Normally I would be all for peer reviewed, but this is a fantastic example where that’s a stupid fucking metric.

Comic sans existed before efforts to formally make a dyslexic assistance font.

Comic sans has been casually recommended by many dyslexic communities and assistance programs because sans serif fonts are helpful and fonts with unique letter shapes are helpful.

Comic sans for many years was one of the only fonts that fit both categories. But by the time formal efforts went into place, comic sans quickly became unneeded in the space. There’s no reason at all TO do a formal study on it when it was never intended for the use case.

What studies there are in fonts from the time lean towards it being helpful for reading speed and understandability in children. But none of the studies of the error really focused on dyslexia so at best you can only infer based on adjacent findings it even then it’s loose at best.

Point is just because something doesn’t have formal research on it doesn’t make it not true and that years of casual helpfulness just vanish.

So get off the little petty wagon where you hate something just because it’s overused. Comic sans is a useful and fun little font that just gets over used.