*dies giggling* love it.
― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 14:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 14:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― edward o (edwardo), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 14:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― Leon C. (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 14:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 14:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― g-kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 14:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 14:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― edward o (edwardo), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 14:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim (Tim), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 14:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 14:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― edward o (edwardo), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 14:29 (eighteen years ago) link
I was about to come to this thread and say 'hey, Comic Sans has a [very limited] place, don't be the font fascists now'. But instead I am picturing the essays and crying.
― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 14:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 14:30 (eighteen years ago) link
there was a discussion about this before and apparently it's the best font for people with dyslexia to read!
― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 14:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 14:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 14:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― edward o (edwardo), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 14:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 14:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 14:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 14:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 14:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 14:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― g-kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 14:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― Zazas Zazas Nasatanada Katzenellenbogen by the Sea (noodle vague), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 14:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― g-kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 14:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 14:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― g-kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 14:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 14:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 14:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 15:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 15:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Draw Tipsy, ya hack. (dave225.3), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 15:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 15:19 (eighteen years ago) link
Though I'm not 100% sure of this one, it still works.
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 15:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― Colin Hunt, Tuesday, 9 August 2005 15:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 15:22 (eighteen years ago) link
Comic Sans: Official Typeface Choice of Your Aunts
― kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 18:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 18:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― Leon C. (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 18:26 (eighteen years ago) link
or your?
― kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 18:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 18:31 (eighteen years ago) link
There was an edition of Crearive Review last year where they got designers to use Comic Sans to reclaim it - they mostly failed.
― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 18:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― Lingbertt, Tuesday, 9 August 2005 18:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 18:41 (eighteen years ago) link
(the other being the annoying Office paperclip/cat/dog/whatever)
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 18:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 18:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― matlewis (matlewis), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 19:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 19:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 19:16 (eighteen years ago) link
agree with whiney tbh although we're both in the vortex of metasuck now
― acoleuthic, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 14:53 (thirteen years ago) link
here, chris. I made this for u.
http://img52.imageshack.us/img52/4791/wgas.jpg
― Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 15:07 (thirteen years ago) link
lol
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 2 February 2011 15:14 (thirteen years ago) link
<3
― odd taran wild'n gang killam all (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 2 February 2011 15:16 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.kadavy.net/blog/posts/why-you-hate-comic-sans/
― The all-jazz interpreter (Eazy), Monday, 7 March 2011 15:14 (thirteen years ago) link
chief exec of my organisation sent an email in comic sans the other day. guy earns > £100,00 p.a.
― tending tropics (jim in glasgow), Sunday, 20 March 2011 00:04 (thirteen years ago) link
lol £100,000 even
OK, someone just told me about this:
Search "helvetica" in Google.
― jaymc, Friday, 1 April 2011 14:34 (thirteen years ago) link
arrghh! It's everywhere!
― Lee626, Friday, 1 April 2011 14:36 (thirteen years ago) link
he, he, helvetica
― tangelo amour (elmo argonaut), Friday, 1 April 2011 14:37 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm bummed to learn the Google thing was just an April Fool's joke
― Lee626, Wednesday, 6 April 2011 23:36 (thirteen years ago) link
i am studying an engineering degree. my college papers get handed out IN THIS FUX0RING FONT
also i called in sick this morning to slack on ilx all day.
― jumpskins, Thursday, 7 April 2011 09:39 (thirteen years ago) link
it's kind of fun to say "comique sans" in an exaggerated accent. that is my one and only defense
― bernard snowy, Thursday, 7 April 2011 10:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Ouch! This also makes me think of how many student hand in papers in Comic Sans (though there are some things I'm just better off not knowing).
― EDB, Thursday, 7 April 2011 19:59 (thirteen years ago) link
a couple wks ago i was watching one of those disturbing shows on discovery id. anyhow at one point they are showing a homicide detective standing in front of a filing cabinet and opening up a folder, and the folder says said "<something i can't remember> HOMICIDES 1997" or whatever. in comic sans.
the f...
― dell (del), Monday, 9 January 2012 17:36 (twelve years ago) link
http://lh3.ggpht.com/_IMGjq3rRTeg/TBl9Ki8nN9I/AAAAAAAAEEg/au2IgSxCtt8/Comic%20Sans%20Mofo.png
― hooked on ebonics (Pillbox), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 03:51 (twelve years ago) link
rofl
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rxgIZieo9mQ/T_QwijARdgI/AAAAAAAAAPE/BRKWK0UlWMY/s1600/higgscomicsans.jpg
― PSOD (Ste), Wednesday, 4 July 2012 12:02 (eleven years ago) link
Can it possibly be used "ironically"?
― Tom Crucifictorious (Leee), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 18:30 (eleven years ago) link
after just looking at a bunch of lol-memes I realized that few fonts are more effective at making something less funny than Impact
― signed, J.P. Morgan CEO (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 18 December 2013 22:12 (ten years ago) link
love it or leave it witchey warlock
― Brian Eno's Mother (Latham Green), Friday, 14 February 2014 21:54 (ten years ago) link
http://comicneue.com/
― polyphonic, Monday, 7 April 2014 18:17 (ten years ago) link
...not bad?
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 7 April 2014 20:05 (ten years ago) link
I like the concept of taking something that is bad but popular and making it less bad. And I think he accomplishes that pretty well for the most part. Is there a way to improve Papyrus or other similarly awful fonts? Or is the essence of it too shitty to be salvaged?
I dunno, I guess this is the kind of dumb shit I like to think about.
― polyphonic, Monday, 7 April 2014 20:50 (ten years ago) link
to me, comic neue is charles schulz lettering from 1956 and comic sans is charles schulz lettering from 1999
― I made a grave mistake with my balloon at the end (forksclovetofu), Monday, 7 April 2014 20:57 (ten years ago) link
hating comic sans is the liking bacon of boring type designers
― Mordy , Monday, 7 April 2014 20:59 (ten years ago) link
I have no idea why people hate comic sans and papyrus. I've even heard people hate Arial! Don't know what you have to do to get to that point.
― take a piece of mr. baxter's hand (how's life), Monday, 7 April 2014 21:46 (ten years ago) link
discovered this the other night at a friend's place.
http://s8.postimg.org/qhddaxfj9/new_makers_mark_bourbon_bottle_42_ABV_768x1024.png
― Treeship, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 02:06 (nine years ago) link
some say it is one of the better typefaces for people with dyslexia to read and understand
― King Clone (Crabbits), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 02:34 (nine years ago) link
ok mentioned before but ... people with dyslexia deserve to read labels based on u.s. regulation of spirit branding??
― King Clone (Crabbits), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 02:36 (nine years ago) link
Dyslexic.com weigns in: " Some dyslexic people find that Comic Sans is one of the more readable of the commonly-available Windows fonts, and we have used it on this web site in the past. Others find it too bold, too childish or too informal."
http://www.dyslexic.com/fonts
― King Clone (Crabbits), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 02:37 (nine years ago) link
Yesterday a company we've been dealing with at work sent its first official status report on a 12-week project they're doing for us. The headlines were in Comic Sans and the body was in a font similar to this:
http://schoolfonts.com/printnew/_ZWriting.gif
They're a fairly niche company, but are highly recognized within our industry as basically the only people who do what we need them to do. Still, we're going to have words with them about the fonts.
― how's life, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 10:47 (nine years ago) link
http://i.ytimg.com/vi/SF-qJ4dpP6s/hqdefault.jpg
― Treeship, Tuesday, 24 May 2016 04:20 (eight years ago) link
I have no idea why people hate comic sans and papyrus.
My wife likes papyrus. I have informed her that some people hate it. She was also puzzled as to why this would be so.
I suspect that it is too often associated with people who think crystals are particularly good rocks for healing stuff that needs to be healed. And those who like to talk about angels as if they were the Good Witch from the 1939 Wizard of Oz movie.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Tuesday, 24 May 2016 05:08 (eight years ago) link
i think the hatred for these fonts has to do with how often they are used. they are kind of goofy and poorly designed to begin with and seem to be used whenever people want to add a bit of pizzazz to lame documents. they just connote laziness and dumbness.
comic sans has sort of taken on a life of its own though. it's so widely reviled that it's become a widely acknowledged visual shorthand for unseriousness, which is kind of a weird thing. typography used to be one of those elements of graphic design that average people didn't attend to very much.
https://andrewbusch.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/comic-sans-tombstone.jpg
― Treeship, Tuesday, 24 May 2016 05:26 (eight years ago) link
http://comicsansproject.tumblr.com/
― Treeship, Tuesday, 24 May 2016 05:35 (eight years ago) link
Still hatin'
http://i.imgur.com/gdJu9Yd.jpg
― pplains, Saturday, 8 October 2016 02:51 (seven years ago) link
I dint think this thread revive could modify, nice job pp.
― wishy washy hippy variety hour (Hunt3r), Saturday, 8 October 2016 04:28 (seven years ago) link
omg
― qualx, Saturday, 8 October 2016 05:19 (seven years ago) link
what a fun night we're going to have bradley
me [m, 37] started dating a great/funny/smart girl [f, 33] but the font she uses on her smartphone is comic sans
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 8 October 2016 14:03 (seven years ago) link
Sat here in Emergency, w Amber and her twisted ankle.
there is a similar sign to the just above. She remarked as we came in 'oo, It'll be proper A&E not children's'
I said that children's would probably be quicker.
anyway, I remembered the sign, we lagged.
ok, back to waaiting.
― Mark G, Sunday, 9 October 2016 19:17 (seven years ago) link
i think i unironically like comic sans now, like i unironically like 'live laugh love' signs
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Monday, 7 March 2022 22:36 (two years ago) link
As a teacher, I find comic sans fairly useful. I use it sparingly, but it comes in handy to make slides look more kid-friendly, or to suggest the idea of handwriting without actually using a handwriting font that kids can't read. Like, if I'm telling them to write something on a notecard, I might give them an example sentence in comic sans to emphasize this is the part that you write.
― Lily Dale, Monday, 7 March 2022 22:50 (two years ago) link