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Trajan, for better or worse, is the Movie Poster Font. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yI4shGV1EsM
Kirby Ferguson said it first, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t87QKdOJNv8
True!
Comic Mono
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#162Comic 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 think OpenBSD uses it on purpose in their slides so people won't take them seriously. Just a theory.
They use Comic Sans on their slides.
Now they can use Comic Mono on their xterm.
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#163Never thought I would ever see this during my lifetime. Really well done. Has the quirky feel of Comic Sans, but with the flavor of fixed space mono fonts.
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SNL did a funny skit on Papyrus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVhlJNJopOQ
And now it is gone: https://decider.com/2020/03/31/avatar-loses-papyrus-font-dis...
Shame. While the new design is not bad, it looks sort of overproduced, which goes against the spirit of the movie. The older one, whatever its source may be, had a sort of raw unpolished elegance to it that that fit in nicely with the movie's theme.
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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
Ending it with the word "papyrus" in Comic Sans was the most brilliant part.
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#166Not 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.
Unless that programmer is Rob Pike. (See the acme editor: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/98/Acme.png)
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#167Comic 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'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've heard that Comic Sans is accessible for dyslexics! But I don't have a source.
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#168I really don't get the fascination with Comic Sans. I've seen people set their system font on laptop or phone to it. How is it even readable? /end old man rant
I think some people just get tired of the stiffness and formality of "normal" fonts. Comic Sans just screams informality.
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Who haven’t experimented with proportional fonts for coding yet.
would you mind expanding on this?
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#170Comic 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'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 don't have any typographical basis to dislike Comic Sans. I just dislike it because it's ugly to the point of irritation for reasons I can't articulate. I suspect most people dislike it for reasons more similar to mine than because they have some principled basis for disliking it.