So much for "professionals". No empirical evidence cited to back up any of that bluster. We DON'T CARE about your preposterous fashion-victim taboos.

Chalkboard is possibly a bit better than Comic Sans for readability, I didn't have it to try when I wrote that. That said I have just had a resounding failure with it when preparing a songsheet for somebody with impaired vision. Maybe his eyesight was just so bad I should have gone up to a much larger size.

This is an interesting recent book on fonts:

Just My Type

Usability hardly gets a mention, but it does explain how designers think and why certain fonts have the roles they do in our visual environment.