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The author of the website explicitly states that using Comic Sans for nine-year-olds’ birthday invitations is perfectly appropriate. He does not in any way expr
by ugh 16y ago
The author of the website explicitly states that using Comic Sans for nine-year-olds’ birthday invitations is perfectly appropriate. He does not in any way express hatred for Comic Sans. Please don’t attack a straw man.
I agree with you that ridiculing people for their typographic choices is a bad idea. In many contexts – like the note on the refrigerator – those choices just don’t matter as long as the type is legible. Even when typographic choices might matter it’s better to educate people and not be a jerk. Typography is not taught in school and unless you take an active interest in it you will just not know anything about it.
- blhack 16y agoI guess I'm not specifically speaking to the author of the article, but more to the impression that I get from the design community. It's the kind of thing that causes people to not even try things because they're so afraid of looking so stupid.
- rbxbx 16y agoThere's quite a bit of this in the development community as well, keep in mind. It just seems a bit more practical to us. At the end of the day most any language/paradigm is Turing complete, as is any font.
- kingsidharth 16y agoThere is a fine line between 'trying something' and 'repeating something stupidly'.