Dear Startups, Lobster is the new Comic Sans
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Dear Startups, Lobster is the new Comic Sans
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Re: Dear Startups, Lobster is the new Comic Sans
#2We will look back at our designs and sites years from now and go... "What happened to 90% of those sites?" :)
Re: Dear Startups, Lobster is the new Comic Sans
#3It is a lot nicer to read than comic sans.
Re: Dear Startups, Lobster is the new Comic Sans
#4Lobster is a nice, versatile, _trendy_ typeface. What's wrong with that?
Re: Dear Startups, Lobster is the new Comic Sans
#5... said the company with the awful trying-to-be-hip design.
Re: Dear Startups, Lobster is the new Comic Sans
#6We will look back at our designs and sites years from now and go... "What happened to 90% of those sites?" :)
http://www.killersites.com/killerSites/
And yet, in its time, this was the shit.
Let's pour one out for the single-pixel GIF ...
Re: Dear Startups, Lobster is the new Comic Sans
#7Lobster is a nice, versatile, _trendy_ typeface. What's wrong with that?
Nothing at all, and there was nothing wrong with Comic Sans either. However it drives my friends who aspire to be designers into frothing fits of rage.
It was explained to me this way, "Chuck lets say that bubble sorts and bloom filters were these versatile algorithms that worked really well on a few things, but a bunch of cut-n-paste programmers started using them for every program they wrote, hello world with a bubble sort and a bloom filter, a temperature monitor with a bubble sort and a bloom filter, a file system with a bubble sort and a bloom filter, wouldn't it drive you NUTS?"
And I have to admit when I'm being honest with myself that folks who program 'cook book' style (which is to say they re-use code that kinda works and then bodge it into shape with a hack or two) do rub me the wrong way.
Apparently this is how designers feel about things like Comic Sans and the four box table layout and the any number of things that people do to put together web sites that the creator enjoys, but are not actually designed.
Re: Dear Startups, Lobster is the new Comic Sans
#8I really don't understand this rant. Lobster is a title font, not a body font. Also unlike Comic Sans, it's actually pretty nice. The argument seems to be that Lobster is "overplayed" which is not only a snobbish, whiny thing to say but completely ignores the fact that Helvetica, Times New Roman, Arial, Georgia, etc. are used much more often. In fact you wouldn't notice Lobster at all except that it replaces the Arial you're used to seeing.
Re: Dear Startups, Lobster is the new Comic Sans
#9... said the company with the awful trying-to-be-hip design.
Looks like the most simplest wordpress template to me. I'd appreciate any thought over no thought when it comes to design.
Re: Dear Startups, Lobster is the new Comic Sans
#10... said the company with the awful trying-to-be-hip design.
Wow, I'm no expert but you're right. That header image is rather fugly.