I'm Comic Sans, Asshole

[Codicier]

I'm never going to be able to think about Comic Sans without also thinking this (http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/monologues/15comicsans.html)anymore.

[n3rdXcore]

Goddamn I love McSweeney's.

[BigJonno]

That was all kinds of win.

[diablopath]

No. Fuck all of you. We're not in third grade.

[Grifter]

Damn, that was funny as hell! I also had a specific person in mind who he was talking to which just made it all that much better.

[iHap]

I just broke your thread with Lucida Sans

[The Continental]

Like daffodils in motherfucking spring.

[Lint of Death]

MEMORANDUM

To: Colony of Gamers

From: Lint of Death

Date: June 19, 2010

Subject: Re: "I'm Comic Sans, Asshole"

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LOL Papyrus

[Savok]

Never gotten the hate for Comic Sans, I like the font

[muddi900]

I am gonna go hammered with papyrus.

[TheKeck]

At least comic sans has 'a's that look like 'a's.

[Hawkzombie]

PALATINO LINOTYPE, Mutha Fuckas!!!

[OrangePulp]

Even spaced font, the enemy of letter discrimination. Just because i and l are slim, doesn't mean they deserve less room than the rest of the characters.

[Savok]

That's an attack on their cultural diversity!

[H.Bogard]

I use Verdana 'cause I'm sexy.

[Lithium Flower]

Catapults are cool!

[Pigeon]

I can't understand a thing you jerks are saying

[Panthera]

Goddammit, I kept zooming in and out on this page because I thought I accidentally changed the font size.

[Ink Asylum]

There's nothing inherently wrong with Comic Sans. The hate comes from the trend where it is used by non-designers for applications it does not work. It becomes a fad where every small business owner, landlord, and newsletter writer uses it no matter what the content.

[rein]

There's nothing inherently wrong with Comic Sans. The hate comes from the trend where it is used by non-designers for applications it does not work. It becomes a fad where every small business owner, landlord, and newsletter writer uses it no matter what the content.

So we hate it because it's popular?

Don't hate the font. Hate the idiots that use it in the wrong content.

[Hotcod]

I don't hate the font, in fact I feel sorry for it, it's abused in so many awful ways it's kinda sad. The font has, from a design a very strict set of uses which it's very rarely used for and now if you do use it in a way that makes sense you have all the baggage that has accrued from that abuse that it's no longer useful. Design has to take in to account perception, in fact managing perception using visual language is pretty much what design is. Comic Sans now has a perception of being armature and crude and so the only time a real designer will now use it is when that perception is one they want to get across. Which is sad because comic sans as a comic book font has it's uses which you now can't use it for.

[Ink Asylum]

Hotcod gets to the root of it. When fonts are used improperly they get a certain image, not just from designers but from the public as well. That degrades their usefulness, even in proper formats. A similar thing has happened to the maligned Papyrus. It has its uses but it's been so abused that it doesn't have the right impact any more.

[Deadend]

Hotcod gets to the root of it. When fonts are used improperly they get a certain image, not just from designers but from the public as well. That degrades their usefulness, even in proper formats. A similar thing has happened to the maligned Papyrus. It has its uses but it's been so abused that it doesn't have the right impact any more.

Nothing says blue-hippy-alien taking quite like Papyrus.

[Hotcod]

Avatars use of Paprus was a case of something that had such a weight of perception behind it that it could use the font as it was intended and have it's own momentum crush the common perception in favour of the actual viable use it was created for. Once you get over the shock of seeing the font being used right by a big budget project you accept it as it was intended and it works and one can only hope that comic sans finds the same outlet one day. None custom fonts shouldn't be limited by "hahah that sucks 'cus only sucky people use it"

[biosc1]

http://www.nba.com/cavaliers/news/gilbert_letter_100708.html

They are mocking him for using Comic Sans (http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/web/07/09/comic.sans.cavs.james/index.html?eref=rss_topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+rss/cnn_topstories+(RSS:+Top+Stories)&utm_content=Google+Reader), but I think it works.

[Savok]

Why would you ever write an angry letter in Comic Sans...

[Dorkandproudofit]

Times New Roman: The font of choice for research papers, book reports, and other assorted academic assignments.

[boratika]

Times New Roman:

Go to your naughty corner. There is never an excuse for that abomination.

[Vigil80]

Go to your naughty corner. There is never an excuse for that abomination.
Except for the fact that 9 out of 10 teachers I and likey many more people ever had demanded it.

I never use comic Sans for anything, ever. Before I realized how overused it was, I just thought it looked stupid.

[boratika]

Except for the fact that 9 out of 10 teachers I and likey many more people ever had demanded it.

No excuses!

[Dorkandproudofit]

Alright, I'm in the corner... what do I do while I'm here?

[Narradisall]

I'm dark and moody, and go well in emails.

[roboninja]

This sentence just cured cancer.

[MagGnome]

Hotcod gets to the root of it. When fonts are used improperly they get a certain image, not just from designers but from the public as well. That degrades their usefulness, even in proper formats. A similar thing has happened to the maligned Papyrus. It has its uses but it's been so abused that it doesn't have the right impact any more.

Who cares?

I'll never understand why people get their panties in a twist over a font. My god!

[muddi900]

Who cares?

I'll never understand why people get their panties in a twist over a font. My god!

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Also, the documentary Helvetica.

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You'll never look at fonts the same way!

[boratika]

Who cares?

I'll never understand why people get their panties in a twist over a font. My god!

You're one of those "advertising doesn't affect me" types, aren't you? :p

[MagGnome]

You'll never look at fonts the same way!

Helvetica is in my Netflix queue. I'll watch it sometime soon. :)


You're one of those "advertising doesn't affect me" types, aren't you? :p

No, I just don't understand why someone would flip out over the use of a font.

[muddi900]

Helvetica is in my Netflix queue. I'll watch it sometime soon. :)


Be sure to check out the 'sequel', Objectified,which is about good design in general.

[MagGnome]

Will do, thanks!