I live in South Africa and am forced to study a national language called Afrikaans, which is derived from Dutch but most similar to Flemish. Almost EVERY textbook is printed ENTIRELY in Comic Sans. It is horrible, I have never been able to use these textbooks. DOWN WITH COMIC SANS! LONG LIVE THE REVOLUTION!
comic sans does for imagination what George Bush does for intellegence. Ban this most evil font and let it be known that there are free font resources out there! You never need to use comic sans again!
I've always had a dislike for seeing this font used on webpages. It's dorky and childish when more suitable fonts would look more... professional. I support this mostly because of an annoyance grown to a point of telling people explicitly NOT to use this font on graphics. (Times New Roman, Verdana, Arial even! So much nicer...)
Currently I'm following a course at my university where a professor uses a book printed in comic sans. Imagine the horror I'm going through while studying...
Yesterday at work a client told me to use that horrid typeface in my design... She told me I really like comic sans I use it all the time .......... sigh
Comic Sans is overly used in formal situations. I will never forget when an office coworker used it for a funeral notice. While informal types have their place, Comic Sans is so hopelessly sullied by inappropriate uses that render its original intent moot. Ban Comic Sans!
I hate comic sans - working in a large school system I see it used and abused far to often. For some reason even our HS mission statement is written in Comic Sans! Ugh!
So necessary. I was thrilled to hear Jimmy Buffet wrote a novel (A Salty Piece of Land) until I picked it up and, to my horror, the title was in font-that-shall-not-be-na med. Somewhere there's a graphic designer that deserves to die. I haven't touched the book since.
I once was asked to help some people in creating PowerPoint presentations for songs. After some basic font dos and don'ts, they told me they believed comic sans was the most readable font and they were going to use it for all the songs. My advice stopped there.
This font is particularly misused in contexts where childish humour is to be presented. It's not appropriate to use a crappy font because the context is childish. Presentation != Content.
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Awful font. Especially when used in Cambridge University's Physics Department's notes for Part II (3rd year undergrad) course on Particle and Nuclear Physics...
