The Sims Steering Committee - June 4 1998: It shows a very early version of the user interface, that was already using Comic Sans. I recently dug up an early internal pre-release demo of it for "The Sims Steering Committee" from June 4 1998, that convinced EA not to cancel our project. In case you can't stand to read Comic Sans with your own eyes, I also made an external screen scraping utility called Simplifier that reads Comic Sans text off the screen, and catalogs and recites the product descriptions with a speech synthesizer.ĭemo of The Sims Transmogrifier, RugOMatic, ShowNTell, Simplifier and Slice City: Materials appropriate for children might also benefit from the use of Comic Sans. One example of this is the simulation game The Sims, where Comic Sans was used for all in-game text. >Because of it's lighthearted nature, Comic Sans might be appropriate for design situations where humor or lack of seriousness is appropriate. Although maybe it's one reason some people are sick and tired of Comic Sans. "It meets all dyslexic ‘likes’ except mirrored b and d."Īlmost 20 years ago, we shipped a game called The Sims that used Comic Sans all throughout, that sold pretty well in spite of the font. r, n together rn should not look like m, (‘modern’ may scan as, or sound like, ‘modem’.) Most liked rounded a, although perhaps some felt that it may be confused with o. * Different forms for capital I, lowercase l and digit 1. * b and d p and q distinguished, not mirror images. * Good ascenders and descenders, b, d, f, h, k, l, t, and all capitals g, j, p, q, y. Studies showed the following characteristics as being desired: ![]() no 'p' rotated to be 'q', and a variety of different sizes, all of which help make it easier for dyslexics.įrom a bit by the British Dyslexic Association: Comic Sans uses distinct shapes for each character, e.g. One particularly useful property, especially in the education sector, is that dyslexics typically find it decidedly easier to read. I know people really hate Comic Sans, but it has some really useful properties.
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