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Re: Comic Mono

#191

Post by michaelcampbell »

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…

On LinkedIn I saw a Master's Degree diploma in Comic Sans shown by a recent graduate. As it happens the University is local and I have colleagues that graduated from there so I had to ask one about it. He confirmed that his at least is in the more typical gothic-y serif style font.

Re: Comic Mono

#192

Post by michaelcampbell »

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've always been quite irritated by the amount of disdain toward Comic Sans.

So who exactly is the more petty? People getting irritated by a typeface, or people getting irritated over those people?

Re: Comic Mono

#193

Post by michaelcampbell »

jasomill wrote: post #189
foolfoolz wrote: post #100

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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 b…

I always felt somehow ashamed for liking the 'a' in Monaco.

Re: Comic Mono

#194

Post by michaelcampbell »

pell wrote: post #75
mikehollinger wrote: post #63

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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

I hadn't before now and am going with "yeah, brilliant". I don't think I've seen anything Ryan Gosling's done that I haven't liked him in; to the point of a bit of a man-crush.

Re: Comic Mono

#195

Post by michaelcampbell »

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

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> 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.

So you're trying to convince us you legitimately though it was named, before anyone saw it, based on a presumed reaction people would have when they did?

Pardon me, I think my bullshit meter just exploded.

Re: Comic Mono

#196

Post by jasomill »

xattt wrote: post #23
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?

Myriad and Garamond for Apple copycats.

Adobe used Myriad as a corporate identity face for nearly a decade before Apple.

Garamond has a rather more extensive history, but, suffice it to say that, in terms of typography at least, 1984[1] was not entirely unlike Nineteen Eighty-Four[2].

[1] https://youtu.be/VtvjbmoDx-I?t=54

[2] https://thumbs.worthpoint.com/zoom/images3/1/1215/25/1949-uk...

Re: Comic Mono

#197

Post by CornCobs »

mbo wrote: post #82
ThePadawan wrote: post #78

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This is why Bertrand Meyer formats all his lecture slides this way. See e.g. http://se.inf.ethz.ch/courses/2013a_spring/JavaCSharp/lectur... It's readable enough for students to refer back to, but ugly enough that they prefer listening instead of reading along.

Simon Peyton Jones (Haskell committee) also formats all his lecture slides in Comic Sans: https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/1bd1ia/spj_and_com...

In fact it's been so long since I've seen anyone use it for powerpoint slides (or anything really) that when I came across the "Wearing the hair shirt" talk recently I was hit with a nice nostalgic feeling: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/wearing...

Re: Comic Mono

#198

Post by noisy_boy »

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…

Fantasque Sans Mono was my go-to monospace font until Jetbrains Mono came out. I still think it looks quite good for code while not being too comic-y.

Re: Comic Mono

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Post by whalesalad »

Honestly this isn’t bad. I can see it being particularly useful for code examples or situations where you want code to appear playful or otherwise less stodgy to the user. API documentation and blog posts come to mind.

Definitely deserves a run in the editor at the very least.

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