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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?
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?
SNL did a funny skit on Papyrus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVhlJNJopOQ
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Comic Sans is the Britney Spears of fonts. Overused/Overplayed. Legible/Catchy. Well crafted for its original purpose. Gets no respect. Probably deserves a little, but it makes you feel dirty to give it.
Not sure it’s Britney. Comic Sans has no ambition; is chosen despite itself; is hyper-ordinary. It’s the supermarket’s-own-brand ramen noodles of typefaces.
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?
Trajan, for better or worse, is the Movie Poster Font. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yI4shGV1EsM
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.
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I've always been quite irritated by the amount of disdain toward Comic Sans. Partly because I feel like this is such an easy target, and people who have just learned 2 or 3 things about typography are very keen on bashing Comic Sans to show off their newly acquired knowledge. Partly because, let's face it, it's not that bad. What it does, it does well, it's pretty legible, no glyph stands out from the general harmony…
i made reading cards for my kids in comic sans because it’s one of the few fonts with the normal lower case a and g
Edit: not that comic sans is a bad choice I’ve just been working on things related to this and found that other font
I once worked with a guy who wrote everything in Comic Sans - despite being counseled about it repeatedly. Fonts set a "tone" to your writing, and while Comic Sans if maybe fine for inviting people to in impromptu office pizza party, it represents yourself poorly in a professional environment. Here's some examples of how inappropriate some of his emails were (all real): - Contract negotiations - HR issues - Announcin…
I still think it shouldn't be possible to change the font for emails. 80-chars-wide monospaced whatever-your-terminal-offers is good enough.
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I've always been quite irritated by the amount of disdain toward Comic Sans. Partly because I feel like this is such an easy target, and people who have just learned 2 or 3 things about typography are very keen on bashing Comic Sans to show off their newly acquired knowledge. Partly because, let's face it, it's not that bad. What it does, it does well, it's pretty legible, no glyph stands out from the general harmony…
Comic Sans is the Britney Spears of fonts. Overused/Overplayed. Legible/Catchy. Well crafted for its original purpose. Gets no respect. Probably deserves a little, but it makes you feel dirty to give it.
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> 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
You probably have seen it but for anyone who hasn't, this SNL skit on Papyrus is brilliant: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jVhlJNJopOQ