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Re: Comic Mono

#61

Post by rvense »

neolog wrote: post #57
nerdponx wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I truly don't understand why. Are people just that sick of Times New Roman and Calibri? It's not like I especially hate Comic Sans, but it seems so wildly inappropriate for all of the uses mentioned above.

> so wildly inappropriate Comic Sans is a nice handwriting-style font. Isn't it just the name that makes people think it's inappropriate?

For a long time I thought it was called "Comic" because of the hilarious faces font snobs pull when you show it to them, but apparently it's because it was inspired by the text in comic books.

I think it's sort of transcended all that, though. It's now the legendary Comic Sans from the land beyond taste, more meme than font.

Re: Comic Mono

#62

Post by forgotmypw17 »

rvense wrote: post #61
neolog wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> so wildly inappropriate Comic Sans is a nice handwriting-style font. Isn't it just the name that makes people think it's inappropriate?

For a long time I thought it was called "Comic" because of the hilarious faces font snobs pull when you show it to them, but apparently it's because it was inspired by the text in comic books. I think it's sort of transcended all that, though. It's now the legendary Comic Sans from the land beyond taste, more meme than font.

I think it is called that after Comic Chat, where it was featured.

Re: Comic Mono

#63

Post by mikehollinger »

nerdponx wrote: post #26
cs702 wrote: post #24

Comic Sans and its descendants are... indestructible . No matter how much some font designers complain about it, and how often they criticize it, Comic Sans keeps coming back, like the Terminator: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_Sans#Reception_and_use_i... Among the most incongruous uses of Comic Sans I've seen, a few stand out: * A plaque on a large statue of a historical figure in a public space: https://www.bi…

I truly don't understand why. Are people just that sick of Times New Roman and Calibri? It's not like I especially hate Comic Sans, but it seems so wildly inappropriate for all of the uses mentioned above.

> inappropriate for all the uses mentioned above...

I'll raise you. See Papyrus. [1] Who needs "'I'd rather be golfing' on a t-shirt in Papyrus, of all fonts?

[1] https://www.instagram.com/papyrus_forever/?hl=en

Re: Comic Mono

#66

Post by pessimizer »

adrianmonk wrote: post #17

Not really a criticism and just an observation, but you can tell this page was written by a programmer because the section called "What does it look like?" is about what the code looks like, not the font itself. I realize the page's text is in the font, but often there's a sample that shows what all the common characters look like and in different variations (like regular and bold). Which is what I expected when I re…

Monospaced fonts are for programmers.

Re: Comic Mono

#67

Post by fwip »

sitkack wrote: post #54
fwip wrote: post #15

I use Comic Code - not free, but pretty reasonably priced. http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/tabular-type-foundry/comic-code I find that it is pretty readable and makes coding feel less serious - it helps me get into a looser "try it and see if it works" mentality. Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/x1b1gac.png

I really hope you close the loop on this and put emojis in your comments and error messages. No joke.

I should :)

Re: Comic Mono

#68

Post by egypturnash »

forgotmypw17 wrote: post #62
rvense wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For a long time I thought it was called "Comic" because of the hilarious faces font snobs pull when you show it to them, but apparently it's because it was inspired by the text in comic books. I think it's sort of transcended all that, though. It's now the legendary Comic Sans from the land beyond taste, more meme than font.

I think it is called that after Comic Chat, where it was featured.

Straight from the horse's mouth: http://www.connare.com/whycomic.htm

Originally designed for Microsoft Bob, missed that deadline, came out in the Win95 Plus Pack.

The working name was "Comic Book". Probably because it is based on multiple comic books, primarily The Dark Knight Returns. I've also seen Watchmen mentioned in other interviews as a primary source for the shapes though he doesn't mention it in his page on the font.

Re: Comic Mono

#69

Post by juangacovas »

cs702 wrote: post #24

Comic Sans and its descendants are... indestructible . No matter how much some font designers complain about it, and how often they criticize it, Comic Sans keeps coming back, like the Terminator: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_Sans#Reception_and_use_i... Among the most incongruous uses of Comic Sans I've seen, a few stand out: * A plaque on a large statue of a historical figure in a public space: https://www.bi…

You can found it also in a tetrabrik soup brand from Spain: https://www.google.com/search?q=caldos+aneto&sxsrf=ALeKk02rt...

Re: Comic Mono

#70

Post by itronitron »

Bakary wrote: post #2

The end result is a lot more pleasant than I expected it to be before clicking. Other than Helvetica and maybe Times New Roman/Calibri, how many other fonts have had a lasting influence on culture?

At some point in the future Eurostile will have had a lasting influence on culture.

>> https://typesetinthefuture.com/2014/11/29/fontspots-eurostil...

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