Defend the Indefensible: Comic Sans Serif

one of my students turned in her midterm in comic sans

i took off 0 pts for this

school chancellor otm

well we all know what font someone's next album-cover will be rendered in

louis,

now we have an album title too

I wanna give you guys shit for this kinda thing but am afraid you would take it in the wrong spirit

comic sans: when you really want to convey "I'm serious" to an entire student body

tbh I'm still waiting for my savage beatdown :(

I recently overlooked the fact that an entire Myspace band bio was written in CS until a friend was all 'WTF LOL CS' - it made me feel odd

you made up for it by the bloodletting the cat joke--good work everyone on that thread

i had to turn a paper in on deadline on friday in blue ink

mr que you may bloodlet the cat - it is your choice - but I merely spake of letting one's own blood onto the cat, a far more civil act

my biological father sends his emails in comic sans

i once had an instructor write me a letter of recommendation in Comic Sans. it said a lot of very nice things but i was a bit nervous about sending it out.

upthread someone mentioned Comic Sans is ideal for dyslexics because of its "readability" -- this is true apparently! it's the default font on the transcriber software i use at work.

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

hahaha that has been posted ALL OVER facebook today from my NE OH friends. it's hilarious. also contains egregious quotation mark mistakes.

"who" we are for example

This letter is so perfect. All caps, quotation mark hell AND comic sans serif.

people are really feelin' it in akron/cleveland, though
yet another indignity for the people of NE OH: they respond positively to the use of comic sans :(

Ugly fonts may aid comprehension

Oh man, this week at my work I came across an extensive history of our email correspondence with a prominent computer engineer, all of whose emails were in comic sans.

Thank God for Mississippi

at this point, i think it should be "Defend the Indefensible: Talking about Comic Sans"

The "wolf band" joke of typography dilettantes

agree with whiney tbh although we're both in the vortex of metasuck now

here, chris. I made this for u.

http://img52.imageshack.us/img52/4791/wgas.jpg

lol

<3

http://www.kadavy.net/blog/posts/why-you-hate-comic-sans/

chief exec of my organisation sent an email in comic sans the other day. guy earns > £100,00 p.a.

lol £100,000 even

OK, someone just told me about this:

Search "helvetica" in Google.

arrghh! It's everywhere!

he, he, helvetica

I'm bummed to learn the Google thing was just an April Fool's joke

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.

it's kind of fun to say "comique sans" in an exaggerated accent. that is my one and only defense

i am studying an engineering degree. my college papers get handed out IN THIS FUX0RING FONT

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).

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...

http://lh3.ggpht.com/_IMGjq3rRTeg/TBl9Ki8nN9I/AAAAAAAAEEg/au2IgSxCtt8/Comic%20Sans%20Mofo.png

rofl

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rxgIZieo9mQ/T_QwijARdgI/AAAAAAAAAPE/BRKWK0UlWMY/s1600/higgscomicsans.jpg

Can it possibly be used "ironically"?

after just looking at a bunch of lol-memes I realized that few fonts are more effective at making something less funny than Impact

love it or leave it witchey warlock

http://comicneue.com/

...not bad?

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.

to me, comic neue is charles schulz lettering from 1956 and comic sans is charles schulz lettering from 1999

hating comic sans is the liking bacon of boring type designers

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.

discovered this the other night at a friend's place.

http://s8.postimg.org/qhddaxfj9/new_makers_mark_bourbon_bottle_42_ABV_768x1024.png

some say it is one of the better typefaces for people with dyslexia to read and understand

ok mentioned before but ... people with dyslexia deserve to read labels based on u.s. regulation of spirit branding??