"Typefaces convey meaning, typographers say. Helvetica is an industry standard, plain and reliable. Times New Roman is classic. Depending on your point of view, Comic Sans is fun, breezy, silly or vulgar and lazy. It can be 'analogous to showing up for a black-tie event in a clown costume,' warns the Ban Comic Sans movement's manifesto."
Sunday, April 19, 2009
A Font Story
Funny story about a movement to ban a font that designers feel is too cliche and overused. Good, interesting read to me, because I was just wondering the other day about how fonts are created, who designs them, etc. This is about Comic Sans, and the new group that's seeking now to ban it. Here's a quote:
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Being in the computer industry, I always see elistisms of different sorts, whether it be text editors, programming/scripting languages, and now fonts. As with the others, no single font fits every need or situation. But come on, people of the Ban Comic Sans crowd, the font is easy to read, more so than Times New Roman. Hey, let's just be progressive here and force everyone to use a fixed-width font, like Courier.
Ok, I step down off of my soapbox.
my $0.02,
chris
Oh, and that wasn't really directed at Scott, either. Just a pet peevy... :-P
I use it sometimes for handouts and the like, but I didn't know that was what "Comic" referred to. Thanks for passing along.
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