Ms agent bob4/1/2024 ![]() ![]() While Bob was certainly worthy of Microsoft's efforts, it's worth it to remember that MS was pretty much *always* playing catch-up to Apple in earlier parts of the 90's. (I think it's utter crap, the sort of nonsense you get from people who haven't bothered to study actual typography-reception research, and don't understand psychology very well either.)Īpple's Knowledge Navigator a better predecessor to Cortana I'd pick Twentieth Century MT, say, over Comic Sans if I absolutely needed a closed a and I had to choose among the typefaces already installed on this machine, but that's largely because I have a strong visceral reaction to the whole idea of a "friendly" typeface. For the most part it's hard to argue any of them is "better" than Comic Sans for most purposes. Of course, many of those are novelty fonts (or titling fonts at best). Closed-a is less common than open-a, but it's hardly unique to Comic Sans. Some examples I have to hand are Bell MT italic, Berlin Sans FB, Cambria italic, Century Schoolbook italic, Parchment, Pristina, Segoe Print, Twentieth Century MT. Other fonts have them too, though sometimes only in their italic forms. ![]() The "a" was drawn as it taught in handwriting.( i.e.
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