Defend the Indefensible: Comic Sans Serif

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My anus?

or your?

― kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 18:29 (eighteen years ago) link

I shit better fonts than Comic Sans.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 18:31 (eighteen years ago) link

That Factory parody is incredible and is going straight onto my desktop at work!

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

http://wizardishungry.com/no/nickbuzz.jpg

― Lingbertt, Tuesday, 9 August 2005 18:40 (eighteen years ago) link

ROCK ON, BRAH

― kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 18:41 (eighteen years ago) link

I am impressed that Comic Sans was originally created for inclusion in Microsoft Bob. That's *2* horrible things that that program has left us with.

(the other being the annoying Office paperclip/cat/dog/whatever)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 18:46 (eighteen years ago) link

(I mean, *intended* for inclusion with Bob - apparently it never actually was used in that)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 18:48 (eighteen years ago) link

http://us.ent4.yimg.com/tv.yahoo.com/images/he/photo/tv_pix/nbc/saturday_night_live/horatio_sanz/newsnl1.jpg

― matlewis (matlewis), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 19:06 (eighteen years ago) link

So is Comic Avec Serif okay, then?

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 19:09 (eighteen years ago) link

god, that guy did trebuchet too? what a crap legacy.

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 19:16 (eighteen years ago) link

Comic Sans MS: the font of choice for badly designed web pages. (What would its Mac equivalent be, I wonder?)

― M. V. (M.V.), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 19:32 (eighteen years ago) link

Chicago.

Oh, snap!

― already disheveled hair projection (wetmink), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 19:33 (eighteen years ago) link

That Factory parody is incredible and is going straight onto my desktop at work!

Amen!

― Ian Riese-Moraine: a casualty of social estrangement. (Eastern Mantra), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 19:50 (eighteen years ago) link

i just stopped someone using comic sans serif on a document that would have gone to hundreds of people by writing 'oh dear god anything but comic sans serif as the font!' and he said he kind of liked it, and i explained how bad it is and about this thread and how the creator apologises for it, and he's now changed it. hurrah.

― colette (a2lette), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 15:17 (eighteen years ago) link

algerian is a thousand times worse

― s/c (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 15:19 (eighteen years ago) link

sometimes i really hate the advent of the personal computer for its role in THE MURDER OF TYPE DESIGN.

― s/c (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 15:26 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't think I've ever used comic sans serif

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 15:28 (eighteen years ago) link

Tim has slandered me above.

Waging war on comic sans at work is one of the most satisying parts of my job. It's also one of the least successful.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 15:31 (eighteen years ago) link

there isn't actually the word "serif" in its name btw! (it's just comic sans)

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 15:33 (eighteen years ago) link

algerian is a thousand times worse

AGREED!!

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 15:35 (eighteen years ago) link

Algerian is horrible because it looks kind of fancy but also kind of wacky, and so everyone uses it when they want an "interesting-looking" font.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 15:36 (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.

yes, although I like what one guy did with the lower case 't', making it a tombstone type thing in pictorial form.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 15:39 (eighteen years ago) link

algerian just always looks so tacky. instant loss of respect for anyone who uses it.

― s/c (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 15:40 (eighteen years ago) link

ya know, people rag on arial because it's a "cheap helvetica knockoff" (and it is), but honestly there's nothing really egregious about it and these days it's a breath of fresh air.

― s/c (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 15:43 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm always meaning to delete all serifed fonts from my system bar Times, Georgia and Palatino. Most of the sans ones can go too. Even as a designer I think I might only need 20 proper font sets, though I really ought to try creating my own sometime.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 15:43 (eighteen years ago) link

There's a font that I see on all sorts of "KIDS CORNER!" types of things, like for instance a brochure for children's events at a museum. I think this is it, or close:

http://www.momscorner4kids.com/fonts/images/whimsy.gif

I hate it so much.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 15:45 (eighteen years ago) link

My local butcher's home page (it's the pic on the right). Please note that not only is the website in Comic Sans, but SO IS THE FUCKING SHOP SIGN.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 15:48 (eighteen years ago) link

store owners should NOT be allowed to make their own signs. unless they're, y'know, print shops or something.

― s/c (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 15:59 (eighteen years ago) link

http://us.ent4.yimg.com/tv.yahoo.com/images/he/photo/tv_pix/nbc/saturday_night_live/horatio_sanz/newsnl1.jpg

This should be titled "Sans Comedy".

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 16:06 (eighteen years ago) link

that sign was probably made from a print shop, s/c..

hehe the butcher's is called "snoggy's"

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 16:08 (eighteen years ago) link

http://image4.myfonts.com/textimage/90/9018adc33c22479fc8594643bf2db8f4.png

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 16:16 (eighteen years ago) link

pleasant plains made me roffle.

― s/c (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 16:22 (eighteen years ago) link

Comic Snas is used by who like work training courses, organising fun and excessive exclamation marks. They have a deep vacuum of self-hatred where the rest of us have souls and the danger in telling them about the evilness of Comic Sans is that they realise it's a proxy for them and they may end up topping themselves as their empire of forced fun collapses and they realise that everyone hates them. IMO.

AKA the Colin Hunt of fonts.

― Dave B (daveb), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 16:27 (eighteen years ago) link

here's a font that I see on all sorts of "KIDS CORNER!" types of things, like for instance a brochure for children's events at a museum. I think this is it, or close:

That's look like the font for the "Weird N.J." logo

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 16:28 (eighteen years ago) link

here's a font that I see on all sorts of "KIDS CORNER!" types of things, like for instance a brochure for children's events at a museum. I think this is it, or close:

That looks like the font for the "Weird N.J." logo

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 16:28 (eighteen years ago) link

yes! i was wondering what it reminded me of.

― s/c (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 16:32 (eighteen years ago) link

Alba OTM. Sand is far worse than Comic Sans. Despite these more recent type atrocities my deepest and longest hatred is still reserved for Zapf Chancery.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 16:33 (eighteen years ago) link

Is there an equivalently odious font that denotes gravitas in the way CS does japery?

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 16:44 (eighteen years ago) link

I think that kiddy font is Ren'n'Stimpy (though it may have another name).

― M. V. (M.V.), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 17:49 (eighteen years ago) link

Yes, Elvis and JBR: that is EXACTLY it.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 17:51 (eighteen years ago) link

Tom - Times News Roman - beloved of University Committee Secretaries everywhere.

― Dave B (daveb), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 20:50 (eighteen years ago) link

I edit a satirical quarterly and for some of the the display ads fonts can't be dorky enough. Comic Sans is great, but I wish I had something even worse, even more writing-from-the-heart-ish. Contra-dancing wife-swapper club fonts.

― Beth Parker, Tuesday, 16 August 2005 21:11 (eighteen years ago) link

Who likes/dislikes Action Jackson, AdLib, Akbar, Andy, augie, Beeknees, Curlz, Farkas, Gigi, Jokerman, Planet Benson, Ravie, Treefrog?

― M. V. (M.V.), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 23:10 (eighteen years ago) link

Heartfelft wife-swapper clubs?

― M. V. (M.V.), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 23:12 (eighteen years ago) link

Heartfelt wife-swapper clubs?

― M. V. (M.V.), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 23:12 (eighteen years ago) link

AdLib, Beesknees, Curlz, Gigi, Ravie and Treefrog I am familiar with. They all suck. The latter I MIGHT use though as it's got a tolerable scribbly look iirc.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 23:16 (eighteen years ago) link

The creator of comic sans defends himself.

-- Jerry the Nipper (jerrythenippe...), August 9th, 2005 1:30 AM.:

"There was a need for these ‘fun’ fonts at Microsoft at the time."
http://www.connare.com/creative.GIF

― Sasha (sgh), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 01:34 (eighteen years ago) link

Action Jackson, AdLib, Akbar, Andy, augie, Beeknees, Curlz, Farkas, Gigi, Jokerman, Planet Benson, Ravie, Treefrog
The only one I know from that list is Curlz, which is good and dopey but kind of unreadable. I'm looking for that font that lives at the intersection of kindergarten and tofu.
I'll seek out those other bad ones. Thanks.

― Beth Parker, Wednesday, 17 August 2005 01:40 (eighteen years ago) link

It's sorta stodgy for a "fun" font, no? Looks more like print from a first grade handwriting exercise book than something from a comic strip.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 01:43 (eighteen years ago) link

No wonder the kids all want to bludgeon their guidance counselor

― Beth Parker, Wednesday, 17 August 2005 01:49 (eighteen years ago) link

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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

five years pass...

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

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