Yes. It. Is.
And, please, let's keep language like that off the board. There's no call for that.
What's wrong with Comic Sans?
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Yes. It. Is.
And, please, let's keep language like that off the board. There's no call for that.
Oh dear.
I like many fonts. They all have their uses. That said, I do have some preferences.
I have an old saying:
Tahoma on my desktop,
Arial on my Web,
Impact on my funny pics,
Lucida for .txt,
A-Black on my titles,
Wingdings in my art,
Times New Roman on my work,
Comic Sans in my heart.
... Chops.
I have an old saying:
Tahoma on my desktop,
Arial on my Web,
Impact on my funny pics,
Lucida for .txt,
A-Black on my titles,
Wingdings in my art,
Times New Roman on my work,
Comic Sans in my heart.
... Chops.
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I'm a fan of Helvetica, Palatino Linotype, Garamond, Times New Roman and Sylfaen.
Just be careful...or else...
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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.
If you're strictly a sans serif guy, then I have nothing else to say to you.
I don't hate Comic Sans (although I think it's pretty ugly and I am bored of seeing it) but it's fair to say that I am prejudiced against people who use it. It seems to be used by people who have just cottoned on to the fact that there is more than one font in the world. A colleague of mine recently wrote a whole business letter in it. Personally, I fell out with Times New Roman about 3 years ago and moved over to Arial. Now I'm thinking that Helvetica's where it's at. All in all, I am a bit of a font snob. Still, I know bugger all about wine or clothes so I suppose fonts is a good enough subject as any to have a pointless opinion on.
ITL, is that Look Around You?
ITL, is that Look Around You?
Funny. I thought your middle name was "of".
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Funny. I thought your middle name was "of".
In your primitive Earth dialect, perhaps.
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.
I think that's Calibri you're thinking of, and you actually can download it from the Microsoft site for use in Office 2003 (along with the other "C-fonts" released for Office '07).
The other C-fonts are Corbel, Consolas, Candara, Cambria, and Constantia.
Here's how to get them: http://www.hunlock.com/blogs/Downloading_and_Using_Vista_Web_Fonts
I hated everything else Microsoft did to Office '07, but the C-fonts were definitely a good choice because Times New Roman was butt ugly.
Oh, and the C-fonts look good regardless of whether you use that ClearType mess or not. (I have a nice flat-screen and I still refuse to turn on ClearType because no, it does NOT make things easier to read.)
What's wrong with Comic Sans? -What's not wrong with it?
It makes every single thing look like the invitation to the office x-mas party, a soccer mom's newsletter, a valley girl's blog, a clown's business card, a 'missing kitten' flyer...
I'm basically a Times New Roman user myself and when it comes to sans serif I'll use any of the literally hundreds of them I have stored (not all of them installed though) on my system -Some of them comic as well, but not over used.
It makes every single thing look like the invitation to the office x-mas party, a soccer mom's newsletter, a valley girl's blog, a clown's business card, a 'missing kitten' flyer...
I'm basically a Times New Roman user myself and when it comes to sans serif I'll use any of the literally hundreds of them I have stored (not all of them installed though) on my system -Some of them comic as well, but not over used.
I generally prefer serif fonts, Palatino Linotype in particular. If I absolutely must have a sans serif, I go with Verdana.
There was a comic book forum I was a member of in the late '90's that was all Comic Sans, all the time. It didn't bother me.
There was a comic book forum I was a member of in the late '90's that was all Comic Sans, all the time. It didn't bother me.
Exactly!
Palatino is classy, elegant and easy to read, but it's a tad overused. As a professional typesetter, I know there's a time and a place for both serif and sans-serif fonts. If the body text is in a serif font, for example, I'll often set the headings in a sans-serif font for contrast. Or vice versa.
The one font I have NO place for is Park Avenue. FUGLY.
Right back at ya': Exactly! -might not be common sense, but it sure looks good on the page
Exactly!
Yeah...I mean, there IS a place for it. Like I said, if you're running a day care, or if you really ARE making a missing kitten flyer, it fits.
But for serious, professional purposes, outside those few fields where non-seriousness or lightheartedness is actually expected as a part of that field, it doesn't fit at ALL.
As an aside...when I write my fanfic, on my own computer I use Corbel.
Personally I hate Comic Sans. It looks cheap, really.
I use Times New Roman or Calibri. They look decent, do the job and are easy on the eye. In general, Times for formal projects, Calibri for my own, it's more a lighter, less serious font than Times, and it's generally the default font, meaning I don't have to bother changing it.
I use Times New Roman or Calibri. They look decent, do the job and are easy on the eye. In general, Times for formal projects, Calibri for my own, it's more a lighter, less serious font than Times, and it's generally the default font, meaning I don't have to bother changing it.
Didn't know that one until I googled it right now... Damn, you're right! That is some ugly mish-mash of do-not's and don't-ever's
