{"id":5152,"date":"2010-06-17T09:50:52","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T14:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=5152"},"modified":"2010-06-17T09:50:52","modified_gmt":"2010-06-17T14:50:52","slug":"on-the-sins-of-comic-sans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=5152","title":{"rendered":"On the Sins of Comic Sans"},"content":{"rendered":"

I like fonts. I have many many fonts. Fonts are cool.<\/p>\n

Comic Sans, however, is not cool.<\/p>\n

Todd Klein, perhaps the greatest letterer comic books has ever seen, addressed its myriad problems<\/a> in a blog post about a year ago: “Comic Sans is nothing more than a way to label yourself clueless about comics, fonts, and good design.”<\/p>\n

And, there have been documenataries on the problems of Comic Sans.<\/p>\n

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Why do people use it? Just because “it’s better than Times New Roman” is not a reason. Times New Roman is awful<\/i>; I won’t work in it.<\/p>\n

And it’s not like Comics Sans isn’t aware of the hate people have for it, though Comic Sans really don’t care<\/a> what people think of it: “I’m not just a font. I am a force of motherfucking nature and I will not rest until every uptight armchair typographer cock-hat like you is surrounded by my lovable, comic-book inspired, sans-serif badassery.”<\/p>\n

Comic Sans is just an awful, awful font.<\/p>\n

That’s not to say that handwriting fonts don’t have a time and a place. I use Emerald City Fontwerks<\/a>‘s “augie” for all my handwriting typography needs. That it looks not dissimilar to my own handwriting is a point in its favor. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Comic Sans? Blech. :sick:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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