The story that will change the way you think about Comic Sans.

Most people who aren’t my mum will agree that Comic Sans MS is the worst font of them all.

It reminds us of Year Three assignments (involving cardboard and too much glue), or dodgy signs in shop windows. In whatever context it’s used, Comic Sans screams ‘don’t take me seriously,’ and for that reason, many of us avoid it at all costs.

But there’s one group of people for whom Comic Sans is actually really important.

In an article titled, ‘Hating Comic Sans is Ableist,’ for website The Establishment, writer Lauren Hudgins argues that for her sister, Jessica, Comic Sans was life changing.

“She’s dyslexic and struggled through school until she was finally diagnosed in her early twenties, enabling her to build up a personal set of tools for navigating the written world,” writes Hudgins.

One of those tools, surprisingly, is Comic Sans.

None of the letters of the font are uniform, which allows people like Hudgins' sister to focus on individual parts of words. While most fonts use the same shapes to make up the different letters of the alphabet (for example, 'p' and 'q', or 'b' and 'd') Comic Sans is comprised of distinct shapes.

Despite the fact that Comic Sans is well-recognised for it's benefits for people with dyslexia (organisations such as the British Dyslexia Association recommend it), the online community insists on hating it, even calling to ban it.

As Hudgins points out, there's a petition to ban Comic Sans from Gmail, and two graphic designer Holly Combs has said, "using Comic Sans is like turning up to a black-tie event in a clown costume".

In fact, Holly and David Combs have created a manifesto, which reads, "by banding together to eradicate this font from the face of the earth we strive to ensure that future generations will be liberated from this epidemic and never suffer this scourge that is the plague of our time".

To most of us, this sort of obsession with a bad font is funny. It's... ridiculous, and laughing about it gives us the distinct sense we're not hurting anyone.

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But for many people with dyslexia who grew up in the '90s, Comic Sans is a support tool they've become used to.

"My mind has been getting used to Comic Sans," Hudgins' sister told her.

For Jessica, the worst font of them all is Times New Roman, because she simply cannot read it.

At university, where she studies marine zoology, she needs to download class notes from her lecturers, change the font to Comic Sans, and make it several times larger.

Only then is she able to read as well as her classmates.

So, yes, our irrational hatred of Comic Sans can be pretty bloody funny. But not for everyone.