What's wrong with Comic Sans?

[Trekker4747]

This is a font that's much hated across The Interwebnetsformationhighways. Why? I mean, sure, it's not a great font, but I mean it's not terrible. I rarely use it, I'm more of an "Arial" fan, myself. But many people have some deep, deep hate for Comic Sans.

Porque?

 

[Locutus of Bored]

It knows what it did.

I think it has to do with overuse in emails and on announcements mainly, and perhaps a little bit of people using a "silly" font in situations where it's not appropriate like serious business communications and so forth.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

It's not bad in small doses but sites that have all their text in Comic Sans just look super trashy.

 

[ITL]

It knows what it did.

I think it has to do with overuse in emails and on announcements mainly, and perhaps a little bit of people using a "silly" font in situations where it's not appropriate like serious business communications and so forth.

A world of this. Also, it just looks bad. I never liked it even before I saw it everywhere. There's loads of "comic book" fonts out there that are way better.

So - marks out of ten for Comic Sans, if you please...

 

[Spot's Meow]

I think it's just overuse. I used to not mind it so much, though I never used it terribly often because too much of it makes text kind of hard to read (I prefer Verdana or Lucida Sans Unicode). But other people in the early 2000s were using it everywhere they could and I just got sick of seeing it.

 

[McCoy]

I love it. Always have, always will. It's my font of choice.

 

[Nerys Ghemor]

It looks unprofessional. There were few things I hated worse than seeing a customer order business cards in that font--unless they were in a business where some silliness is expected, like a day care. Because frankly, it looks like a little child's handwriting.

 

[Owain Taggart]

It was apparently only to be used in Microsoft Bob for dialogue boxes, but then somehow made its way onto Windows releases.

 

[iguana_tonante]

It's bad, bland, boring.

Personally, I'm a Times New Roman kind of guy.

 

[David cgc]

I'm Comic Sans, asshole.

Listen up. I know the shit you've been saying behind my back. You think I'm stupid. You think I'm immature. You think I'm a malformed, pathetic excuse for a font. Well think again, nerdhole, because I'm Comic Sans, and I'm the best thing to happen to typography since Johannes fucking Gutenberg....

 

[RoJoHen]

I used to love Comic Sans, but then I became an adult.

 

[scotpens]

I'm more of an “Arial” fan, myself.

I hate Arial. It's a malproportioned, badly spaced knockoff of Helvetica. I use it as little as possible. My favorite sans-serif fonts are Frutiger, Franklin Gothic, Antique Olive and Univers.

There were few things I hated worse than seeing a customer order business cards in that font--unless they were in a business where some silliness is expected, like a day care. Because frankly, it looks like a little child's handwriting.

It's supposed to. The Kidprint and Lemonade fonts are also designed to mimic children's writing. But have you ever seen kids' handwriting that actually looks like that?

 

[Kestra]

It lacks any sort of refinement. Arial is without elegance as well, and should only be used when you need a paper to be just a paragraph longer. The only font anyone should be using is Garamond.

 

[JonathonWally]

Wing Dings all the way.

 

[scotpens]

It lacks any sort of refinement. Arial is without elegance as well, and should only be used when you need a paper to be just a paragraph longer. The only font anyone should be using is Garamond.

I like Garamond. It's a classic that's been around for 450 years or so. But there are plenty of other nice-looking serif typefaces. I'm partial to Galliard and Cochin. Caslon is okay too.

 

[sidious618]

My teachers in MS would always use comic sans. Thus I hate it.

 

[MetalPants]

Courier for me. In university, it would turn a 17page paper into a 20 page paper, thus saving me three more pages of BS to write.

I even wrote my Master's thesis in Courier! Best hundred pages I ever wrote too, dagnabit!

 

[Thestral]

I had no idea there was this sort of snobbishness about a font. Sheesh, of all the things to get upset about.

Put me on the Times New Roman team I guess. Comic Sans is fine, but Times is more appealing to me.

 

[scotpens]

Courier for me. In university, it would turn a 17page paper into a 20 page paper, thus saving me three more pages of BS to write.

Yeah, Courier's a great font -- if you want your paper to look like it was typed on an IBM Selectric in 1970.

 

[Trekker4747]

I hate Courier. Ugh. I also hate sarif'ed fonts, not sure what it is but the sarifs and squigglies don't appeal to me, so when I'm writing I'll often use Arial, acutaly Arial Narrow. The computers at work have an Arial-Like font I really like (Caribi,Caribou?) that's nicely spaced and like a "refined" Arial, but it's not one I have on my home computer. "Franklin Gothic Book" on my version of Word looks kinda nice.