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Serious Sans

Serious Sans is a more professional take on Microsoft’s much-maligned Comic Sans typeface. The typeface is a project by four students at the Royal College of Art in London. From The Moment blog:

Struggling to understand what could possibly be good about Comic Sans, Valerio โ€” together with partners Hugo Timm, Filip Tydรฉn and Erwan Lhussier โ€” found that the doggedly goofy font’s irregular forms made it one of the easiest typefaces for dyslexics to read. The designers also liked how it undermined the authority โ€” and changed the meaning โ€” of texts set in it.