The entire comic was in comic sans!

[brown_betty]

Let's talk about books!

(Oh man, you guys, Yuletide!)

Has anyone ever encountered a book that was unreadable because of the font? Or, maybe just a book that was bizarrely difficult to read because of the font? I remember checking a John Barnes out of the library (possibly Mother of Storms? I remember something about islands.) which, due to

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[jeff2001]

It totally does matter. The wrong font and I can't even do it. A book recently, I Looked Inside[tm] on Amazon and the font was sans serif. Which is fine for pamphlets and advertisements, but not for a book -- one needs a font with hooks to adhere to the eye!

[snarp]

I feel a deep and abiding anger for all manga adaptations where one character gets their own a special typeface, because they're undead or huge or something, and huge undead people obviously require special typefaces. Sometimes the localizers will choose something that's readable.

A character in the last volume of Sugar Sugar Rune speaks in a font so stylized I kept accidentally skipping over their dialog, because it didn't look like words to me.

[brown_betty]

Queen Victoria, of The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace Babbage, uses the most amazingly obnoxious typeface, but I file that is, in part, the joke, and I allow it.

[rsadelle]

It wasn't quite enough to make me stop reading (the idiocy of the main character eventually did that), but I hated with a passion the font on a hardcover edition of at least one of the books in Kate Elliott's Crown of Stars series. I did, at the time, figure out what font it was, but I've now forgotten. It might have been Adobe Caslon Pro.