Defend the Indefensible: Comic Sans Serif

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??

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

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.

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/SF-qJ4dpP6s/hqdefault.jpg

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.

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

http://comicsansproject.tumblr.com/

Still hatin'

http://i.imgur.com/gdJu9Yd.jpg

I dint think this thread revive could modify, nice job pp.

omg

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

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.

i think i unironically like comic sans now, like i unironically like 'live laugh love' signs

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.