I was flipping through the channels earlier today. There was a show (it could have been on a public access channel) where the text identifying the host (what are often called ‘lower third fonts’) was written in Comic Sans MS. That’s a font that comes installed on every PC.
It is now banned. As of today, you no longer have my permission to use it.
OK – I don’t have that power (yet). But, if I did, Comic Sans would be outta here.
It’s supposed to look like casually written text, but it’s often used in a formal design setting (like the aforementioned lower third). Whatever the case, it’s ugly. No, it’s butt ugly!
Comic Sans MS is unlike every other font that comes on your computer. There are some, like Trebuchet, Verdana and the universally overused Arial, that are great. There are plenty of non-Comic fonts to show your casual side.
Is it possible for a type face to bother me? Yes! Is this a sign of some sort of obsessive disorder? Probably.
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Yes! Death to Comic Sans! People use this font to be ‘cute’ or in worse cases, formal! Geoff, I feel your pain and I have always felt that this font is just TERRIBLE and Microsoft should BAN this font from the new version of Windows!
Now I know why you don’t answer my e-mails.
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Off the sweeps Sunday-Thursday schedule are you?
I agree with you 100%. I have been on an anti-Comic Sans crusade for years. Any graphics house that agrees to use it for its customers should be automatically shut down just on principle.
I forget which college it is that used Comic Sans on its basketball court … I only see it on TV during tournament time (Boise State, maybe? Their football field is BLUE, for gods’ sake, I wouldn’t put this faux pas past them either).
However, full disclosure time here: I used Comic Sans on the most recent web site I designed … but the whole thing has a comics theme, and the actual font that was used for the album’s liner notes isn’t web-safe, so Comic Sans was the closest we could do. It made me slightly ill, but had to be done.