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What if Comic Sans took over logos?

For those readers who don't speak French — but, seriously who is even reading my blog— 'sans' in French mean 'without'; in type, it means without serif, which are the little stroke in the letters. In my world, Comic Sans is ironically named because we really can go "without" it. I remember in my childhood days, when home desktop computers were happening, Comic Sans was kind of cool because honestly there wasn't much to offer in the font book. Now it has become the world's most hated font. There are so many jokes, mockery and essays against it (there is even a ban comic sans group); the reason? Comin Sans is like an indirect, kick in the groin insult to typographers. The time it takes to design a set of typeface is so strenuous and detailed, accurate and planned, the job is not haphazard, and it is what Comic Sans look like: a lazy, child job. We have no excuse now for lazy-looking fonts; yesteryear, we didn't have many fonts to begin with; todayyear, floods of excellent, I-could-cry-because-it's-so-beautiful fonts bombard our repertoire, and hand-written font look less lazy.

Comic Sans, designed by Vincent Connare, was modeled after comic books (no way!), and introduced it in Windows 95 (ah, the good old days). Connare, while on job, discovered the wrong use of Time News Roman in a software that is meant to be casual, Times News Roman seemed too serious. Thus he created the softer font with curves. Initially the results were positive, like I said, there weren't anything similar back then. Type was not not a priority at offices and homes, people never thought emotions can be projected through the choice of font.

Office workers unfortunately still use it, probably to send spam mail to each other (remember the crazy ones telling you must send it to 20 friends else you will have no love life, IN COMIC SANS). To me, Comic Sans cannot be used for text due to its lack of readability, and be seldom used as header. Children is probably the only exception; though there are much better suited fonts today.

Time to waste? Youtube: comic sans.

I'm Comic Sans, Asshole from joehollier on Vimeo.

BBC Article
Ban Comic Sans