[jdthedisciple]

Looks nice, though my guess is it would be more appealing to kids if it used more color, a bigger font size and a more "fun" font family like Comic Sans perhaps.

Nice work though, would definitely consider this for my own kids.

[blue1]

Please no. Doh’t feed bad typography to kids.

(When I was a kid, I had access to good design examples. I hated fonts “for kids”. Also, because the essence of play is simulation, and childish fonts ruin the game)

[geraldwhen]

Comic sans black on white is more readable than most copy produced in modern web products.

Designers love grey on grey. I’ll take comic sans any day.

[zasdffaa]

Font and font contrast are entirely orthogonal.

[flobosg]

Are they? Font contrast is a multifaceted concept that encompasses not only color but other properties as well. For instance, stroke weight and its modulation, which are inherent to a typeface.

[zasdffaa]

Can you give a visual example where they're not? (other than anti-aliasing round the edges)

[flobosg]

See https://medium.com/alex-couch-s-portfolio/type-hierarchy-and... for some of them. The “blurry eye test” mentioned there is related to the typographical term of color (see https://bigelowandholmes.typepad.com/bigelow-holmes/2015/04/... and https://practicaltypography.com/color.html) which is affected, among other things, by the actual shape of the glyphs. Font contrast has little to do, if anything at all, with anti-aliasing.

[layer8]

While I wouldn’t advocate for Comic Sans, monospace isn’t exactly good typography either.

[mcv]

But appropriate for a game about shell commands.

[throwamon]

> When I was a kid, ... I hated fonts “for kids”

So you were a snob since you were a child. Got it.

Please stop gatekeeping subjective matters.

[lupire]

Kids don't like comics fonts?

[Shared404]

Not when they'ee out of place.

Any time I've worked with kids older than ~8, they'll gravitate away from comic or obviously "kid focused" fonts, and more towards "cool" fonts.

[ape4]

And a mascot - Pipey