Is Comic Sans only for Girls?

[Canadamus Prime]

Why the hell does everyone hate Comic Sans?

Because it's overused, even in places where it isn't appropriate to use Comic-sans.

Truthfully, the only place where comic-sans is appropriate is for the dialogue in comic books/graphic novels.

 

[Mylinkay Asdara]

It's easy to read. It's also slightly larger lettering in comparison to other fonts in the same pt. values.

Who cares?

I am - very occasionally - jarred by certain 'out there' fonts when reading something, or surprised by the font something is printed in, but to devote the amount of time and energy that has gone into the campaign against a single type of font here is just... a little ludicrous to me, to be honest.

 

[Sizzle Montyjing]

I think this thread is focusing to heavily on comic sans, not the fact that my dad said it was only for women...

It's like people read the word 'Comic Sans' and just go off on a rant.

 

[Steve the Pocket]

Also, your dad may not be aware that in web development you can really only reliably use fonts that other people have installed on their machines short of making the content an image. Since the above is quite often the case, A way to work with this is to pick a main font that you want to use and allow it to also default to others that are more common. So in reality you may not have the font installed that the person creating the web page even uses. Now is that because the person is female or because your dad hasn't bothered to install more interesting fonts?

False. Actually, embedding fonts into a website is very easy and supported by almost every browser still in use. Internet Explorer has actually been able to do it since 1998. Not enough people know this, sadly.

Even so, though, "interesting" is overrated. Nearly all books are printed in the same one or two serif fonts because people figured out that it works really well for readability. And on the Internet, the same is true of sans-serif fonts like Arial and Verdana. Maybe they aren't "fun" or "exciting", but it's a website for freaking bus times.

I think all the hate for Comic Sans (and for Papyrus for that matter) just comes across as snobbery.

Yes, yes, we just picked a couple fonts out of a hat to pretend to hate on to make ourselves feel better. And Twilight is actually just as much a piece of quality literature as, say, Jane Eyre. Look, just because most people can't tell the difference doesn't mean they're right.

I think this is relevant.
http://s3.amazonaws.com/kym-assets/photos/images/newsfeed/000/153/847/comicsans.jpg?1311627475[/QUOTE]
[i]Very[/i] relevant! Looking at it close up makes it really clear what's wrong with it. The letters aren't even the same size, or tilt, or anything. It looks more like a child's handwriting than professional comic book lettering. And then they sucked whatever "fun" it had out of it by making all the lines the same width and cap. I think they literally traced over hand lettering with a vector program's pen tool. Basically they put no effort into it at all.

EDIT: And I can see why. Apparently it was designed for a program called "Microsoft Bob" [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Bob] that was like Clippy from MS Word turned into a full user interface. It looked like the interface for a kids' educational program, which is probably why they abandoned the project. Back then, text on a screen would have been all blocky and pixelated. And I admit it doesn't look so bad that way:

[img]http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/2166/comicsans.gif

But technology marches on [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TechnologyMarchesOn], as they say, so now its flaws are plainly visible, both in print and in high-resolution screens.

 

[Gustavo S. Buschle]

I think this is just a case of infectious Internet "racism".

 

[Spambot 3000]

It's a font, just a font, why anyone here treats it like the spawn of Hitler is beyond me.

 

[Cain_Zeros]

(Although saying that, you'd never see me using Comic Sans for a comic, I prefer something more along the lines of CreativeBlock or anything else you can find on DAfont.com)

Completely off topic, but I fucking love DAfont! So many amazing fonts (or, as amazing as fonts get)!

Anyway, enough sounding like a DAfont ad. Comic Sans isn't really gender-specific. It's rounded, whimsical, and silly, and even then there are better fonts for the job, even among the default fonts.