Comic Sans, Font of Ill Will 503
Kelson writes "The Wall Street Journal profiles Vincent Connare, designer of the web's most-hated font, Comic Sans. Not surprisingly, the font's origins go back to Microsoft Bob, where he saw a talking dog speaking in Times New Roman. Connare pulled out Watchmen and The Dark Knight Returns for reference, and created the comic book-style font over the next week. 'Mr. Connare has looked on, alternately amused and mortified, as Comic Sans has spread from a software project at Microsoft Corp. 15 years ago to grade-school fliers and holiday newsletters, Disney ads and Beanie Baby tags, business emails, street signs, Bibles, porn sites, gravestones and hospital posters about bowel cancer. ... The jolly typeface has spawned the Ban Comic Sans movement, nearly a decade old but stronger now than ever, thanks to the Web."
Font-Snob (Score:4, Funny)
Copyright thehickcoder 2009
Re:Similar to Windows hate? (Score:5, Funny)
It is easily readable
Yes. Compared to, say, Wingdings.
Re:Similar to Windows hate? (Score:5, Funny)
Comic Sans itself isn't a bad font. It is easily readable, and more than anything else, that is the best measure of a font.
Just because it is so popular people hate it. It's like people hating on pop stars, Windows, and Kraft Parmesan cheese.
I AGREE. PRO TIP: THE MOST EASILY READABLE SUBSET OF ANY FONT IS THE CAPITAL LETTERS. YOU SHOULD ALWAYS USE CAPS TO MAKE YOUR MESSAGES EASIER TO READ.
Re:Font-Snob (Score:2, Funny)
There is only one set of fonts for grownups: the Computer modern series from TeX. Everything else is for the computer barely-literate.
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Not only e-mails (Score:5, Funny)
awesome font! (Score:5, Funny)
I'm going to start using it at work, often. it fits. I hope it infuriates many.
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"B4|\| (0/\/\1( 54|\|5"
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Re:I asked a professional graphic artist . . . (Score:5, Funny)
Of course, she's going out with you... So there's no accounting for taste.
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[citation needed]
That pretty much sums up religion in a nutshell.
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Is there a type of alphabet soup that comes in comic sans? I would have a wonderfully horrible idea of making GP post first die, and then turn in his grave:
1. Comic Sans alphabet noodles.
2. Ketchup.
3. Kraft parmesan.
4. OH TEH HORRORS. ^^
Re:Similar to Windows hate? NOPE (Score:5, Funny)
Hey, it was a job as a beach lifeguard, you insensitive clod!
Re:Similar to Windows hate? (Score:4, Funny)
Didn't they even have space for an extra upper-case 'G'?
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the reason they went on to use only capitals? apparently you can't write the name of the christian deity in all lowercase.
Yes you can. It's not like he's going to strike you down with lighting bolts or something.
god
See, nothing ha
A much worse example (Score:5, Funny)
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You'd need an upper-case 'Y', 'H' and 'W' for YHWH.
Interestingly, whilst this is often pronounced "Yahweh" or "Jehovah", written Hebrew doesn't actually supply any indication of what vowels should be inserted between the consonants. This means that the Abrahamic deity might actually have been called "Yahoo Wahoo" by His parents (or, seeing as this is a tech site - "Yahoo! Wahoo!").
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You're just the kind of pedantic purist he was complaining about. Expecting people to use words with their actual meanings is totally unreasonable.
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Dude, you forgot the NO CARRIER part.
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That's motion towards, isn't it, boy?
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And "B" for Baal.
And "C" for Ceridwen.
And "D" for Demeter.
And "E" for Ereskigal.
And "F" for Frigg.
And "G" for Ganesha.
And "H" for Horus.
And "I" for Ishtar.
And "J" for Juno.
And "K" for Krishna.
And "L" for Loki.
And "M" for Mithras.
And "N" for Neptune.
And "O" for Osiris.
And "P" for Pan.
And "Q" for Quetzalcoatl.
And "R" for Rama.
And "S" for Shen-Yi.
And "T" for Tiamat.
And "U" for Uzume.
And "V" for Vulcan.
And "W" for Xi Wang-mu.
And "X" for the other bit of Xi Wang-mu.
"Y" for Yhwh, as you say, and the other bit of Shen-Yi
and "Z" for "Zeus".
Talk about a loose specification? "The Deity"?
Re:Comic Sans has a unique place-Informal Sans (Score:3, Funny)
If you want to be informal, why not just say "fuck?"
The man who denied God (not a flame, but humor) (Score:4, Funny)
[paraphrased from an old hindu parable]
dargaud was a man who denied the Deity.
Every time that something happened to him, good or bad, he reminded himself "There is no god". Everyday he repeated these words, and prided himself in his knowledge and derided those who sought guidance or succor from the heavens.
dargaud then died, and was immediately taken into the presence of the Deity.
Why am I here?, he wondered, I always denied your existence!
You are here because you kept me in your mind constantly!
Re:Similar to Windows hate? (Score:3, Funny)
All I said was "This kipper is good enough for Jehovah!"
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So you went to the Pirate Bay to get a font for a program you also may or may not have gotten off the Pirate Bay, so that you could forge a document that would allow you to park illegally. And you're mentioning it non-anonymously on the Internet.
I don't know whether I want to applaud or facepalm.