Why I created Comic Sans

Re:Why I created Comic Sans by derleth on Monday March 11, 2013 @12:55AM (#5354975)

> there's nothing wrong with capital letters or all-caps

In the transportation world, all-caps is known to be harder to read than mixed-case in fixed-message signs:

http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/5892/is-all-caps...

All-caps is also generally less legible than all-lower-case:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_caps (in particular reference 7, Tinker, Miles A. (1963). Legibility of Print. Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University Press. p. 65. ISBN 6316674.)

My point is that it isn't just a matter of taste. There are known, quantified ways in which all-caps is worse. Ditto Comic Sans, if you read another response to your post.

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Re:Why I created Comic Sans by joezydeco on Monday March 11, 2013 @01:56PM (#5358454)

Re: transportation, there's a lot of interesting data collected on the design of Clearview, the new typeface for the US interstate road system:

http://clearviewhwy.com/ResearchAndDesign/legibilityStudies....

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