What's wrong with Comic Sans?

[Apophis]

The thing with the use of fonts, as with anything else in page design, is context. A font should be chosen with regard to its relationship to the content and theme of the document. Some people choose a font just because it looks 'cool' without ever thinking about whether or not it fits the theme. Of course, these same people also load up on pixelated and/or badly colored clip art, run on sentences and inappropriate capitalizations or use of "quotes".

(I do signs/flyers/ads as a second job so I'm probably oversensitive to this.)

 

[Squiggy]

 

[Trekker4747]

For April Fool's day next year T'Bonz should make the board's font be Comic Sans Bold Italic.

Hmnmmm. I wonder if there's people out there who can "read" Wingdings?

 

[Marten]

For April Fool's day next year T'Bonz should make the board's font be Comic Sans Bold Italic.

Hmnmmm. I wonder if there's people out there who can "read" Wingdings?

I'm sure some people here are decent klingon-speakers, a few might be able to read wingdings.

 

[Squiggy]

Now if we can just get everyone and their mother to quit using Copperplate Gothic Bold in every goddamn thing ever.

I tweaked my logo for you:

 

[Mary Ann]

EVIL thread bounce!

 

[Squiggy]

JESUS. I didn't realize this was a 2010 thread. My apologies.

 

[Spaceman Spiff]

S'okay. Comic Sans now has another year's worth of overuse.

I'm tired of seeing Papyrus everywhere, too.

 

[RJDiogenes]

There must be another thread on this topic. I'm sure I posted about this in the last few weeks.

 

[Judy Waxhorn]

My hate of Comic and Papyrus could fill several pages of a thread like this. I do graphical-printy-artish stuff for fun... and when people ask me to use one or the other I KILL THEM SO HARD THEY HAVE NO IDEA.

 

[Avalon]

There must be another thread on this topic. I'm sure I posted about this in the last few weeks.

Yeah -- I don't think I posted in it, but I remember reading it and there were recent posts in it.

 

[RoJoHen]

There must be another thread on this topic. I'm sure I posted about this in the last few weeks.

There was a thread about favorite fonts, but I can't find it.

 

[Tiberius]

Don't hate the font just because of how people use it.

 

[Squiggy]

There must be another thread on this topic. I'm sure I posted about this in the last few weeks.

There was a thread about favorite fonts, but I can't find it.

Neither can I. I knew Timby recently repeated his hatred for Copperplate but the search turns up nothing. NOOOOTHIIIING.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

I really like Palatino but I don't seem to get a lot of agreement there.

Arial needs to FOAD, though. Laziest font ever.

If I must have a sans serif font, give me Verdana.

I'm also of the mind that the only good font Microsoft ever gave us was System. But I mean the version where there's a dot in the middle of 0, not the slash. BRING BACK THE DOT!

 

[ITL]

I'm also of the mind that the only good font Microsoft ever gave us was System. But I mean the version where there's a dot in the middle of 0, not the slash. BRING BACK THE DOT!

...FLASHBACK! of my days using a pre-Windows 286...

Command line...remember to park the drive...no graphics...NO GRAPHICS, MAN!

 

[Robert Maxwell]

I'm also of the mind that the only good font Microsoft ever gave us was System. But I mean the version where there's a dot in the middle of 0, not the slash. BRING BACK THE DOT!

...FLASHBACK! of my days using a pre-Windows 286...

Command line...remember to park the drive...no graphics...NO GRAPHICS, MAN!

I always loved the sound parking the heads made on my Amstrad 286 clone.

MS-DOS 4.01 was a bit scary, though. I fucked up my configuration with edlin more than once, and since it was the family computer, my parents were not amused.

 

[ITL]

I'm also of the mind that the only good font Microsoft ever gave us was System. But I mean the version where there's a dot in the middle of 0, not the slash. BRING BACK THE DOT!

...FLASHBACK! of my days using a pre-Windows 286...

Command line...remember to park the drive...no graphics...NO GRAPHICS, MAN!

I always loved the sound parking the heads made on my Amstrad 286 clone.

MS-DOS 4.01 was a bit scary, though. I fucked up my configuration with edlin more than once, and since it was the family computer, my parents were not amused.

On the computer course I was on at the time, a couple of us used to write batch files to fuck with the tutors - false error reports on bootup, that sort of thing. Hehehe.

Errr.....fonts! Yeah! I like Verdana amd Palatino as well. And if you need a "comic" style font, there are many that look better than Comic Sans.

 

[Avalon]

There must be another thread on this topic. I'm sure I posted about this in the last few weeks.

There was a thread about favorite fonts, but I can't find it.

Neither can I. I knew Timby recently repeated his hatred for Copperplate but the search turns up nothing. NOOOOTHIIIING.

Found and bumped:
http://www.trekbbs.com/showthread.php?t=147851&page=2&highlight=fonts

ETA: Eh, crap, maybe I'm wrong -- that thread's addressed to Timby, but he never actually posted in it. Sorry.

 

[Kirby]

Personally I like Tahoma and Palatino, although at work our standard font is Calibre.
Comic Sans is my son's favorite. He's nine...