Why I created Comic Sans
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Re: Why I created Comic Sans
#12There is nothing wrong with Comic Sans, it's the overuse and inappropriate use that is the problem.
Just like guns and sugar.
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#13Comic Sans is the Justin Bieber of fonts - hated by a lot, yet incredibly popular.
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#14Comic Sans as a font needs no defense. Just like a good band with bad fans, we don't balk at Comic Sans, we balk at the people who use comic sans for inappropriate things. (Or to use a more computery analogy, there's nothing wrong with capital letters or all-caps, but some users use them inappropriately). City memo minutes should not be distributed in Comic Sans. Wedding invitations should probably not be in Comic Sa…
There is definitely an internet lynch mob mentality on this even though the inappropriate use critique is spot on. You'd have to be a brave designer to use it, even in an befitting way. Apps like Balsamiq have dropped it and subbed in look-a-likes just so people have cover to say it isn't Comic Sans.
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#15Simon Garfield wrote a great book called "Just My Type"[1] which dives deep into the history of landmark fonts. Includes a full chapter on Comic Sans, highly recommended read.
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#16One of the reasons people don't like Comic Sans is because it was overused, largely thanks to being included with a bunch of default Microsoft tools. It was also use in the wrong contexts. Amusingly, I think the same holds true of the typeface that sparked the whole thing: Time New Roman. Far too many people use it for far too much, sometimes in the wrong context. So maybe we should all use Times less too! (I tend to…
Microsoft did partly address that by making Cambria and Calibri its default header and body fonts.
But really, basic knowledge about Typography would help a great deal in creating decent looking content. A Serif title with Sans body-text for the web makes content easier to read, and the inverse is true for print.
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#17Bahahaha comic sans sucks.
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#18Amusing: one (pidgin) interpretation of "Comic Sans" is "without humour."
Similarly, the font assembled from scans of the lettering in xkcd comics is called "Humour Sans".
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#19Speaking of Comic Sans…here's a $100,000 rebranding for a town in Ontario - Port Hope.
http://www.designedgecanada.com/news/2013/20130115688.shtml
:P
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#20And here I thought it was just to piss off pretentious typography fascists and give self-righteous design snobs something to huff about. Really, I've always been a defender of comic sans as appropriate where the intent is to be casual or personal. One critical comment by a BBC article reader: "The main problem I have with Comic Sans is that it makes everything written in it look like a parish newsletter pinned to a n…
I don't think even the most pretentious of designers would ever scoff at the use of Comic Sans where it was appropriate and fitting, such as on the invitation to a 6 year old's birthday party. That's where is fits, it exudes 'fun'.
Where 'pretentious' designers do begin to huff is when it is used in a clearly inappropriately context such as on police notices raising awareness of rape.
The handwriting example isn't particularly good because learning calligraphy is a skill that I assume takes a decent amount of time to reach proficiency in. Making a couple of extra clicks in a word processor and selecting something like Arial is not.