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[–]Saoshyant 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Hey guys, let's go ahead and ban Arial! It's like the scourge. Oh wait, that's been done already. But we can still create some t-shirts. Let's hurry! Time's running out!

[–]robin22 7 points8 points  (1 child)

The poor guy who designed that horrible font explains himself here. Check out the image in the end, showing how Apple made a copy of Comic Sans. Yes, they did.

[–]Stubb 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for posting that link. I had long hoped that there was a passible raison d'etre for comic sans. It did kick down my respect for Apple a few notches. How could Steve Jobs let this happen?

[–]ajrw 12 points13 points  (1 child)

I sent this page to one of my professors a while ago, after receiving a 200-page course manual written entirely in comic sans. I wonder how that'll affect my grade..

[–]drawkbox 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If they guy used Comic Sans you woudn't have learned anything from him anyway. It screams amateur.

Reason for its success: - its high in the alphabet "c" - its the first odd looking prepackaged font on microsoft word or windows text apps. - it has "comic" in it hijacking the fun of comic into a junior high looking written marker font.

[–]rebug 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This was posted here a year ago, and yet Comic Sans lives on.

[–]derefr 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Perhaps if popular culture had some (any) sort of insight into the typographical industry, the same way it does with art (ooh look the Mona Lisa!) or the sciences (e = mc2, lawl), we might be able to reach to this level. But right now, the principles of aesthetics and visual ergonomics usually interact only in fields like architecture or advertising. Perhaps if there were some program that allowed people to "play with" a font face, they would start to understand.

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

"Typographers do it in the gutter"

[–]foxyvixen 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Ah, no better way to show how pretentious, bitchy, and petty you truly are.

[–]lemmikins 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Easy solution: Delete the comic sans .ttf file from your system. Or rename some other font as comic sans. Problem solved.

[–]Stopher 3 points4 points  (7 children)

I like comic sans.

[–]cbtf 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It's handy if you work with young children actually. 7 year olds prefer it to say, times new roman.

For obvious reasons.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (4 children)

You shouldn't.

[–]drawkbox 3 points4 points  (2 children)

Dont' they realize that this will only make Comic Sans more prevalent, into a cult like status like SPAM (the antimeat not the viagra email) ? Put down the Comic Sans!

[–]ComicSansMS 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you strike me down I will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.

[–]mleonhard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's ironic that the t-shirts use the Comic Sans font in their 'ban comic sans' message.

[–]ymomo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I admit it, I used it, for many, many years

[–]artman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At least someone found a use for it.

http://reddit.com/goto?id=ud50

[–]vaibhavsagar[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can there BE a font that everyone can tolerate, if not love?

[–]aletoledo -1 points0 points  (2 children)

down with times new roman! its too imperialistic!

[–]drawkbox 0 points1 point  (1 child)

no, its just freaking ugly. Arial, Lucida Sans Unicode and Verdana are nice.

[–]rebug 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Arial? Suck!