Despite the hatred among typophiles, Comic Sans managed to become an ubiquitous font.
I think that we must look beyond the dogma/bigotry and try to understand the popularity of the font.
Its fun personality has been mentioned in several posts in the comments, but comicsanscriminal.com ironically offers another major argument in favor of the font: its legibility.
Comic Sans is popular at elementary school and among dyslexic people because it is easier to read for them. Even though non-dyslexic adults are better at deciphering other fonts, I wouldn't be surprised if the attentional/cognitive load for reading Comic Sans was lower that what's needed for any of the so-called "better" fonts.
I think that we must look beyond the dogma/bigotry and try to understand the popularity of the font.
Its fun personality has been mentioned in several posts in the comments, but comicsanscriminal.com ironically offers another major argument in favor of the font: its legibility.
Comic Sans is popular at elementary school and among dyslexic people because it is easier to read for them. Even though non-dyslexic adults are better at deciphering other fonts, I wouldn't be surprised if the attentional/cognitive load for reading Comic Sans was lower that what's needed for any of the so-called "better" fonts.
This could be scientifically tested easily.