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Why I created Comic Sans
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Re: Why I created Comic Sans
#32Speaking 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
Canada has some interesting towns. I wonder if a Comic Sans rebranding would do anything for "Swastika, Ontario" - the sort of naming equivalent for radioactivity - for example! :)
Re: Why I created Comic Sans
#33Comic 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…
You can add the Pope's official commemorative photobook as another bad example.
Re: Why I created Comic Sans
#34One 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…
Thanks. This is what I wanted to say as well. I am heartily sick of Times/Arial/Comic as you rightly said. Hell, I even saw it on some road sign/car parking bays where some kind of large Sans (Highway Sans??) is legally obligatory! Now Times as replace the venerable Courier New in US govt. documents.... Oh the horror!
For me it was anything but those. :-) +1 for Palatino/Garamond. I also read somewhere that Garamond uses less ink too (but readability on A5 for fonts less than 11 pt is somewhat hard)
Serif: I am partial to Century Schoolbook myself because it is eminently readable by all ages (on 10pt no less!) on A5 sizes. (I read somewhere that this was the first font that launched Knuth's imagination on kerning, etc. (in a nice way), and his life long fascination for typography)
Sans-Serif: Century Gothic - thin but very readable on small sizes as well. I later found out that this font takes up less printer ink while being printed as well. So double yay!
>> Please consider branching out and using something else for your next document
Very true. At least in this day and age of fontsquirrel, dafont, urbanfont, etc. etc.... there is no excuse to spend at least 15 mins to look for some interesting fonts. :-)
Re: Why I created Comic Sans
#35Comic 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…
> Just like a good band with bad fans
Actually, as a band you have a certain say in which fans you'll going to have.
Re: Why I created Comic Sans
#36One 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.
>> Cambria and Calibri its default header and body fonts.
>> A Serif title with Sans body-text for the web makes content easier to read, and the inverse is true for print.
You are very correct. So, in a way, Microsoft got it all mixed up in the font selection thing mentioned above, no?
Re: Why I created Comic Sans
#37> Because it's sometimes better than Times New Roman, that's why. Isn't this why most things exist? Because sometimes they are better than other similar thing?
That fails to account for things which everything else is always better, such as Windows ME.
Re: Why I created Comic Sans
#38Comic Sans is the Justin Bieber of fonts - hated by a lot, yet incredibly popular.
In both cases those that hate them spend far too much time expressing their hatred.
Re: Why I created Comic Sans
#39The funniest use of I ever saw was in the Fraternal Order of Police's Maricopa county lodge webpage. They listed all of the other previous Sheriffs in Times Roman, but when at the bottom of the list they had got to Arpaio's name, it was hilariously listed in Comic Sans. (It's no secret he's hated by the people who work for him!)
Re: Why I created Comic Sans
#40One 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…
Thanks. This is what I wanted to say as well. I am heartily sick of Times/Arial/Comic as you rightly said. Hell, I even saw it on some road sign/car parking bays where some kind of large Sans (Highway Sans??) is legally obligatory! Now Times as replace the venerable Courier New in US govt. documents.... Oh the horror! For me it was anything but those. :-) +1 for Palatino/Garamond. I also read somewhere that Garamond…
Thanks for pointing out the Century Schoolbook. I stumbled on it on some old hardware and liked the numbers very much. Now I know the name of the font.