comic sans
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How is comic sans appropriate for a nursery?
I hate this idea that because you're designing for children, you have to make it look like it's been written by a child. Children's writing is probably the worst for other children to learn to read from. They need to build up a mental image of what each letter should look like.
I nice serif with a largish s-height would be much better to learn from.Rosmary Sassoon (who design sassoon primary) spent her life designing typefaces to help children learn to write. But that is a very different task from learning to read:
http://www.identifont.com/show?3…
If you're from the UK you probably spent a lot of time at school tracing her typefaces (dotted lines)
Anyway, back to Comic Sans.
It was designed to look like the narrative text from comic books (the ones that say 'later', or 'then'.
But there are so many typefaces that do that look a million times better:
http://www.blambot.com/fonts.sht…THERE IS NO NEED FOR COMIC SANS!!!