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Re: Comic Mono

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Post by bonzini »

aaronharnly wrote: post #132
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…

Don’t forget: the CERN presentation announcing the discovery of the Higgs Boson: https://blog.scottlogic.com/2012/07/05/the-higgs-boson-comic...

And a plaque in front of a church in Seregno, Italy: https://reddit.com/r/italy/comments/2rawy3/seregno_mb_dove_i...

Re: Comic Mono

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Post by africanboy »

Biganon wrote: post #86
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'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 am not a font designer, but I don't like Comic Sans for the same reason I don't like Las Vegas architecture that resembles ancient Rome or Egypt, even though I am not an architect.

Maybe it's because they're both tacky?

Re: Comic Mono

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Post by ballenf »

africanboy wrote: post #182
Biganon wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 am not a font designer, but I don't like Comic Sans for the same reason I don't like Las Vegas architecture that resembles ancient Rome or Egypt, even though I am not an architect. Maybe it's because they're both tacky?

Vegas is just a big adult theme park. The giant pirate ship is not seaworthy.

Re: Comic Mono

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Post by sverhagen »

jehlakj wrote: post #110
Kaibeezy wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

And I’m sure those ramen sell well. Fact is, not many people care. If you have a product that doesn’t target designers or the like, does it really matter?

Surely there must be some value is graphic design? Or esthetics?

Re: Comic Mono

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Post by narag »

strenholme wrote: post #159

In terms of mono fonts that look like Comic Sans, I am surprised no one has mentioned Fantasque Sans Mono: https://github.com/belluzj/fantasque-sans While not Comic Sans, another Microsoft Web Core font which has been reasonably cloned is Trebuchet MS. Fira is, to my eyes, an open source font which looks similar to Trebuchet MS, and there is the very popular monospace variant Fira Code: https://v-fonts.com/fonts/fira…

Thank you. The font mentioned in the article doesn't support Spanish characters, so it's useless to me.

Re: Comic Mono

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Post by TuringTest »

dheera wrote: post #180
Biganon wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 just hate all handwritten fonts for passages of text because a single character looks the same every time it appears, which is very unrealistic and cringe-worthy for emulating handwriting.

There are handwritten-like fonts which avoid that problem, by having several versions of each glyph and choosing one randomly for each letter. Some of them even introduce some random variation in the shapes to replicate true handwritten text.

Re: Comic Mono

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Post by DrSiemer »

Comic Sans has gained a cultural meaning beyond it's design, which is why it's inappropriate for any official publications.

Personally I have more fun spotting the "Jokerman" font in public. It is often chosen to display creativity or playfulness by people who appear to lack the skill to expand the Windows font selection.

Re: Comic Mono

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Post by jasomill »

foolfoolz wrote: post #100
Biganon wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

You're not wrong. As fan of single-storey (your "normal") "a" and "g", a few additional examples do, however, come immediately to mind:

Classic example: Futura.

Modern examples:

Apple fonts: Monaco uses both single-storey "a" and "g"; San Francisco uses single-storey "g" by default, and includes single-storey "a" in stylistic sets.

The Adobe Source (Code, Sans) and IBM Plex (Sans, Serif, Mono) font families include both single-storey "a" and "g" as alternate glyphs accessible through OpenType stylistic sets.

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