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> It's really really really terrible for anything else. That's your opinion. https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-comic-sans-asshole https://www.mcsweeneys.n
by ebg13 7y ago
> It's really really really terrible for anything else.
That's your opinion. https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-comic-sans-asshole https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-comic-sans-asshole
- atoav 7y agoComic Sans is a good font if you want to make the thing look like it was made by a six year old on a computer. It is the printed equivalent of a lazy note written onto a crumbled sheet of paper by somebody who yet has to drink their first coffee of the day. Comic Sans are the equivalent of office calendar quotes like: “You don’t have to be mad to work here, but it helps”. If this is the message you wanna get across, it is the perfect choice. For most other messages there are other more appropriate fonts (many of which can also be quite funky). Comic Sans was my favourite font when I was 8 and made birthday invitations using it tho.
- stubish 7y agoNobody knows what font I was using when I typed this though. Better to use what is comfortable, or heck, more fun, than something boring because I'm supposed to be some kind of adult now.
- ebg13 7y agoThe font doesn't bring these feelings. You do. What if the problem is just that people have decided that it's ok to get upset about a font they don't like? Maybe people should try not to do that instead. > more appropriate fonts There are only two things that determine the appropriateness of a font: 1) Readability 2) The aesthetic desire of the person writing the message Nobody ever says that Comic Sans isn't readable, generally readability is considered to be one of its virtues. People just think that the aesthetic desire of the reader should triumph over the aesthetic desire of the writer, and there they are wrong.