time.

  • @saila-5828
    @saila-5828 Před 5 lety +16

    where can i buy that amazing shirt

    • @LulitaInPita
      @LulitaInPita Před 5 lety +2

      I'm going to bandwagon on your question if you don't mind

    • @PeterRidge
      @PeterRidge Před 5 lety +2

      LMGTFY: www.6dollarshirts.com/plaidy-pus

    • @theangelbelow88
      @theangelbelow88 Před 5 lety +4

      That sure kept taking my attention from everything else, in a good way lol

  • @robertleivonen6116
    @robertleivonen6116 Před 5 lety

    It would be interesting to follow up on this research angle.
    BTW Cute platypus on her t-shirt.

  • @brokenacoustic
    @brokenacoustic Před 5 lety +55

    *Plaidypus* HA!

    • @just.jakeyd
      @just.jakeyd Před 5 lety

      I didn’t read that right, read it as ladybug. Don’t know why. Saw Laidy and flipped over the p’s and got ladybus then thought oh I mean ladybug. That’s probably what happened there is a lot of other things it could be. I see like 3 other words it could be.

    • @brokenacoustic
      @brokenacoustic Před 5 lety +1

      Perhaps youtube should allow custom fonts...may I suggest Comic Sans? lol

    • @brytenow
      @brytenow Před 5 lety

      Took me 3 minutes before I got the pun. :(

    • @lyreparadox
      @lyreparadox Před 5 lety +1

      Thank you, I was totally distracted trying to figure it out.

    • @rudylikestowatch
      @rudylikestowatch Před 5 lety

      Are these shirts part of a grand SciShow Psych research project?

  • @nigelryenarznz
    @nigelryenarznz Před 5 lety +3

    I'm mildly autistic and quite like comic sans. My favorite is Arial (partly because it is at the top of the list). Papyrus made me shudder. Dyslexie looks very unnatural / wrong. I would not use it.

  • @johnydl
    @johnydl Před 5 lety +1

    I am dyslexic and I have 2 ideas that just haven't been mentioned here, familiarity breeds brain connections, there might be a "easier to learn" font so exposing people equally at a young age makes them tend to that font later but it takes time and practice to find reading a given font easy like comic sans for many dyslexics, myself included and if comic sans is even the slightest bit easier then teachers will leverage that to help them teach, creating a self reinforcing cycle of this is easier so I am shown this more so this gets easier. And once a teacher finds a font like Comic sans works well for one group of students their confirmation biases kick in and stop trialing the "harder" fonts at that early age.
    The other idea is that learning aids like bandaids aren't a "more is better" thing, if you try to pile one aid ontop of another ontop of another there comes a point when its not only not effective to add more aids but its actively hindering, comic sans might hit some balance point between enough aids without too many, after all one of comic sans benefits is a simplicity, adding more features to help like the flicks on lower case q or odd letter spacing or any number of those "improvements" that seem to help in other fonts might actually backfire.

  • @marksusskind1260
    @marksusskind1260 Před 5 lety +1

    I once caught a story a few years ago of a new font that wrote letters differently from numbers, and the letters were bolder / heavier over their lower third. Hey, I loved Papyrus when I would make my own web pages. I would used it for page titles.

  • @jmcosmos
    @jmcosmos Před 5 lety

    And for your reference: I was at 1:54 when I finally got the pun from your shirt.
    (Did @xperpetualmotion put you up to this segment? I hope so ...)

  • @TheyCallMeNewb
    @TheyCallMeNewb Před 5 lety

    For those so inclined: the left occipitotemporal visual word form area (for access to visual lexicon), left supramarginal gyrus (grapheme-phoneme conversion), and anterior and mid temporal lobe (access semantic system), are understood subcurrental to the various disjunctions of dyslexia.

  • @tvdan1043
    @tvdan1043 Před 5 lety

    Interesting about dyslexia and fonts where letters are smushed together. I’ve always hated fonts that kern too much. I guess that’s why I always used Courier in college, much to the frustration of several professors, because I could read it better.
    But I have always had trouble reading when the font is too large. I’m not talking about far-away things like billboards but emails and posted memos that use large type and bold, even if it’s not all-caps. I had one professor who needed new glasses but refused to replace them so he just printed all his tests in a huge font. I had the hardest time understanding the questions until I asked him if, when making the photocopies of the test he could use the “reduce” button on mine. Lo and Behold, I could understand the questions!

  • @merriellenroselette5191
    @merriellenroselette5191 Před 5 lety +1

    You read this in Jack's voice.
    "NYEH HEH HEH!!"

  • @aidran007
    @aidran007 Před 5 lety +1

    I’m newly assessed dyslexic n I like Comic Sans. I like it cos it’s more spaced out than Arial n I find I t easy on the eye (minimalistic). You’re right tho, it doesn’t help me to read faster but I think it helps a little with my dysgraphia. ✌🏼

  • @epistax4
    @epistax4 Před 5 lety +3

    PAPYRUS WILL MAKE YOU RUE THE DAY YOU SLANDERED HIS GOOD NAME! GO ON. START RUEING.

  • @xlxDxlx
    @xlxDxlx Před 5 lety

    "At least it's not Papyrus" I'll drink to that.

  • @109Rage
    @109Rage Před 5 lety +5

    1:54
    >like one in 2010 called Dyslexie
    Not even gonna sample it, huh?
    Oh wait... has a patent and restrictive copyright license… lame.

  • @nikkigriffin6441
    @nikkigriffin6441 Před 5 lety +1

    I have what’s called phonological awareness. It’s does involve problem with phonology but that’s only one part of it. I’ve never considered that different fonts might help.

  • @airsickspace9272
    @airsickspace9272 Před 5 lety

    I hear the question do my letters flip because of my dyslexia and I’m glad this vid clarified it cause it can easily be ignored or missed. I don’t mind the question, I don’t mind helping someone understand it. I’m just glad the video didn’t go past it.

  • @indigodragon0613
    @indigodragon0613 Před 5 lety +1

    My former science teacher hated comic sans so much lol. Myself and one other student would regularly change all of the teacher’s computer slides to comic sans just to mess with him. We’d also write all of our electronic documents in comic sans. That was pretty much the one thing I looked forward to in school. Also, the teacher was awesome and playing pranks on each other was a regular occurrence in that class. I actually like comic sans and had it as my default font on my phone, which was fun.

  • @Duke00x
    @Duke00x Před 5 lety

    It is good that they are unique letters and somewhat spaced apart but too spaced apart becomes worse because it gives you trouble again knowing where one word ends and another begins. Larger fonts and darker letters help me (especially larger fonts or really just normal fonts enlarged)

  • @ThrottleKitty
    @ThrottleKitty Před 5 lety +1

    I think it might have to do with ability to quickly and easily recognize the full word as a coherent symbol. I wonder if dyslexia is less common in languages that use single symbols to represent entire syllables / words? Comic Sans has a tendency to form very distinct looking words, while still being quick and easy to recognize all the individual letters that make up that word.

  • @eloujtimereaver4504
    @eloujtimereaver4504 Před 5 lety

    "at least it's not papyrus" Them's be fightin words.

  • @eclipse5393
    @eclipse5393 Před 5 lety +9

    Comic Sans is a great font... change my mind

  • @spohie88
    @spohie88 Před 5 lety

    As a person with dyslexia, full caps is possibly one of the hardest things for me to read and write (take note). Calibri is actually my favourite font to type in and read.

  • @ketsuekikumori9145
    @ketsuekikumori9145 Před 5 lety +5

    Does anyone have dyslexia and is multilingual? Curious as to how you read your other language vs english. By how, I mean your process in decoding what you're reading. Do you find one language easier to read vs another? Mostly curious how hard it is to read some more complicated script like chinese vs something simpler like english.

    • @LulitaInPita
      @LulitaInPita Před 5 lety +1

      Hmmm interesting questions!

    • @potatoes9125
      @potatoes9125 Před 5 lety +1

      But it doesn't just affect reading.....

    • @bloodangelsheart
      @bloodangelsheart Před 5 lety +3

      I speak basic Japanese and have dyslexia. I found learning another language, while incrediblely difficult, quite benifical to understanding and over coming my dyslexia. With Japanese, they use three different alphabets, 2 that are sound base (like english) and one that is symbol based. The language uses both alphabets at the same time, that is really useful to me as it breaks up the sentences. Also a symbol is far easier to "read" the a bunch of letter put together.

    • @bloodangelsheart
      @bloodangelsheart Před 5 lety

      @Cuzeg Spiked dyslexia is caused when the brain hasnt got clear pathway in reconising human speach, therefore cause a delay. So what ends up happening is the brain guess what is supposed to be there. So like backwards or blured letters. This can happen with speach too.

    • @ketsuekikumori9145
      @ketsuekikumori9145 Před 5 lety +1

      Makes sense, ideographic languages can convey the meaning of a word in a single character. So as soon as you can figure out some key words, you could probably figure out the sentence by context, speeding up reading. As opposed to phonographic languages which require several characters conveying one word, not several characters conveying several words. I don't have a full understanding of how dyslexia affects reading comprehension and it varies from person to person, but can it be affected by syntax too? In which case, how difficult is it to read Japanese when there is a sentence that has all three systems, katakana, kanji, and hiragana? I'd imagine the kanji can speed up comprehension since it's ideographic vs the phonographic of katakana and hiragana.
      Edit: Sorry for making you read this.

  • @baranxlr
    @baranxlr Před 5 lety +24

    sans undertale funny moments

    • @MochYee
      @MochYee Před 5 lety

      NYEH HEH HEH
      wait...

  • @mikeg9b
    @mikeg9b Před 5 lety

    1:38 In this column of text, Comic Sans jumps out at you and is, by far, the easiest part to read.

  • @johnnychang4233
    @johnnychang4233 Před 5 lety +1

    Dislexia may be caused by the difficulty to distinguish evenly drawn pictograph, something that comic sans look more relaxed.

  • @haiggoh
    @haiggoh Před 5 lety +1

    Now THAT'S what I call a controversial, provocative video title.

  • @odan49ak47
    @odan49ak47 Před 5 lety

    I was really trying to pay attention but that shirt had me asking all types of questions, like where can I get one? Why was this not in the world before now? And the person who made it is obviously a God

  • @ferngirltlc
    @ferngirltlc Před 5 lety

    This made me feel very protective of a certain pair of skeletons.

  • @rayk01
    @rayk01 Před 5 lety

    Hear pepop start talking about comic sans and Gunnarolla‘s song starts playing aggressively in my head:
    “COMIC SANS IS THE BEST FONT IN THE WORLD ♪”

  • @whatsinadeadname
    @whatsinadeadname Před 5 lety

    That shirt puts the plaid in platypus in plaid. XD

  • @ronnepony
    @ronnepony Před 5 lety +1

    i have dyslexia and the special font doesnt work because its too distracting, like its more a drawing then it is letters. (heard this from other people too) this is also true with comic sans but less so. I prefer simple fonts like arial or calibri

  • @gizmogoose.2486
    @gizmogoose.2486 Před 5 lety

    She speaks my language!
    "Papyrus" the *Stylish* typeface for _Arizona Retirement Community Monthly Newsletter Editors._

  • @chaii_latte
    @chaii_latte Před 5 lety +1

    What's she mean comic sans isn't wide spaced? look at it compared to other fonts. Its got wider spaces between letters. Also notice there's no sharp edges on the leters. They're all rounded. That helps. In distinguishing letters.

  • @supersonica08
    @supersonica08 Před 5 lety

    Your shirt is awesome.

  • @HoD999x
    @HoD999x Před 5 lety

    all scishow psych episodes in a nutshell: "we don't know what's going on and more research is needed"

  • @JoelFeila
    @JoelFeila Před 5 lety

    The first time I read anything in Opendylexic it was crazy being able to read much faster. I could read fast enough to keep if with my mind rather always having my mind go faster than my eyes.

  • @Furiends
    @Furiends Před 5 lety

    In terms of neurology developmental dyslexia is just a preference for the broca area over the inferior parietal lobule. There doesn't seem to be an overall lowering of brain activity which puts into question its a disorder at all. (in terms of the colloquial terminology. The DSM now defines much rarer disorders all under the banner of dyslexia) The broca area is generally thought of as important for speech production and language processing. While the Inferior parietal lobule is involved in sensory processing.
    Dyslexics exhibit certain information processing advantages including enhanced spacial processing. (they can rotate complex geometric structures in their head among other interesting things.) Further the brocas area is activated with complex sentence structures and ambiguous language. This suggests its used for a more thorough processing of language comprehension and perhaps its not as good at quick recognition of word or word parts. An analogue I've heard a lot is that dyslexics think of words like pictures. Being a dyslexic myself I can say this is pretty accurate. I can read just fine but its difficult to learn the spelling of new words.
    Whats going on in a dyslexics mind is the pairing of phonemes that you actually use in language processing and clusters of graphemes (letters or symbol parts). In English those are super inconsistent and that either leads to remembering lots of word anomalies or whole words and being unable to generalize patterns that are inconsistently used in English. Generally a dyslexic person prefers spelling phonetically for this reason. A dyslexics slower speed is likely do to the fact that they are trying to match the most useful clusters of letters with phonemes. That is the ones that are most consistent which usually means large word parts or whole words. This is why dyslexia fonts get such mixed reviews because the only way they are really helping is making sure those large clusters of graphemes dyslexics use aren't being confused with other clusters either by larger letter spacing or more distinct serifs and that in itself relies largely on how a dyslexic person learned to read.
    It is likely that developmental dyslexia will only really be "cured" by specific language adaptations like phonetic spelling and using many more phonemes keeping their consistent meanings instead of inconsistently reusing a smaller set of phonemes with ambiguous meaning. In linguists speak that is called shallow orthography. Dyslexia then basically learn in two language layers. First in the phoneme meaning layer than in the word construction layer.
    It's a bit meta and speculative however it makes a lot of sense to me that this has a lot to do with how humans learn to process mathematical and geometric information. After all if a circle had a set of accent rules and above a certain size it was a edgeless square and below a certain size its a hallow dot I'd imagine it'd be much harder to manipulate and conceptualize in your mind. That is dyslexics would be more adapt to languages where word parts are more like lego pieces and there was lots of ways to construct the same meaning out of those parts rather than meaning largely coming from highly specific contextual conventions.

  • @jackhomsher2281
    @jackhomsher2281 Před 5 lety

    When I get really tired, sometimes everything I read starts looking like comic sans

  • @knife_wizard
    @knife_wizard Před 5 lety +1

    I LIKE THE PAPYRUS FONT, THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

  • @NotHPotter
    @NotHPotter Před 5 lety +5

    It probably helps that they don't look like real letters.

    • @NimanWielder01
      @NimanWielder01 Před 5 lety

      'Real' letters?

    • @oakstrong1
      @oakstrong1 Před 5 lety +2

      I use Comic Sans as my main font in worksheets for kindergarten and lower primary school children: it is not perfect but it is the closest of normal handwriting there is that comes as standard with Ms Office. Just compare particularly letters a and you see what I mean. some fonts also have letter g that looks like glasses with one handle broken. I have a form of dyslexia that doesn't affect my reading (but I struggled with all the other things dyslexic children do, including flipping and fusing letters when writing) but I found that kind of g difficult. Unfortunately it seems much less common now compared to books printed in 40's - early 60's. Modern style precursive primary font is perhaps one of the easiest for learner or dyslexic readers: the Sans style helps to differentiate between b & d but the "critical" letters still look closely like handwritten print letters. Sassoon is a popular font used in schools with a bigger budget, but it is so expensive many schools stick to Comic Sans and other free fonts.

  • @cattiefogelsong6399
    @cattiefogelsong6399 Před 5 lety

    I was diegnosis with Dyslexia as a child. I don’t have it but I have always had trouble reading. Comics Sans was my flavored fount and it was similar to my handwriting. Then I found out everyone hated it.
    I decided to pick a fount and get really comfortable with it. I chose Times New Roman. I can read almost anything in that found and struggle with any other.

  • @geminikutie6141987
    @geminikutie6141987 Před 5 lety

    I was always told it was because it's the closest to how we write. Especially in letters like a and g

  • @chriswalker7632
    @chriswalker7632 Před 5 lety

    What would happen if I accidently stepped on an existentialist's grave? (it relates to a saying when you get the 'jitters' for no apparent reason). Also. Should we base exercise programs on the behavior of recently deased corpses? - y'know, to get the fundamentals of what the body (even when dead) most would like to do.

  • @m_d_c_t
    @m_d_c_t Před 5 lety +2

    I see that mbmbam goof at the start. Can't fool me.

  • @pierreabbat6157
    @pierreabbat6157 Před 5 lety

    Is there an Ediacara font to go along with Cambria?

  • @tawon1984
    @tawon1984 Před 5 lety +2

    I've never even heard of this before. Hell, i've never heard of any of these other types of writing she's talking about.

  • @00Linares00
    @00Linares00 Před 5 lety

    Great shirt

  • @isabellamcalonan3916
    @isabellamcalonan3916 Před 5 lety +2

    maybe it helps bc being a childish font it's commonly used in school, when kids are learning how to read. then they get used to the shapes of the letters. it could explain why more commonly used fonts are easier to read than others, and why dyslexie isn't effective for everyone.

    • @NimanWielder01
      @NimanWielder01 Před 5 lety

      That's what I was thinking: it's familiar.

    • @oakstrong1
      @oakstrong1 Před 5 lety +1

      The letters in Comic Sans are close to handwritten print taught in kindergartens and primary schools. The similarity with our first fonts and it's availability makes it both easy to read and popular. Shame it is deliberately made to look like a child's writing, clear but a little quirky, rather than a model to strive for. Also, like all Sans serif fonts, it makes it more difficult for beginner readers to differentiate between b and d. With Serif fonts b does not have the flick, tail or whatever you call it, but letter d does. That also makes it impossible to confuse the letter with letter p if it is upside d (for example when playing word games with letter tiles.

  • @pauldelaunay6075
    @pauldelaunay6075 Před 5 lety

    Awesome, 👍

  • @Telenaus
    @Telenaus Před 5 lety

    dyslexi pulls my eyes in a way thats not comfortable, i figure if maybe i had learned reading with it i might like it better, the the bbc program where its single letters i love that one perrty sure if i could use that at a font size i can see id be able to read it much faster than either CS or Dyslexi

  • @morninggloryvisuals
    @morninggloryvisuals Před 5 lety

    I use to work design, it's really good for fake hand writing but it got over used in the 2000s. It does not help my dyslexic-ass with reading at all, I like serf fonts because it guide my eyes better to the next word. Makes it easier for my eyes to track.

  • @andreakimmel6651
    @andreakimmel6651 Před 5 lety

    I have dyslexia, and I wonder who decided on the characteristics for these "Dyslexic" fonts. I was blown away when I could use 'Open Dyslexic' on my kindle, but only because it changed the characters without affecting the space between them. As soon as I tried the same font on my PC it was a nightmare, the spaces between letters within words were comparible to the spaces between the words. My brain was having trouble recognizing anything, prefixes and suffixes got all mixed up. In my experiance, larger spacing is helpful ONLY when the letters are not unique, and 'heavy.' Once I have unique characters, my reading speed improves, but that's makes the extra spacing issue a problem. While the letters are easily recognizible, the addition space means that words are no longer easily recognizible. I can read the letters easily but assembling them becomes the problem. WHICH IS WHY COMIC SANS MAKES PERFECT SENSE!

  • @kokocho
    @kokocho Před 5 lety

    As a primary school teacher, I use comic sans when I don't have access to my area's specific education font. I find it's the standard font that is closest to handwriting and so my grade 1 and 2 students find it the easiest to read. It makes me wonder if that possibly has anything to do with it.

  • @elizafeller3433
    @elizafeller3433 Před rokem

    I myself have dyslexia and find that reading in this font is a lot easier. I'd say it has to do with the fact that all the letters are individually designed differently. It makes it a lot easier for me to read that way because now my brain isn't spending so much energy on weather what I am reading is a d or a b, or a o and an c. Etc.

  • @fisqual
    @fisqual Před 5 lety

    Was going to comment 'at least it's not papyrus' and you beat me to it! 💩

  • @kewgardensstation
    @kewgardensstation Před 5 lety +1

    Is that a plaidypus on Brit's shirt?

  • @JohnnyParanoid
    @JohnnyParanoid Před 5 lety +1

    Interesting, but how do you help dyscalculia? Interested because I suffer from it.

    • @celinak5062
      @celinak5062 Před 5 lety +2

      + writing out the name of the number, next to it.

  • @vypxl
    @vypxl Před 5 lety +1

    How could one ditch papyrus? Sans is nothing without him

  • @martianmanfrommars8428

    Comic Sans: is considered the worst font.
    Impact: *I’m about to end this man’s whole career.*

  • @R0I3I3IE
    @R0I3I3IE Před 5 lety

    This freaked me out a little because, when growing up, I would ALWAYS choose comic sans no matter what but I obviously didn't know why. I just "liked" the font over all others.

  • @pXnTilde
    @pXnTilde Před 5 lety

    My problem with Dylexie is the spacing. In general, though I feel most comfortable with simple sans fonts like Calibri. I think it's because there's just less noise. Serifs are a nightmare for me.

  • @Thelostrune
    @Thelostrune Před 5 lety

    Don't worry, there's always Comic Papyrus, which is exactly what it sounds like.

  • @The_passiveObserver
    @The_passiveObserver Před 5 lety +1

    Insert sans meme :

  • @HayTatsuko
    @HayTatsuko Před 5 lety

    Plaidy's a lumberjack and she's okay~

  • @TheCraftySam
    @TheCraftySam Před 5 lety

    Not sure if this will ever be seen, or even answered, by why is it you when you hand in an assignment you immediately think of like 200+ things you could have added?

  • @unleashingpotential-psycho9433

    I think comic sans looks fine.

  • @makyx4303
    @makyx4303 Před 5 lety

    there simply needs to be someone with an papyrus account that makes a comment about the last sentence.