I agree... but it is easy to weed.
Posted by Russ McMullin (Member # 5617) on :
Comic Sans doesn't bother me. It's like any other font. It's good for some things, and not for others.
Posted by bruce ward (Member # 1289) on :
if you wanna kill somehting...
kill scriptina, the font of any high end wedding place.
Also kill curlz, he chosen font of anyone with a home embroidery machine.
and lets kill ANY font the could be used as letterhead on newpapers so "out-of-towners" wont be tempted to use it in all caps of their back windows
theres my monday kill font list
Posted by Brian Oliver (Member # 2019) on :
I'm so relieved to see this. I've hated Comic Sans since I first laid eyes on it and I couldn't explain why. It was just a visceral reaction. In fact, I actually thought there was something wrong with me because of the reaction I had to this simple typeface.
Thanks for the link. I didn't know this was a world-wide phenomenon and now I feel vindicated.
Posted by ScooterX (Member # 2023) on :
I enjoyed reading the history of the font. To many people, "fonts happen". I like to know who made it, and why.
As for the font itself, I've used it. (In comics, even!)
Posted by Dan Beach (Member # 9850) on :
I don't mind it, as long as it is not too large and used in the proper format.
I just saw an ad in an auto body magazine that looks like it was made in MS Paint. Of course it was full of loud colors, helvitica and comic sans. The comic sans looked terrible how they used it . . .
Posted by Judy Pate (Member # 237) on :
I like Comic Sans when used in the proper format. Hobo is a font that's on my kill list. It's just an ugly font that is over used around here. Judy
Posted by Michael Boone (Member # 308) on :
All fonts have rights...... Im calling the Font Police on Ken.... he is being "fontist"....
Posted by Jillbeans (Member # 1912) on :
I can grow to hate almost any font which has been used to death. Especially if it has been squished, stretched, distorted, or filled with diamond plate or chisel effects. I was just saying to Karyn that Lithos is like the mullet of fonts. Some fonts just do not remain in style. Others are classic. Crillee and Serpentine are "stick a fork in me" fonts. Overused, overcooked. Comic Sans is more like gummy macaroni. Love....Jill
Posted by David Thompson (Member # 2395) on :
I hate the fact that the word "Font" is even in my vocabulary!
I believe there was a time, long ago, when you actually had to have some talent in order to paint a sign or letter a truck.
Now we have computer buffoons claiming to have enough knowlegde to make fun or complain about a typestyle? Are'nt these the same people who think Old English, done in all upper case is cool looking?
[ April 21, 2009, 11:21 AM: Message edited by: David Thompson ]
Posted by Todd Gill (Member # 2569) on :
Comic Sans does not personally bother me. I use it whenever I am doing a cartoon bubble.... like when I doctor up a photo of OP.
I also occasionally use it for listing drafting type of specs.
I don't use it for general body copy or headlines or logos.
This, like all fonts has it's useful place....well, some fonts don't have a place at all. I too would put HOBO on the cancel list.
Posted by Terry Bull Sign & Custom (Member # 1876) on :
Im surprised nobody's mentioned Algerian the most hideous overused font on every computer They stretch it.. squash it but whatever is done to it it still ends up lookin sh...t and to use it for trucks ...what is wrong with these people
Posted by Michael Gene Adkins (Member # 882) on :
I was thinking of Algerian first thing!!!
I can live with almost any bad or overused font, even crillee and serpentine and whatever.
But that Algerian font .... ARRRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!
I was forced to letter an entire truck door (I mean I filled that door up from edge to edge) recently with Algerian because the guy's wife had to have it.
Didn't bother me one bit to get paid for it!!! But I wouldn't lay claim to it!!!
Posted by Cam Bortz (Member # 55) on :
University Roman is another one that makes me gag. People like it because it looks "old fashioned", until I show them what a REAL vintage letter style looks like.
Posted by Ray Rheaume (Member # 3794) on :
Comic Sans is aptly named. I have never seen it in a comic book. Comic letterers don't leave that much of a mess behind them.
AND WOULD SOMEONE PLEASE rename Arial to something that starts with a "Z" so the quicky sticky shop has to look at the rest of the fonts they got with their cutter!!!!
Just sayin' Rapid
Posted by KARYN BUSH (Member # 1948) on :
brush script makes me hurl...especially when its arc-d....aaaack, i think i just vomitted in my mouth.
Posted by Cam Bortz (Member # 55) on :
Another font I avoid like the plague is Times Roman. So many designers have been taught that it's a "classic" - I find it cold, stilted and mechanical. Almost anything from the Caslon, Bookman or Garamond families have more style, integrity, and life to them.
How have your tastes in letterstyles changed over the years? For example, I used to love Goudy Bold; now I can't even look at it. Posted by Brent Logan (Member # 6587) on :
Another one that's been in style is Papyrus. Some of the geniuses that sell signs like to tell customers that it can be made into a 12" channel letter. Posted by Russ McMullin (Member # 5617) on :
Even Papyrus looks good in certain situations. Unfortunately, most customers choose to use it for all of the other situations.
Posted by Kerry Hargraves (Member # 6837) on :
I thought I was the only one who was sick of Papyrus. I really like some of the general letter forms but I'm going to scream the next time I have to paint it and it's shadow onto an awning.
Posted by Mark Baty (Member # 9776) on :
Next time a customer wants to select their favorite font; tell them yes--if I can pick out your next automobile.
Mark Baty "Color Guru"
Sometimes I wonder why they come to us.
Posted by Lynda Yoder (Member # 7340) on :
Is there anybody else out there that didn't know what font meant? I thought they were alphabet styles. Geez. Lynda
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People like it because it looks "old fashioned", until I show them what a REAL vintage letter style looks like.
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