A chance to look at the way you’re presenting your work and seeing if you can frame it differently. This isn’t a call for the culling of all other fonts sans-Sans, but a moment to reconsider. That equates to an annual splurge of £249 billion, which is no small number to even the richest bean-counter. One in five people across the UK have a disability, and their spending power is what’s often referred to as ‘The Purple Pound’. Between 20, more than 8 million UK adults were described as having ‘poor’ literacy skills - accessible design has to work for them, too.Ĭutting out Comic Sans limits your creative’s commercial potential, too. Because it's not just the 10% of the population with dyslexia who struggle with reading. With almost 400,000 data points from more than 2,500 respondents, one of the main takeaways was fairly simple: design for characteristics, not conditions. The Readability Group actually just released the results of an accessibility survey it carried out this February.
It’s more widely available than dyslexia-specific fonts such as Dyslexie and OpenDyslexic - if you’re using someone else’s computer, or you’ve installed a new programme that requires you to input copy, then you can rest assured that Comic Sans is coming along for the party. In terms of literal accessibility, Comic Sans is the best of the bunch for mainstream typefaces. There’s a reason why it’s so often used in schools - it’s easy to read! The typography is also spacious, giving readers the chance to distinguish the letters. For someone who might not be able to separate the glyphs on an ‘a’ from a ‘g’, that’s massively helpful. When it comes to legibility, the individual characters are really easy to pick out, given that each has its own flow and flavour. First of all, it’s highly accessible - in more than one sense of the word. This Global Accessibility Awareness Day, I’m going to defend Comic Sans.
However, it’s the recommended typeface of the British Dyslexia Foundation, and given that 6.3 million people in the UK ( roughly 10% of the population) have the condition, it seems a weird thing to hate on.
Whether these criticisms are light-hearted or serious - and if they are serious, that says more about the critic than the typeface - doesn’t matter because, however you slice it, Comic Sans isn’t given the time of day. There have even been campaigns to ban it.
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