Re: Killing comic sans

Subject: Re: Killing comic sans
From: Phil <philstokes03 -at- googlemail -dot- com>
To: Daniel Feiglin <daniel_f -at- radwin -dot- com>
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 21:38:53 +0800

How about chalkduster, which looks like this:
http://screencast.com/t/sWvqBFJ5O1



On 28 Nov 2010, at 14:38, Daniel Feiglin wrote:

> My wife uses a very large Comic Sans font to produce page-size letters for kids to use while learning to write in English. The reason for her odd choice, is that it is the only font we could find which has a lower case "a" as you write it rather than this "a". She also wanted the lower case "t" without the twiddle on the bottom - again as you write it.
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> Can anyone suggest a more attractive sans font (closer to those we use day to day) to teach print style letters (not continuous script) for elementary handwriting?
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> I saw a technical tutorial once that was set in Comic Sans. I think the writer thought the font was friendly and informal, but to me the font choice completely undermined the credibility of the document.
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> A 2007 post by Stuart Brown on his blog Modern Life discussed the Vista "C" fonts (Cambria, Calibri, Candara. Constantia, Corbel, and Consolas). I am taken by Consolas, which is a fixed-width font designed to replace Courier New--and about time, I say. It gets my vote.
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> Ref: http://modernl.com/article/new-vista-fonts-and-the-web
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References:
RE: Killing comic sans: From: Steven Jong
RE: Killing comic sans: From: Daniel Feiglin

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