What's with the comic sans hatred?

[benb]

Verdana[/font] (for san serif) and Georgia (serif). I don't think either has aged terribly well.

Not sure about Georgia, but Verdana was specifically designed for screens, so is my preferred font for websites.

 

[gaz]

Having read into typography quite a bit, anyone that doesn't want to type in Helvetica Nue or Verdana isn't sane.

 

[Davidc]

I hate comic sans and find it slow to read but really like Avant Garde which isn't available here. Normally use Arial becase I don't like TNR.

Like TC I put anything in comic sans straight in the recycling bin.

 

[slowmotion]

Tannenburg Fett has a certain gravitas, perhaps?

http://de.wikipedia....erg_(Schriftart)

Edit: That link doesn't work, sorry,

 

[XmisterIS]

Tannenburg Fett has a certain gravitas, perhaps?

http://de.wikipedia....erg_(Schriftart)

Edit: That link doesn't work, sorry,

Ich habe das fuer dich korrigiert: hier

Du darfst mich danken!

EDIT: Doch, scheisse dummkopf Computer! Es kann das gar nicht! Warum nicht???!!!

Ich werde es ganz zerschmeissen!!

EDIT 2: Schliesslich! Ich habe es befestigt!

 

[slowmotion]

Ich habe das fuer dich korrigiert: hier

Du darfst mich danken!

EDIT: Doch, scheisse dummkopf Computer! Es kann das gar nicht! Warum nicht???!!!

Ich werde es ganz zerschmeissen!!

{Under the spotlights, he banged his fist on the podium, screeching.......}

Excellent!

 

[Black Sheep]

I quite like it myself, very light, pretty, easy on the eye and so uncorporate. Everyone should use it. To lambast a font is just plain strange.

http://www.bbc.co.uk...gazine-11582548

What's the problem?

Its evil, pure and simple.


Marks and Spencer's typeface, Optima is designed to be only a few words together, not a block of text, it looks very very wrong when used as such, Comic Sans is the same, it is designed to be used in the Beano in comic book speech bubbles, in that setting it is right and is readable.

Yes it is now. I find that in school it is easier for pupils to read than some other fonts. Especially those with reading difficulties. It is closer to a Primary teachers black chalkboard style.

As someone with dyspraxia I used to be seen as a pain by the disability support department at uni as i simply can not read anything written in comic sans!


I studied graphic design and we had to justify our typeface choices (font, or to spell it the British way, fount, is actually the method of producing the type) there was never a reason for using comic sans or papyrus!

If we used times, helvetica or arial we had a harder job justifying it as they are default typefaces for various programs.

Personally I prefer Gill Sans, its nice and simple typeface and is the default typeface now on my computer, everything appears in it unless a typeface has been specified.

 

[slowmotion]

Comic Sans is worthy and preachy, and has a cosy " we are social workers and we are here to steal your children, right from your own doorstep, but we are following this action in the best interests of the child" feel. It has a bogus friendliness, and the smack of dumbing-down and infantilism. A propagandist's useful tool.

Give me the straightforward nastiness of a Nazi font anyday. At least it was honest.