Comic Sans: Threat Or Menace?

Comic Sans has its place. It's one of the few fonts that "a" looks how kids learn it. It's a good thing. Just really not appropriate outside early years education...

Don't make me use comic sans. You won't like me when I'm...GAHHHHHHHH!

Kneel before Sans.

(All I know is that's a thing from a Superman movie.)

I actually can't see the Sans. So either my phone is trying to protect my sanity by blocking the font, or I've already lost it and Comic Sans now looks like TNR to me.

I use it all the time in dialogue bubbles for social media. I can't think of any other use I've had for it other than for pissing people off.

I hate you all.

Comic Sans is awful. I'm in graphic design school and at the end of the year some students and I created a fake project and handed it in for fun using all of the elements our teacher told us to never to use. Comic Sans was the icing on the cake.

Comic Sans has its place. It's just that that particular list of places is growing shorter and shorter.

I have a Chrome plugin to change fonts on sites to Comic Sans.

That list of places is growing larger and larger.

I would like to see the graphic design no-no project.

It always starts that way. Then before you know it, you're underlining Papyrus and doing Comic Sans in <whisper> yellow <whisper>

<whisper> yellow <whisper>

Shouldn't that second one be a </whisper>?

Comic Sans is good for what it says it's for: direct emulation of informal (but trained) hand printing. Comic captions, stuff like that. It's not that different from what engineers used to use on blueprints.

You can get a great blackboard effect in HTML using white or (tell it not in Gath, utter it not in the streets of Askelon, lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice!) yellow Comic Sans on a black background in a grey frame. Chalk-stick graphic on the "ledge" optional.

But using it at random is a bogus as using a blackletter font at random.

Yair . . .

I like comic sans.

For my style of dialogue heavy writing and two finger typing I find it easier than other fonts to "construct" a page . . . it's easy to place the cursor.

I work in it exclusively but convert the file before submission.

I made a boo boo last week while printing off 430 pages for my agent . . . I was half done and realised I hadn't switched. I gave her a ring and she reckoned to continue on with the whole M/S and she wouldn't let it sway her judgement. (big grin)

Cheers.

Angry Guy said:

Next, will I start using monospaced fonts

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Monospaced fonts kick sand in the face of Comic Sans.