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Lobster is a nice, versatile, _trendy_ typeface. What's wrong with that?
It's sad, because it was a very nice font, but it's just overused.
Lobster 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 bub…
http://www.kadavy.net/blog/posts/why-you-hate-comic-sans/
By this author's logic we should all stop using Helvetica, too - it's way too common.
We 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 ...
I couldn't help noticing, though, that the page loaded wicked fast. Can't say I would mind it if more of the web was still that efficient.
The problem is its overuse, not it's qualities as a typeface. Comic Sans is not a bad typeface, it was merely overused and became a cliche. Lobster is well down that same path.
Once Lobster has shown up consistently on PTA meeting itineraries, junior high pep-rally announcements and yard-sale flyers for about 15 years then maybe that font will be able to compare itself to Comic Sans.
Oy. Comic Sans isn't problematic because everyone uses it, it's problematic because it's a bad font. The kerning alone is reason enough not to use it. http://www.kadavy.net/blog/posts/why-you-hate-comic-sans/ By this author's logic we should all stop using Helvetica, too - it's way too common.
Helvetica, in my opinion, is a fantastic utility. It gets out of the way, and only those who know to look for it notice it.
Lobster is a nice, versatile, _trendy_ typeface. What's wrong with that?
Indeed - it is a very nice font. Unfortunately we're ALL using it in our projects, and it can make projects look lazy or "me too". It's sad, because it was a very nice font, but it's just overused.