Defend the Indefensible: Comic Sans Serif

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nothing wrong with larabie, he's just making kerazy fonts people like, don't read the thread if you don't want to be offended etc

Tracer Hand, Monday, 5 May 2008 19:00 (sixteen years ago) link

what's a "single bowl a"?

The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Monday, 5 May 2008 19:07 (sixteen years ago) link

xpost You realize I'm not actually suggesting that he be curb-stomped, right?

kenan, Monday, 5 May 2008 19:08 (sixteen years ago) link

no?

Tracer Hand, Monday, 5 May 2008 19:09 (sixteen years ago) link

AGAIN with the joeks, kenan!

Abbott, Monday, 5 May 2008 19:09 (sixteen years ago) link

Papyrus (ALWAYS used for shit like below)

Part of the reason why I never bothered watching Firefly/Serenity was that it used that Papyrus font.

Elvis Telecom, Monday, 5 May 2008 19:18 (sixteen years ago) link

oh man we should have a bitch-about-bad-tv-show-logos thread

El Tomboto, Monday, 5 May 2008 19:25 (sixteen years ago) link

for the most hilariously inappropriate use of comic sans, allow me to nominate...

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1184/785715203_95d8db5499.jpg

this providence local gay / leather bar

elmo argonaut, Monday, 5 May 2008 19:28 (sixteen years ago) link

sanitized for your protection

and what, Monday, 5 May 2008 19:28 (sixteen years ago) link

oh man we should have a bitch-about-bad-tv-show-logos thread

I dunno... it might be harder to find good ones to praise.

kenan, Monday, 5 May 2008 19:31 (sixteen years ago) link

one year passes...

comic sans walks into a bar and the bartender says "we don't serve your type here"

iiiijjjj, Wednesday, 24 March 2010 00:19 (fourteen years ago) link

Heh I'd be a terrible teacher cos I'd cry over all the essays for being shit grammar and suchlike.

conrad, Wednesday, 24 March 2010 00:46 (fourteen years ago) link

the chancellor of my school sent out an email in comic sans today

J0rdan S., Wednesday, 24 March 2010 00:52 (fourteen years ago) link

school chancellor otm

the most sacred couple in Christendom (J0hn D.), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 01:14 (fourteen years ago) link

one of my students turned in her midterm in comic sans

i took off 0 pts for this

figgy pudding (La Lechera), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 01:16 (fourteen years ago) link

school chancellor otm

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

LiveJournal (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 01:16 (fourteen years ago) link

louis,

the most sacred couple in Christendom (J0hn D.), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 01:20 (fourteen years ago) link

now we have an album title too

iatee, Wednesday, 24 March 2010 01:21 (fourteen years ago) link

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

the most sacred couple in Christendom (J0hn D.), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 01:31 (fourteen years ago) link

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

Mr. Que, Wednesday, 24 March 2010 01:32 (fourteen years ago) link

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

LiveJournal (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 01:33 (fourteen years ago) link

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

Mr. Que, Wednesday, 24 March 2010 01:34 (fourteen years ago) link

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

J0rdan S., Wednesday, 24 March 2010 01:45 (fourteen years ago) link

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

LiveJournal (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 01:47 (fourteen years ago) link

my biological father sends his emails in comic sans

mookieproof, Wednesday, 24 March 2010 02:55 (fourteen years ago) link

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.

the jaws of impermanence and soul death (reddening), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 04:03 (fourteen years ago) link

three months pass...

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

kkvgz, Friday, 9 July 2010 20:01 (thirteen years ago) link

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

ghee hee hee (La Lechera), Friday, 9 July 2010 20:03 (thirteen years ago) link

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

ô_o (Nicole), Friday, 9 July 2010 20:17 (thirteen years ago) link

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 :(

ghee hee hee (La Lechera), Friday, 9 July 2010 20:24 (thirteen years ago) link

six months pass...

Ugly fonts may aid comprehension

Alba, Sunday, 16 January 2011 13:03 (thirteen years ago) link

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.

kkvgz, Sunday, 16 January 2011 15:59 (thirteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Thank God for Mississippi

Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 14:43 (thirteen years ago) link

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

odd taran wild'n gang killam all (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 2 February 2011 14:46 (thirteen years ago) link

The "wolf band" joke of typography dilettantes

odd taran wild'n gang killam all (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 2 February 2011 14:47 (thirteen 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

one month passes...

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

tending tropics (jim in glasgow), Sunday, 20 March 2011 00:04 (thirteen years ago) link

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


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