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Reminds me of Hellvetica. Unfortunately, the website is gone, but the Internet Archive has saved us this gem: https://web.archive.org/web/20201229053709/https://hellvetic...
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I see a lot of the "why do people hate Comic Sans" articles on the web think it's just because it's a handwritten, casual font used in inappropriate situations, but this seems like post-hoc rationalization. It's the Comic Sans look specifically that people intensely dislike, not "handwritten" fonts in general. The original and better case against Comic Sans was that there were much better handwritten, comic-text-styl…
stylistically, my personal taste is that Comic Sans is exactly the right font to use for serious warning signs like in a kitchen, such as "DON'T TOUCH, handle gets HOT" or something. Anything official looking I have a tendency to ignore as boilerplate, but comic sans seems like a personal friendly message directed at me if any of the objection is to the precise letter drawings, ok fine, give me a different one, but t…
One can get a similar, extremely ugly effect if one is reading Japanese text rendered on a Chinese language system. Many kanjis in the Japanese text will default to the glyphs in the system Chinese font. However, the kanas as well as some kanjis are not included in the Chinese font will be rendered with a failback font, frequently in a very different style.
I'm not sure if the serif-icity is the jarring part, I think it's the different point size (or whatever that word is for the horizontal height lines that fonts live within). I'm curious why type/font technology hasn't developed for variation in letters, where a handwriting or printing typeface (or "Ransom" :) could vary the letter "a" so all the "a"'s don't look alike, the same as happens irl.
People really seem to hate "handwritten" fonts. Comic Sans is the mainstream example, but there are a lot of other ones. As others said, stylistic alternatives definitely exist in most font packages, especially commercial ones used with Adobe products. So the fact that they are not widely used outside of graphic design probably goes back to people generally hate fonts that look handwritten for anything besides weddin…
Reminds me of Hellvetica. Unfortunately, the website is gone, but the Internet Archive has saved us this gem: https://web.archive.org/web/20201229053709/https://hellvetic...
Reminds me of Hellvetica. Unfortunately, the website is gone, but the Internet Archive has saved us this gem: https://web.archive.org/web/20201229053709/https://hellvetic...
Would be much more annoying if every so often a letter was eve r so s|ightly wrong.
Neat. By a strange coincidence, I made something similar yesterday in a script to make each letter in HTML into a different font. I wanted to see if it would end up as an OCR-proof font: https://gist.github.com/tonyb486/0e3efc9240953c86a50a019b56c... An example: https://tmp.tonybox.net/chbgr.htm Rasterized and OCR'd: https://tmp.tonybox.net/ocr.pdf