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It's not so much the most hated font, as the most abused font. Once we finally collectively acknowledge this, it can start healing.
by TheRealPomax 3y ago
It's not so much the most hated font, as the most abused font. Once we finally collectively acknowledge this, it can start healing.
- ssgodderidge 3y agoAgreed, the most hated font is easily Papyrus. Looking at you, Avatar.
- TheRealPomax 3y agoThat's literally what it was commissioned for, so... yes, obviously we're looking at Avatar? Yet again, an abused font that should be taken away from every mom with a facebook group and given a safe place to be itself.
- zerocrates 3y agoWhat do you mean that's what it was commissioned for? Papyrus long predates Avatar.
- ssgodderidge 3y agoAgreed, Papyrus was invented in 1982[1], and not at all related to Avatar. Avatar just happened to use it. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papyrus_(typeface) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papyrus_(typeface)
- a_e_k 3y agoIYMI: SNL had a pretty good skit about those two. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVhlJNJopOQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVhlJNJopOQ (Wait till the tag at the end, too.)
- ssgodderidge 3y agoOne of my all-time favorite SNL sketches.
- Sohcahtoa82 3y agoBingo. Comic Sans has its time and place. A note on your soda machine that you're out of CO2 is not the place. A professional e-mail isn't it, either. The only place Comic Sans belongs is in material aimed at or about children. It's fine for an invite to a child's birthday party. It's fine for the cover of a children's book.
- TheRealPomax 3y agoOr, you know, comics (paper or web, same difference) or comic panels/illustrations.
- Sohcahtoa82 3y agoMost comics don't actually use Comic Sans.