Hard to read text?

[Badger]

I want a kiddy scrawl for my default speech text,
after testing it with my gf I'm thinking it might be too difficult to read,
though want another opinion (don't tell her!)


(it's a little blurry here :/)

[Gilbert]

It's really very hard to read.

1. Font.
2. The red colour. It actually makes my eyes painful and I wouldn't even dare to stare at the text to read what they're about.
3. JPEG artefacts just make it even worse by some large order of magnitude. For some reasons JPEG artefacts are most noticeably destroying the clarity of images in areas of red colour (maybe it's just my own perception but that's always what I feel about it). Either use a less aggressive compression ratio, or use lossless formats such as png or gif (in fact, black text on single colour background should compress VERY well with lossless formats, in many cases may even yield smaller files than using JPEG).

[Wonkyth]

Apart from what Gilbet said:
Kids use block letters,  with the occasional lowercase e or something thrown in.
Focus on the capitols.
The only problem you have then is that unless you're careful it'll look like the characters are yelling all the time.

[Badger]

it was more about the custom font, but fair point Gilbet red and JPEG were bad choices to show :/