Both tails and carriers come in a variety of shapes, outlines ... direct speech or thoughts of characters in the comic.” Above: Speech bubbles the researchers’ AI model managed to extract.

Though the shape of the speech bubbles is something most readers may have never paid much attention to, they do greatly shape the reading experience. To sum up the issue in simple words ...

"The squashed, wonky, and weird glyphs of Comic Sans have been beaten into shape while maintaining ... who designed it as the typeface for cartoon speech bubbles for the Windows 95 OS, believes ...

An icon of a clock face. An icon of the an X shape. An icon used to represent where to interact to collapse or dismiss a component An icon of a speech bubble. An icon of a speech bubble ...