Okay, okay, I confess. I donāt have strong feelings for or against any typefaces. Over a decade ago, when a classmate asked our professor to be excused from using Helvetica because she hated it, I felt puzzled. āHow do you grow to hate a font? What did the font do to you?ā I wondered.
Iām still wondering. Even Comic Sans and Papyrus seem to have a place and use to me. In fact, hereās an article by A.A. Newton in Lifehacker that claims Comic Sans helps writers overcome writerās block, Get Over Yourself and Start Writing in Comic Sans, and another in The Cut called, Whatās Wrong With Comic Sans?, about how some people with dyslexia find Comic Sans easier read thanks to the irregular shape of its letters.
Still, if Oliver Reichensteinās article, Web Design is 95% Typography, is right, then Iām going to need to learn this typography stuff. In fact, I say, “Bring it on!”
Reading The Equilateral Triangle of a Perfect Paragraph by Matej Latin and playing the Triangle game was very helpful. Iāve found some books on typography at my local library that I look forward to reading. I’m also excited to experiment with combining typefaces in my assignments. However, I plan to keep an open mind towards typefaces as I learn about them. You never know when Comic Sans will be the answer to your problems!