WSJ: Comic Sans- eradicate this font

[HogNose]

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123992364819927171.html?mod=yhoofront

Typeface Inspired by Comic Books Has Become a Font of Ill Will

Vincent Connare designed the ubiquitous, bubbly Comic Sans typeface, but he sympathizes with the world-wide movement to ban it.

Mr. Connare has looked on, alternately amused and mortified, as Comic Sans has spread from a software project at Microsoft Corp. 15 years ago to grade-school fliers and holiday newsletters, Disney ads and Beanie Baby tags, business emails, street signs, Bibles, porn sites, gravestones and hospital posters about bowel cancer.

The font, a casual script designed to look like comic-book lettering, is the bane of graphic designers, other aesthetes and Internet geeks. It is a punch line: "Comic Sans walks into a bar, bartender says, 'We don't serve your type.'" On social-messaging site Twitter, complaints about the font pop up every minute or two. An online comic strip shows a gang kicking and swearing at Mr. Connare.

The jolly typeface has spawned the Ban Comic Sans movement, nearly a decade old but stronger now than ever, thanks to the Web. The mission: "to eradicate this font" and the "evil of typographical ignorance."

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[PokerPacker]

Why would someone want to ban a font?

edit: Comic Sans doesn't seem very comicy on ES.

[HogNose]

Tahoma font, ftw!

[MissU28]

comic sans is my favorite font...and when I was in my methodology courses in college, we were told to use this font when making tests and things for our students (especially our special needs students) because the "a" in comic sans is actually a normal "a", not something that would confuse students that have a hard time learning to read.

[Cheers, Beers and Mountaineers]

I don't get it. It's just a font.

[PokerPacker]

comic sans is my favorite font...and when I was in my methodology courses in college, we were told to use this font when making tests and things for our students (especially our special needs students) because the "a" in comic sans is actually a normal "a", not something that would confuse students that have a hard time learning to read.

I actually write using the computer "a".

[Slacky McSlackAss]

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[MissU28]

I actually write using the computer "a".

i don't know how to, it seems difficult

[HogNose]

I actually write using the computer "a".

i don't know how to, it seems difficult

Yeah there is no way I could write that "a". I 'm left-handed, we twist our wrists to write....it's hard enough.

comic sans is my favorite font...and when I was in my methodology courses in college, we were told to use this font when making tests and things for our students (especially our special needs students) because the "a" in comic sans is actually a normal "a", not something that would confuse students that have a hard time learning to read.

Makes sense. That is reason enough to keep it around.

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[PokerPacker]

i don't know how to, it seems difficult

rather than starting with the loop, you start with the top. Its like the letter "d" except you bend the pole back over the loop.

does anyone write the Times New Roman "g"?

[Mondizzle]

Yeah there is no way I could write that "a". I 'm left-handed, we twist our wrists to write....it's hard enough.

I'm a lefty too and I used to write the "a" that way.

As for Comic Sans, I don't see what the big freaking deal is. I used to use it all the time, but I've grown out of it and now when I see it, I kind of associate it with immaturity. I don't have a problem with it, though - this is just a weird story to me. :whoknows: