I’d always dismissed the anti-Comic Sans as not a big deal; but now I am doing data entry for about 100 forms a week, and they are all faxes scanned into PDF format, originally printed in Comic Sans. Trying to tell an ‘a’ from an ‘o’, or a ‘3’ from a ‘5’, and so on, is ridiculously hard, and the delay caused by my having to repeatedly magnify a word adds a lot of time to this supposed side-task. We tried automating it with OCR, but given the quality, plus the font…
I’d always dismissed the anti-Comic Sans as not a big deal; but now I am doing data entry for about 100 forms a week, and they are all faxes scanned into PDF format, originally printed in Comic Sans. Trying to tell an ‘a’ from an ‘o’, or a ‘3’ from a ‘5’, and so on, is ridiculously hard, and the delay caused by my having to repeatedly magnify a word adds a lot of time to this supposed side-task. We tried automating it with OCR, but given the quality, plus the font…