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Why do people hate comic sans?

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Taxexemption

Member
I like it but it's unprofessional. There is an entire industry of consultants that tell people stuff like what font to use. At my last job our consultants determined that for our business the ideal font was calibri, and so I spent a few weeks changing everything that we were working on to Calibri, and all of our templates for work we would start in the future to calibri. To me calibri looks kinda weird, I'd been using Times New Roman forever and I liked that, but alternatively I didn't mind arial. But whatever, I'd get used to any font if I looked at it long enough.


I work a lot with financial statements, I don't think we would want to use comic sans because it's kind of a "happy"/"cheery" font. You need a no nonsense font for numbers. Also being someone that looks at numbers all day sometimes you find meaning in them, and that's gonna get distracting with comic sans "Actually, when you put the following numbers together in this combination it looks like a.... Oh!?!"
 
Yams

Yams

Member
Blade2.0 said:
I used to love that font. thought it looked good, but the internet hates it. Someone educate me.
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Designers hate Comic Sans because it is almost always misapplied and used in contexts that do not warrant it or make sense. Type designers create fonts for specific purposes. No typeface has been more misapplied than Comic Sans.
 
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Lrnex

Member
Nothing wrong with it at all, just people have been taught to hate it and see it as unprofessional, so thus everyone comes to think of it as unprofessional, so you would never use it unless you wanted to appear childish and unprofessional.
It’s a victim of association.
 
Nymphae

Nymphae

Banned
As I've said before in typography threads, it's just fashionable to hate it.

I've always thought it achieved it's design goals exceptionally well, and was simply a victim of being overused (makes you wonder why such a universally despised typeface would be selected so often...)
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It achieves it's design goals and is/was a highly popular font not because it looks like shit, but precisely because it does it's job well and fit the more casual vibe people wanted for their specific goals. It's a casual handwriting font that is meant to look distinct from typical serif and sans serif fonts available at the time.
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It's just often improperly chosen for the desired application. but that's hardly the fault of the typeface itself. It is a great typeface.
 
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Tesseract

Tesseract

Banned
Gashtronomy said:
Why? Autism

It's just a font, this isn't American Psycho
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Rest

Rest

All these years later I still chuckle at what a fucking moron that guy is.
Internet memes.

Comic Sans is fine.
 
Stiflers Mom

Stiflers Mom

Banned
I remember when we still used Skype chat for team meetings.
Those kind of serious discussions were a lot more fun when you changed the default font to Comic Sans and made it size 18.

It's like instant hilarity when your boss talks to you in big Comic Sans.
 
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Pejo

Pejo

Gold Member
OP, try this. Write something that's really important to you. Maybe something you feel strongly about, or maybe your last will and testament. Then highlight all of the text, make the font size 20+ and switch it to Comic Sans and print it out.

Tell me how it makes you feel.
 
Kadayi

Kadayi

Banned
As a Graphic Designer I wouldn't say I hate it, but aside from Prepping Cunth Cunth Resume for Head of Diversity at Twitter (his request of font for the record) I can't say it's a Font I'd ever elect to use.
 
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Breakage

Member
It reminds me of primary or elementary school worksheets, posters, etc.

There's just something very child-like about it.
 
John Day

John Day

Member
Highly overused for years, and as someone mentioned, from a design point, it’s been missused a lot. Then again, your average user isn’t a designer, so i lean more with the former.
 
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