Should all ebooks be in Comic Sans?

[rogue_librarian]

Originally Posted by DrDln

Don't use comic sans if you want readers to take you seriously. BTW, I didn't take that criticism too seriously.

You should. Look at it at this way: there are no readers for whom a different "fancy" font wouldn't work equally well, but there are some who will instantly dismiss everything written in that, uh, abomination.

It's the content that people pay attention to not the fonts.

The best font in the world won't save you if your book is uninteresting, but it's still possible to spoil a good book by using the wrong font.

[Freeshadow]

AAARGH my eyes!!! are bleeding
I'm sure that posting in this font is mentioned in some addendums to the Geneva Conventions. Case not, it should get a high priority on the todo-list.

[Solitaire1]

Originally Posted by RainingLemur

The poor bunny , this thread alone has led to three punches. We must do what we can to prevent the bunny from being punched.

[AprilHare]

Originally Posted by Solitaire1

The poor bunny , this thread alone has led to three punches. We must do what we can to prevent the bunny from being punched.

You mean if I use lots of Comic Sans, I can end up with coney stew for tea? Yum!
What's the catch?

[Freeshadow]

IMO and experience said articles statement is CRAP.
The typographers/printers have worked more and more methods throughout the centuries to make text more fluently readable and what was good in print is now said to be evil in digital?

Extremely bad typeset or hard to read glyphs tire. So they can hardly be helpful in perception.

I even remember I came across a very "shaky" text design by purpose (it was RPG background description) done so in order to transport a certain discomfort to the reader; the glyphs (anong other inconveniences) were minimally not straight, as if a manually typset letter matrix would have been shaken before printing.
The perception was (for me) like reading while being driven over a cobbled street - imagine nausea w/o moving...

Even being no historian I came across hard(er)-to read samples as Fraktur, Sütterlin, or Uncial (here you even lack capitals, spacing and interpunction - the text is a continuous stream of glyphs) Belive me it doesn't help neither in perception, nor memorizing.

[rogue_librarian]

Originally Posted by Freeshadow

The typographers/printers have worked more and more methods throughout the centuries to make text more fluently readable and what was good in print is now said to be evil in digital?

No, no. There is just the theory that text that takes more effort to read might be remembered better in the case of textbooks. This is apparently true for regular pbooks as well.

[Freeshadow]

IMO the content of a lot of textbooks is heavy enough matter.
no need for added artificial bumpers. I need a good reading flow on them in order to concentrate and mentally process the content.

[DrDln]

Originally Posted by rogue_librarian

You should. Look at it at this way: there are no readers for whom a different "fancy" font wouldn't work equally well, but there are some who will instantly dismiss everything written in that, uh, abomination.

Thanks for your response. I was talking about small part of the cover in one of the books but then I replaced with another suitable font for which I don't remember the name; unless someone can tell from the cover.

The best font in the world won't save you if your book is uninteresting, but it's till possible to spoil a good book by using the wrong font.

Perhaps the font on the cover could spoil a good book but any common fonts such as Times will do for rest of the book. Thanks.

[AprilHare]

It should be noted that the fiber laser lectures I received this year were PowerPoint and all in Comic Sans. I guess serious people do use Comic Sans..

[Tome Keeper]

Originally Posted by AprilHare

This article suggests that books in slightly harder to read fonts such as Comic Sans allow readers to remember more details than crisp fonts such as Arial.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2...30/3230891.htm
The question posed was: should all ebooks be in Comic Sans?

I wouldn't say Comic Sans is harder to read. At work we provide all written work in Comic Sans for children with lower reading ages/learning difficulties because it is easier to read.

[Native]

To my own uncultured eyes, comic sans in smaller sizes is one of the most readable and unobtrusive fonts, and I used it for my entire anti-elitest book. But as the source file, it's not viable for e-books anyway. Sad, because it really helps define the melting-pot perspective.

[Richey79]

[Lirael]

I had a professor once who used the harder-to-read-stuff-makes-you-remember-it-better argument as an excuse to make his lecture slides with neon text on a white background.

I stopped attending that lecture.