like. okay. who actually cares. the fact that it makes reading easier for some dyslexic ppl is already proven by the fonts popularity. not every little thing needs scientists to swoop in to Verify. if it doesn't work for everyone that's fine. just TRY STUFF and see if it works FOR YOU.
our society's media WORSHIPS the scientific method and peer review as the only legitimate way to Know something which drives me up a wall, especially when these same journalists often don't even UNDERSTAND science and they turn around and are like "a new study has demonstrated that eating eggs makes you lonely".
we might be able to make other typefaces more readable if there's some underlying basis for the typeface's readability
as far as i'm aware, there's three reasons comic sans gets used
- comic sans has looser letter spacing, so it's easier to pick out individual letters and words
- comic sans has less symmetry, so it's harder to confuse letter and word shapes.
- someone goes down the default font list and comic sans is the only one that seems friendly, or handwritten
at least two of those things are in other typefaces, like "read regular" or "dyslexie"
http://www.readregular.com/, https://dyslexiefont.com/en/typeface/
