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Post by Old Viking on Apr 20, 2009 14:46:18 GMT -5
I can think of more important problems.
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Post by Thejebusfire on Apr 20, 2009 14:52:43 GMT -5
26,000 children die of poverty and hunger every day (according to UNICEF) and all we can worry about is a font some website is using.
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Post by Admiral Lithp on Apr 20, 2009 15:36:45 GMT -5
Really, I haven't seen Comic Sans that much, even on the internet. That might partly be due to the fact that, 9 times out of 10, I don't really pay attention to the font that's being used, but meh.
Comic Sans is a great font, but I prefer Papyrus. I'd be all for banning Times New Roman, though. That shit is boring as listening to Distind talk about the finer points of the quote submission program for 3 hours.
(No offense.)
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Post by Sigmaleph on Apr 20, 2009 15:53:23 GMT -5
Comic Sans is a great font, but I prefer Papyrus. I'd be all for banning Times New Roman, though. That shit is boring as listening to Distind talk about the finer points of the quote submission program for 3 hours. And since when are fonts are supposed to be fun? How the hell is "boring" something that bothers you about a font? |
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Post by John E on Apr 20, 2009 17:12:35 GMT -5
Comic Sans is a great font, but I prefer Papyrus. I'd be all for banning Times New Roman, though. That shit is boring as listening to Distind talk about the finer points of the quote submission program for 3 hours. And since when are fonts are supposed to be fun? How the hell is "boring" something that bothers you about a font? |
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Post by ozznova on Apr 20, 2009 22:42:07 GMT -5
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Post by perv on Apr 21, 2009 0:45:33 GMT -5
Speaking of which, the reason it's called Comic Sans is because it looks like comic book lettering. And it's perfectly good for that purpose (though picking something more original might be worth a few style points). It does look bad when people use it for large blocks of text. I guess if you have family, friends or coworkers or insist on using it way all the time, it might get pretty aggravating. Fortunately I don't, I've only actually encountered that a few times.
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Post by ausador on Apr 21, 2009 1:02:02 GMT -5
Kinda silly, ban it how? Write a virus to retroactively remove it from about a billion computers? The whole thing is a complete waste of time. "If you outlaw Comic Sans, then only outlaws will use Comic Sans."  |
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Post by szaleniec on Apr 21, 2009 15:25:41 GMT -5
Speaking of which, the reason it's called Comic Sans is because it looks like comic book lettering. And it's perfectly good for that purpose (though picking something more original might be worth a few style points). On which note, Order of the Stick redeems the font for me. |
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Post by Angel on Apr 21, 2009 16:37:46 GMT -5
Our lecturers insist on using it for some of our assessment tools, I don't know why. The font, combined with the fact that our lecturers are too lazy to proofread their learning materials, makes it look like they've been designed by a 6-year-old. They even used if for some of our exam papers.
It's an informal font! Stop using it for formal documents!
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Post by Undecided on Apr 21, 2009 16:51:01 GMT -5
I now associate Comic Sans with web pages designed by young children, because when I was eleven I designed my class's web page. I dislike its use on the web with a passion now, since it seems highly overused, but now both the default fonts (sans serif and serif) are set to Junicode, which is a very pleasing font with all of the glyphs one needs to study Old English manuscripts.
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Post by szaleniec on Apr 21, 2009 19:57:59 GMT -5
Our lecturers insist on using it for some of our assessment tools, I don't know why. The font, combined with the fact that our lecturers are too lazy to proofread their learning materials, makes it look like they've been designed by a 6-year-old. They even used if for some of our exam papers. It's an informal font! Stop using it for formal documents! This reminds me of my A-level general studies paper. It was typeset in Comic Sans; I can only imagine that this was someone at the exam board trying to make a point that it's a complete joke. |
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Post by Yaezakura on Apr 24, 2009 6:07:55 GMT -5
Comic Sans only looks good in a very, very few select locations. Such as in comic strips, or PZ Myer's blog. I absolutely detest seeing it pretty much anywhere else.
Still, it's a person's choice to use it if they wish. You can't force good taste in fonts on people.
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Post by Star Cluster on Apr 24, 2009 22:43:17 GMT -5
And since when are fonts are supposed to be fun? How the hell is "boring" something that bothers you about a font? Yeah, I do graphics design as well and rarely use anything other than the simple basic fonts that you mention, plus a few others, unless the customer just wants something "special." But we also do embroidery and Comic Sans is chosen a lot by the customer and quite frankly, it is a nice embroidery font. It does look a lot better embroidered than it does printed. |
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Post by Aqualung on May 8, 2009 11:34:17 GMT -5
Oh. I used Comic Sans for my college senior recital program. Feel free to throw tomatoes at me. |
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