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Originally Posted by Lemurion
To be honest, the only font I really hate is Arial. I dislike sans-serif as a rule, but Arial I hate. Comic Sans doesn't bother me, but I do read a lot of comic books.
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Although Comic Sans is based on comic book lettering, the actual lettering used in comics has a great deal of variation. One letterer, Bob Lappan, was so good that you could almost hear the spoken words from the text based on the way he lettered it. He was a key member of the 1980s "Justice League" comic (the Bwah-Ha-Ha Era) and per the writer Lappan is the letterer for writers who write too much.
When it comes to Comic Sans, I've found that it's very readable on screens at a very small font (say 6 point) when, at that size, other typefaces are unreadable. This is one of the reasons I use Comic Sans as my composing typeface for emails (I don't send them out with that typeface I just use it for composition, I send my e-mails out as plain text).
I don't hate Arial but I don't like it either. Of the sans serif typefaces, I've recently found that I like Verdana best. On an electronic screen it's easy to read and to me it also looks good when printed on paper.