AKA the Colin Hunt of fonts.
― Dave B (daveb), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 16:27 (eighteen years ago) link
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
That looks like the font for the "Weird N.J." logo
― s/c (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 16:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 16:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 16:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― M. V. (M.V.), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 17:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 17:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dave B (daveb), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 20:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― Beth Parker, Tuesday, 16 August 2005 21:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― M. V. (M.V.), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 23:10 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 23:16 (eighteen years ago) link
-- 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
― Beth Parker, Wednesday, 17 August 2005 01:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 01:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― Beth Parker, Wednesday, 17 August 2005 01:49 (eighteen years ago) link
I read this as GIGLI
― I'm Hi, Jared Fogle (ex machina), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 01:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― Beth Parker, Wednesday, 17 August 2005 01:59 (eighteen years ago) link
Isn't Treefrog just "Ralph Steadman wrote this"? NB I have never heard of any of these before, I'm just going on what I see on http://www.identifont.com
Ironically(?), I have only seen Algerian used in Kebab shops.
Despite these more recent type atrocities my deepest and longest hatred is still reserved for Zapf Chancery.
?? What's so bad about it?
http://www.identifont.com/samples/adobe/ZapfChancery.gif
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 22 August 2005 11:43 (eighteen years ago) link
(Comic, Times, Garamond, etc., are typefaces; a font is traditionally the set of characters in a given typeface at a given size and weight/style--so Palatino is a typeface and Palatino 10 bold, or whatever, is a font.)
I guess the answer to my question is "no."
― The Mad Puffin (The Mad Puffin), Monday, 22 August 2005 13:07 (eighteen years ago) link
It's kinda why I stayed in radio.
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 22 August 2005 15:41 (eighteen years ago) link
Out of the old Mac system fonts it was sort of the default "classy" font and it was inappropriately overused in the same way that comic sans is now. You have to picture it printed by a dot matrix printer for the full effect.
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Monday, 22 August 2005 15:47 (eighteen years ago) link
I just had a student come in to the library asking questions about using apa format in research papers, so I asked to look at the paper they were writing and it was in comic sans serif. I stood there in disbelief for a minute or two, I'm lucky I didn't have a psychotic break with reality.
― O'so Krispie (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 16:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― James Ward (jamesmichaelward), Thursday, 9 February 2006 11:13 (eighteen years ago) link
Tiresias and Arial Narrow for everyone else.
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 9 February 2006 11:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mr Jones (Mr Jones), Thursday, 9 February 2006 12:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mr Jones (Mr Jones), Thursday, 9 February 2006 12:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― melton mowbray (adr), Thursday, 9 February 2006 12:08 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Drooone, Friday, 23 March 2007 05:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 23 March 2007 05:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Friday, 23 March 2007 05:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― Drooone, Friday, 23 March 2007 05:55 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.earlyblues.com/essay_one_story.htm
― Curt1s Stephens, Friday, 29 June 2007 19:35 (sixteen years ago) link
i can't read that.
― andrew m., Friday, 29 June 2007 19:58 (sixteen years ago) link
http://m.assetbar.com/achewood/autaux?b=M%5ea11f09b8576e606bcb5038dfdb92fb821&u=http%3A%2F%2Fachewood.com%2Fcomic.php%3Fdate%3D07052007
― Slumpman, Thursday, 5 July 2007 21:15 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't share the Comic Sans hate.
after all, there are far worse fonts around. Do you ever bring up the dropdwon list on Word and think "why on earth did they include those? Can I think of a reason for EVER EVER using at least half of these gross fonts??? Answer: No!"
Bahaus 93, Bernard MT Condensed, Broadway, Forte, Rcokwell Condensed - I'm talkin' 'bout YOU!
Antique Olive looks ok, but what a gross name! I was looking for spare change down the back of my sofa and I found....
― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 6 July 2007 13:26 (sixteen years ago) link
waiting for the iPone-inspired Marker Felt hate
― Alan, Friday, 6 July 2007 13:43 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't get the hatred either. :-(
― nathalie, Friday, 6 July 2007 13:49 (sixteen years ago) link
If you have to ask...
― kenan, Friday, 6 July 2007 13:50 (sixteen years ago) link
No, no, Kenan, keep your clothes on.
Oh wait... you're talking about something else.
― nathalie, Friday, 6 July 2007 13:51 (sixteen years ago) link
har har
― kenan, Friday, 6 July 2007 13:53 (sixteen years ago) link
I remember in an early Dilbert strip the Pointy Haired Boss urged his staff to use sans-serif fonts in faxes coz they go through the fax machine quicker and don't cost so much to send.
Maybe the use of the word 'comic' was a bit of a faux pas. Rename this font!
Have to say that sans serif fonts look friendlier than serif ones in the same way that lower case looks friendlier than BLOCK CAPITALS. Witness the changes in the health warnings on cigarrette packets. Years ago the warnings were HM GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH warnings in BLOCK CAPITALS and something resembling Times New Roman like some elderly relative was telling you the harm of smoking with a wagging finger whereas now the warnings are in lower case sans serif like a friend saying "Hey mate, you do realise the harm those things are doing to you, don't you?"
― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 6 July 2007 13:56 (sixteen years ago) link
Yes, but comic sans isn't just friendly, it's Special Olympics friendly.
― kenan, Friday, 6 July 2007 13:58 (sixteen years ago) link
While moving I found an ancient litmag from the dawn of time back when I was in high school, a huge chunk of the ridiculous poetry contained therein is printed in COMIC SANS.
― nickalicious, Thursday, 13 September 2007 08:08 (sixteen years ago) link
Rockwell Condensed is OK
― blueski, Thursday, 13 September 2007 10:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, I was gonna say. It's got nothing on the pitch-perfect MODERNITY! of plain Rockwell, but it's pretty inoffensive and probably useful for certain purposes. Comic Sans is universally awful and a dead giveaway that whatever's written in it isn't worth reading anyway.
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 23 September 2007 04:02 (sixteen years ago) link
we need a 'your litmag shame' thread.
― milo z, Sunday, 23 September 2007 04:06 (sixteen years ago) link