Oh lord. About 3/4 of my tests in middle school were in Comic Sans. I absolutely detest the font. Not to mention it is difficult to read.
The Java book I'm reading uses Arial Bold (I think that is what it is) in the diagrams.
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The font you and I use! I love Comic Sans! And, why does this even matter? "Oh look! Comic Sans EVERYWHERE! I shall post this on Minecraft Forums!" So? .3.
The font you and I use! I love Comic Sans! And, why does this even matter? "Oh look! Comic Sans EVERYWHERE! I shall post this on Minecraft Forums!" So? .3.
Comic Sans MS was created for MS Bob. If you don't know what that is, the best equivalent is to think of it as a version of clippy for kids in Windows 3.1. One of the people who saw an early version of Bob noticed that the speech bubbles use Times Roman for the text, and he created a font more fitting the speech bubbles of MS Bob. Thus was born Comic Sans. It sort of ironic in it's way; he created a font because Times Roman was being misused, and now that font is perhaps the most misused font in the world, being used on probably a good percentage of formal documents. I always imagine stuff written in Comic sans as ending every sentence with a little clown honk sound.
Which was fine. When things went overboard was with the inclusion of the font in Windows 95.
Anyway, what is the font for? It's for it's intended purpose- which was to give a friendly and happy appearance to a font used for speech bubbles for a animated dog. The idea is that the font of type sets the tone of the voice speaking it. The characteristics of a typeface convey a meaning beyond the actual text; That's why we use different fonts. When you create an office memo, a "Please use other door" sign, or a diagram such as the one I provided as an example, using a font like Helvetica (Or Arial, it's poor cousin), Impact, or another heavy-stroked, font would be appropriate. Type-setting it with Comic Sans is downright ****ing ridiculous. This misuse is frequent, but unjustified. The very name tells you everything you need to know; it's "voice" as a font convey's silliness, childish naivete, irreverence, and is far too casual for almost any purpose. And even for those it would fit with, there are far better fonts to choose from ("I did this!" being a rather good one, but there are dozens of others).
Using Comic sans is like showing up to an event in a clown costume. You wouldn't show up to a company meeting, a funeral, a wedding, or pretty much anything wearing a clown costume, so why do people typeset invitations and memos for the same in the font? The reasons are three: First, they are morons, second, morons will always manage to **** things up, and third, Comic Sans has for no good reason been part of the set of fonts shipped with windows.
I think the best summary is that if you love comic sans, you don't know very much about typography. And if you hate comic sans, you don't know much about typography, either.
Comic sans of course has it's place- 20 years ago in a single application that failed. I actually cannot even think of a good place to use it today; there are other fonts that would suite that purpose much better, and have the added benefit of not being Comic Sans.
I love comic sans. Don't get why people hate it? It's just a damn font. Yeah, it's not that great to use it for professional stuff, but for everything else, it's fine.
I love comic sans because it's a comic book font.
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I love comic sans. Don't get why people hate it? It's just a damn font. Yeah, it's not that great to use it for professional stuff, but for everything else, it's fine.
I love comic sans because it's a comic book font.
It's difficult to read, makes everything look unprofessional, and people with dyslexia or other similar disorders simply CANNOT read anything in the font.
Comic sans is a horrible comic book font, mainly due to it being difficult to read. I often find myself tripping over words when skimming through comic sans text in my head.
I love comic sans. Don't get why people hate it? It's just a damn font. Yeah, it's not that great to use it for professional stuff, but for everything else, it's fine.
Define "everything else". Actually, name one thing that it's good for. I honestly couldn't think of any. Also, I just explained why people hate it.
I love comic sans because it's a comic book font.
I just explained where it came from. It doesn't come from comics, and it's not designed for comics.
It's difficult to read, makes everything look unprofessional, and people with dyslexia or other similar disorders simply CANNOT read anything in the font.
Comic sans is a horrible comic book font, mainly due to it being difficult to read. I often find myself tripping over words when skimming through comic sans text in my head.
It's not difficult to read. My handwriting is more difficult to read than Comic Sans.
I just explained where it came from. It doesn't come from comics, and it's not designed for comics.
Vincent Connare made the font for comic books like Watchmen and The Dark Knight Rises. It was inspired by MS Bob, it wasn't meant to be in MS Bob, it was meant for comics: http://www.webcitati...date=2009-04-19
Mr. Connare says he pulled out the two comic books he had in his office, "The Dark Knight Returns" and "Watchmen," and got to work, inspired by the lettering and using his mouse to draw on a computer screen. Within a week, he had designed his legacy.
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It's not difficult to read. My handwriting is more difficult to read than Comic Sans.
It is very difficult to read. It is squiggly and has no serifs. If I were to give you an article in Comic Sans and the same one in Times New Roman you would get the difference. Same sort of thing with how it is harder to read all caps.
And apparently some people with dyslexia can't read it. That is interesting.
It is quite difficult to read. The letters have no form and most of them look the same.
I guarantee you quite a lot of people find it difficult to read.
Idk why, but I don't.
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Vincent Connare made the font for comic books like Watchmen and The Dark Knight Rises. It was inspired by MS Bob, it wasn't meant to be in MS Bob, it was meant for comics:
It was designed for MS-Bob. If it was designed for those comics- how was he looking at them when he created the font? It wasn't, and it hasn't been used in comics.
Comic Sans was designed because when I was working at Microsoft I received a beta version of Microsoft Bob. It was a comic software package that had a dog called Rover at the beginning and he had a balloon with messages using Times New Roman.
Comic Sans was NOT designed as a typeface but as a solution to a problem with the often overlooked part of a computer program's interface, the typeface used to communicate the message [in a comic character's message balloon].
There was no intention to include the font in other applications other than those designed for children when I designed Comic Sans. The inspiration came at the shock of seeing Times New Roman used in an inappropriate way.
I don't hate comic sans like everyone else here does. I don't mind it at all. I find it easy to read, you must all not have your glasses adjusted right or something. And if your dyslexic, why does it matter what text you use? Don't you have trouble with it all?
Quite amusing, my program at my school is Digital Media, which encompasses quite a few classes, including Graphic Design, which we take freshman year. The program leader had t-shirts made featuring a fairly good logo created by one of the students. On the back somebody (not sure who) had decide to have a kind of word-cloud-thing featuring the names of all of the classes and a certain design theme to go with them. Whoever did it used Comic Sans to write "Graphic Design." Caused rage.
Also, they used Papyrus for "Photography," heaven knows why.
I copypasta'd bc_programming's post, but changed it to comic sans. Read below, it gets annoying fast.
Comic Sans MS was created for MS Bob. If you don't know what that is, the best equivalent is to think of it as a version of clippy for kids in Windows 3.1. One of the people who saw an early version of Bob noticed that the speech bubbles use Times Roman for the text, and he created a font more fitting the speech bubbles of MS Bob. Thus was born Comic Sans. It sort of ironic in it's way; he created a font because Times Roman was being misused, and now that font is perhaps the most misused font in the world, being used on probably a good percentage of formal documents. I always imagine stuff written in Comic sans as ending every sentence with a little clown honk sound.
Which was fine. When things went overboard was with the inclusion of the font in Windows 95.
Anyway, what is the font for? It's for it's intended purpose- which was to give a friendly and happy appearance to a font used for speech bubbles for a animated dog. The idea is that the font of type sets the tone of the voice speaking it. The characteristics of a typeface convey a meaning beyond the actual text; That's why we use different fonts. When you create an office memo, a "Please use other door" sign, or a diagram such as the one I provided as an example, using a font like Helvetica (Or Arial, it's poor cousin), Impact, or another heavy-stroked, font would be appropriate. Type-setting it with Comic Sans is downright ****ing ridiculous. This misuse is frequent, but unjustified. The very name tells you everything you need to know; it's "voice" as a font convey's silliness, childish naivete, irreverence, and is far too casual for almost any purpose. And even for those it would fit with, there are far better fonts to choose from ("I did this!" being a rather good one, but there are dozens of others).
Using Comic sans is like showing up to an event in a clown costume. You wouldn't show up to a company meeting, a funeral, a wedding, or pretty much anything wearing a clown costume, so why do people typeset invitations and memos for the same in the font? The reasons are three: First, they are morons, second, morons will always manage to **** things up, and third, Comic Sans has for no good reason been part of the set of fonts shipped with windows.
I think the best summary is that if you love comic sans, you don't know very much about typography. And if you hate comic sans, you don't know much about typography, either.
Comic sans of course has it's place- 20 years ago in a single application that failed. I actually cannot even think of a good place to use it today; there are other fonts that would suite that purpose much better, and have the added benefit of not being Comic Sans.
All the diagrams use Comic Sans MS. Example:
Every single diagram uses Comic Sans. Not that I'm surprised given the subject matter.
The Java book I'm reading uses Arial Bold (I think that is what it is) in the diagrams.
2 or 3 months.A long-ass time.Oh boy, visual basic. I can barely contain my excitement. Not.
The font you and I use! I love Comic Sans! And, why does this even matter? "Oh look! Comic Sans EVERYWHERE! I shall post this on Minecraft Forums!" So? .3.
Comic Sans MS was created for MS Bob. If you don't know what that is, the best equivalent is to think of it as a version of clippy for kids in Windows 3.1. One of the people who saw an early version of Bob noticed that the speech bubbles use Times Roman for the text, and he created a font more fitting the speech bubbles of MS Bob. Thus was born Comic Sans. It sort of ironic in it's way; he created a font because Times Roman was being misused, and now that font is perhaps the most misused font in the world, being used on probably a good percentage of formal documents. I always imagine stuff written in Comic sans as ending every sentence with a little clown honk sound.
Which was fine. When things went overboard was with the inclusion of the font in Windows 95.
Anyway, what is the font for? It's for it's intended purpose- which was to give a friendly and happy appearance to a font used for speech bubbles for a animated dog. The idea is that the font of type sets the tone of the voice speaking it. The characteristics of a typeface convey a meaning beyond the actual text; That's why we use different fonts. When you create an office memo, a "Please use other door" sign, or a diagram such as the one I provided as an example, using a font like Helvetica (Or Arial, it's poor cousin), Impact, or another heavy-stroked, font would be appropriate. Type-setting it with Comic Sans is downright ****ing ridiculous. This misuse is frequent, but unjustified. The very name tells you everything you need to know; it's "voice" as a font convey's silliness, childish naivete, irreverence, and is far too casual for almost any purpose. And even for those it would fit with, there are far better fonts to choose from ("I did this!" being a rather good one, but there are dozens of others).
Using Comic sans is like showing up to an event in a clown costume. You wouldn't show up to a company meeting, a funeral, a wedding, or pretty much anything wearing a clown costume, so why do people typeset invitations and memos for the same in the font? The reasons are three: First, they are morons, second, morons will always manage to **** things up, and third, Comic Sans has for no good reason been part of the set of fonts shipped with windows.
I think the best summary is that if you love comic sans, you don't know very much about typography. And if you hate comic sans, you don't know much about typography, either.
Comic sans of course has it's place- 20 years ago in a single application that failed. I actually cannot even think of a good place to use it today; there are other fonts that would suite that purpose much better, and have the added benefit of not being Comic Sans.
I love comic sans because it's a comic book font.
Comic sans is a horrible comic book font, mainly due to it being difficult to read. I often find myself tripping over words when skimming through comic sans text in my head.
Define "everything else". Actually, name one thing that it's good for. I honestly couldn't think of any. Also, I just explained why people hate it.
I just explained where it came from. It doesn't come from comics, and it's not designed for comics.
It's not difficult to read. My handwriting is more difficult to read than Comic Sans.
Vincent Connare made the font for comic books like Watchmen and The Dark Knight Rises. It was inspired by MS Bob, it wasn't meant to be in MS Bob, it was meant for comics: http://www.webcitati...date=2009-04-19
It is very difficult to read. It is squiggly and has no serifs. If I were to give you an article in Comic Sans and the same one in Times New Roman you would get the difference. Same sort of thing with how it is harder to read all caps.
And apparently some people with dyslexia can't read it. That is interesting.
2 or 3 months.A long-ass time.Oh boy, visual basic. I can barely contain my excitement. Not.
It is quite difficult to read. The letters have no form and most of them look the same.
I guarantee you quite a lot of people find it difficult to read.
Idk why, but I don't.
It was designed for MS-Bob. If it was designed for those comics- how was he looking at them when he created the font? It wasn't, and it hasn't been used in comics.
From his web site
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Also, they used Papyrus for "Photography," heaven knows why.
I copypasta'd bc_programming's post, but changed it to comic sans. Read below, it gets annoying fast.
Comic Sans MS was created for MS Bob. If you don't know what that is, the best equivalent is to think of it as a version of clippy for kids in Windows 3.1. One of the people who saw an early version of Bob noticed that the speech bubbles use Times Roman for the text, and he created a font more fitting the speech bubbles of MS Bob. Thus was born Comic Sans. It sort of ironic in it's way; he created a font because Times Roman was being misused, and now that font is perhaps the most misused font in the world, being used on probably a good percentage of formal documents. I always imagine stuff written in Comic sans as ending every sentence with a little clown honk sound.
Which was fine. When things went overboard was with the inclusion of the font in Windows 95.
Anyway, what is the font for? It's for it's intended purpose- which was to give a friendly and happy appearance to a font used for speech bubbles for a animated dog. The idea is that the font of type sets the tone of the voice speaking it. The characteristics of a typeface convey a meaning beyond the actual text; That's why we use different fonts. When you create an office memo, a "Please use other door" sign, or a diagram such as the one I provided as an example, using a font like Helvetica (Or Arial, it's poor cousin), Impact, or another heavy-stroked, font would be appropriate. Type-setting it with Comic Sans is downright ****ing ridiculous. This misuse is frequent, but unjustified. The very name tells you everything you need to know; it's "voice" as a font convey's silliness, childish naivete, irreverence, and is far too casual for almost any purpose. And even for those it would fit with, there are far better fonts to choose from ("I did this!" being a rather good one, but there are dozens of others).
Using Comic sans is like showing up to an event in a clown costume. You wouldn't show up to a company meeting, a funeral, a wedding, or pretty much anything wearing a clown costume, so why do people typeset invitations and memos for the same in the font? The reasons are three: First, they are morons, second, morons will always manage to **** things up, and third, Comic Sans has for no good reason been part of the set of fonts shipped with windows.
I think the best summary is that if you love comic sans, you don't know very much about typography. And if you hate comic sans, you don't know much about typography, either.
Comic sans of course has it's place- 20 years ago in a single application that failed. I actually cannot even think of a good place to use it today; there are other fonts that would suite that purpose much better, and have the added benefit of not being Comic Sans.