Depending on how you feel certain fonts, your Instagram Stories experience is either about to get a lot more interesting, more likely, a lot worse. That’s because Instagram has brought in four new fonts. You have new stencil ad serif options, and also one that has an uncanny resemblance to Comic Sans. While it’s not an exact match for the world’s most hated font. it’s close enough where it’s almost certain to elicit many of the same reactions.
But before you start nagging and complaining to Instagram about its typography choices, there’s likely a good explanation the company decided to add a Comic Sans-like font. As Mashable points outs, Comic Sans is seen to be one of the easier fonts for people with dyslexia to read. The Irregularity of each individual alphabet makes words easier to parse.
Former Microsoft typographer Vincent Connare created Comic Sans in 1994. Getting information from the lettering in comic books like Watchmen, Connare saw people using the font for informal documents and children’s books. As these things usually go, people and social media had different ideas.
Moreover, for all ways people have misused Comic Sans, Connare has no regrets about designing it. “The level of hatred was amazing and quite funny,” he told The Guardian in 2017. “I couldn’t believe people could get so worked up about a font.”
You can check out all the new fonts by adding a text to a Story and then using the interface element that appears above the keyboard to switch between them. Unless you operate an account dedicated to Doge memes, never forget to use the font sparingly and tastefully.
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