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# So what is
actually wrong with Comic Sans?

(I helped save b3ta! F5 F5 F5 Can't be arsed., Mon 15 Aug 2005, 12:40, archived)
#
ban comic sans
(I helped save b3ta! mcdoof fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, Mon 15 Aug 2005, 12:41, archived)
# Yes I've read that.
So tell me, what is wrong with Comic Sans?
(I helped save b3ta! F5 F5 F5 Can't be arsed., Mon 15 Aug 2005, 12:45, archived)
# it's just dead crap
dead childish
dead horrible
dead shitty
....
anymore?
(I helped save b3ta! mcdoof fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, Mon 15 Aug 2005, 12:46, archived)
# So it's
a matter of a group of people assuming the mantle of superiority over others for no real reason?
(I helped save b3ta! F5 F5 F5 Can't be arsed., Mon 15 Aug 2005, 12:50, archived)
# yes
we are like the nazi party, and Comic Sans are the jews
(I helped save b3ta! mcdoof fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, Mon 15 Aug 2005, 12:54, archived)
# You'll be telling
me my burberry baseball cap is not stylish next.
(I helped save b3ta! F5 F5 F5 Can't be arsed., Mon 15 Aug 2005, 13:12, archived)
# no, this one's a designer
i make things look pretty for a reason, and the only reason people use comic sans is clarity for primary school teaching and church newsletters, because it's insanely inoffensive, making it the single most offensive font on the planet.
*raising fists in Marquis of Queensbury Rules fashion*
(it's that the right rules?)
EDIT: i'm getting cross for no reason now. i need to eat. sorry peeps!
(niceandwarmandhot vive la résistance, Mon 15 Aug 2005, 12:55, archived)
# I always look at
like this:

At least its a hell of a lot better than that Script font that people used to use all the time.
(I helped save b3ta! F5 F5 F5 Can't be arsed., Mon 15 Aug 2005, 13:06, archived)
# We use Sassoon for primary school stuff, mostly.
And for a comic-book style font, I like Blambot's Letter-o-matic :
(I helped save b3ta! laminasni isn't., Mon 15 Aug 2005, 17:34, archived)
# I think it's
probably just that it's the worst of the windows fonts that most PC owners have. Therefor Colin Hunt type characters searching for a 'lively' typeface for an internal memo always plump for it.

There are worse fonts, but you have to make the effort to download them.
(I helped save b3ta! monkeon schmonkeon, Mon 15 Aug 2005, 12:48, archived)
# I don't particularly have any feelings on it
apart from its overuse.
(I helped save b3ta! F5 F5 F5 Can't be arsed., Mon 15 Aug 2005, 12:52, archived)
# I went to see my solicitor about buying a house today,
and all the cover sheets and file note headings in our conveyancing file are in Comic Sans. Very professional looking.
(tomsk, Mon 15 Aug 2005, 12:55, archived)
# hahahaha
i'm sorry, that's hilarious.
it's better than the time i got a flyer completely written in that Curly font. I could not read it.
(niceandwarmandhot vive la résistance, Mon 15 Aug 2005, 12:57, archived)
# The most unusual
place I've seen it used is on the signs for the public toilets in Wakefield.
(I helped save b3ta! monkeon schmonkeon, Mon 15 Aug 2005, 12:57, archived)
# You've used the public toilets in Wakefield?
Eurgh.
(I helped save b3ta! mcdoof fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, Mon 15 Aug 2005, 13:00, archived)
# I've simply walked past
them and thought "What a nice use of comic sans"
(I helped save b3ta! monkeon schmonkeon, Mon 15 Aug 2005, 13:01, archived)
# "No officer, I wasn't
loitering, I was simply admiring the font on the signage."

Constable: "Admiring it? Why that's Comic Sans. You're nicked sonny."
(I helped save b3ta! F5 F5 F5 Can't be arsed., Mon 15 Aug 2005, 13:08, archived)
# hahahaha
ha
(I helped save b3ta! urbane legend i have known the inexorable sadness of pencils, Mon 15 Aug 2005, 13:21, archived)
# Hahahahahahaha!
Brilliant!
(Pocahontus the Mermaid with Wings, Mon 15 Aug 2005, 19:12, archived)
# I think it got a bit far last year
when I refused to accept posters from students in my class if they had used Comic Sans.

I got around it by saying "it looks childish and I want work that looks professional".
(I helped save b3ta! Rev. A-MOL is lurking around these parts again, Mon 15 Aug 2005, 13:10, archived)
# Fail them!!
Fail them at IT (isn't it ICT nowadays? am getting old) if they use Times New Roman 'cos it just means they can't change the default font :P I always had my work in Book Antiqua, never fails to get me more marks that.
(pumpkin pie, Tue 16 Aug 2005, 12:21, archived)
# it makes my head hurt
it is the font equivilent (spell?no idea) of over-enthusiastic christian tamborine-shakers
(niceandwarmandhot vive la résistance, Mon 15 Aug 2005, 12:51, archived)
# :)
homepage.mac.com/matsimpson/.Pictures/badge.gif
(I helped save b3ta! Mystery_Bob, Mon 15 Aug 2005, 12:50, archived)
# Does anyone remember......
the olde days when Comic Sans used to be called Jester?
(knife_of_justice, Mon 15 Aug 2005, 19:49, archived)
# Look Here
www.bancomicsans.com/
(I helped save b3ta! Squiggy Alloria makes theme parks., Mon 15 Aug 2005, 12:42, archived)
# EVERYTHING
(niceandwarmandhot vive la résistance, Mon 15 Aug 2005, 12:43, archived)
# I always quite
like it because it annoys people.

*sets outlook to send all messages in comic sans from now on*
(I helped save b3ta! monkeon schmonkeon, Mon 15 Aug 2005, 12:45, archived)
# damn you
*shakes fist*
(I helped save b3ta! mcdoof fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, Mon 15 Aug 2005, 12:45, archived)
# kill it, kill it hard
*sets thunderbird to strip all fonts from now on*
(I helped save b3ta! SixByNine By the power of Greyskull, Mon 15 Aug 2005, 12:50, archived)
# nothing
..if you`re a school kid or a primary school teacher

just do NOT send company memos via e-mail using it

yes CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER.. I`M TALKING ABOUT YOU
(I helped save b3ta! Reckless_Rik, Mon 15 Aug 2005, 12:45, archived)
# yeah
use the mongy font to make an impact
(I helped save b3ta! mongychops, Mon 15 Aug 2005, 12:47, archived)
# e-mail it to me, and I`ll use it in all company e-mail communications
and sign off with "Love, XXX Cheery Tomato"
(I helped save b3ta! Reckless_Rik, Mon 15 Aug 2005, 12:51, archived)
# i bloody will
and you want to use it
edit/ done
(I helped save b3ta! mongychops, Mon 15 Aug 2005, 12:58, archived)
# in a place i sude to work a while ago
the accounts girl used to send all her emails in comic sans in 24pt in fuschia pink.
MY EYES BLEEDED
(niceandwarmandhot vive la résistance, Mon 15 Aug 2005, 12:48, archived)
# Harsh
(G.Eusebio ...Fentruk from the long past..., Mon 15 Aug 2005, 14:01, archived)
# Everything about the unprofessionalism
(the word "comic" in its name should indicate its unsuitability for anything serious) already mentioned, plus...

FUCKING EXPERTS KEEP INISTING THAT EXAM PAPERS AND NOTES SHOULD USE IT TO HELP THE DYSLEXIC STUDENTS. The thing is, if you actually *ask* any said dyslexic students, they find it *harder* to read than the likes of Times or Helvetica.

So nothing is wrong with Comic Sans. The problem is with the fucktards who use it for things other than comics.
(LionsPhil, Mon 15 Aug 2005, 14:07, archived)