The other day I went over to my mother's house for dinner, and she brought out her latest paper to show off, all nicely printed out with margins and whitespace and big-falutin' words, and began to buzz something about the wonderlovely font she wrote it in, when my eyeballs swooped in on the text and seized in horror. It was Comic Sans.
If you don't know what I mean, this is Comic Sans. And it sucks, truly, monkey flaps.
Mom thought it was the greatest thing since sliced Arial. I don't know what it is about that generation, but they all love Comic Sans. Show any one of them, who has never gone about it before, how to make a web page, and I guarantee it'll be crawling with Comic Sans before 10 minutes are out.
Someone, at least, has their head screwed on right: http://bancomicsans.com/. Put the sans back in Comic Sans!
P.S. Oh wait, I didn't give a reasonable argument as to why comic sans is so much completely the suck. Yeah, let me muster my carefully researched and cogent lines of debate:
If you don't know what I mean, this is Comic Sans. And it sucks, truly, monkey flaps.
Mom thought it was the greatest thing since sliced Arial. I don't know what it is about that generation, but they all love Comic Sans. Show any one of them, who has never gone about it before, how to make a web page, and I guarantee it'll be crawling with Comic Sans before 10 minutes are out.
Someone, at least, has their head screwed on right: http://bancomicsans.com/. Put the sans back in Comic Sans!
P.S. Oh wait, I didn't give a reasonable argument as to why comic sans is so much completely the suck. Yeah, let me muster my carefully researched and cogent lines of debate:
"Comic sans looks like the shambling tumored scrawl of a left-handed hebephrenic half-pudding dolt boy what has first poked himself up the honk with a whittled stick."There. End quote.
Oh, my eyeballs! The pain! Why!?! Why?!? Oh, my eyeballs!
I am so ridiculously with you.
At one time I too liked Comic Sans - it must come from being part of "that generation". However I have now seen the error of my ways (obviously influenced by you), and am forced to agree it should be relegated to children's birthday party invites only.
I second that emotion. Kathy Bryce was over at our office the other day and noticed the wallpaper on my desktop, which is the Ban Comic Sans logo. She's the only person who has ever commented on it (probably because 3/4 of the people in my office use it and love it), and the way she just sorted of motioned towards it and said "Um, yes" *completely* made my day. Of course then she helped us fix our software problems too, so that made my week. No, month. Probably year. Amen to Andornot - you guys are awesome!
But it so darned cute!
~F
(MUAH-HA-HA-HA-HA!)
Birthday cards, dude. That's where it belongs. Stupid, unfunny birthday cards that are supposed to be funny but aren't, because they're stupid.
I HATE comic sans... Especially in a serious article or document.
Comic Sans walks into a bar. The barman says "we don't serve your type here."
I hate it too. I dislike someone and it just so happens, their myspace profile headline is in the comic sans. Combine that with their lame music taste.... UGH! Why do I even look?
I teach a course in Basic Typography at a design school in Boston and I forbid my students from using CS. My wife is a second grade teacher and I tell my students that the only people who should be using CS is second grade teachers. THAT'S IT!
I once went to a funeral and the entire funeral program was laid out in CS. I couldn't believe it.