Poll: Comic Sans: what do you think of it.

[HK_01]

I don't really care about what font people use and to be honest, I don't know why anybody does. It just doesn't seem like something that's important enough to get up in arms about.
It's not even that widespread in its use.

Edit: Mostly I don't even notice it.

 

[Wintermoot]

don,t like it I also hate Times New roman it looks old fashioned I prefer Verdana/tahoma myself

 

[8a88leph1sh]

Hey man, in your rush to be mean I think you missed my whole post. You don't gotta get moody just to be aware of what's good and bad. Try rereading my post, it's up there in the quote, educate yourself! You'll thank me when you see how silly your hate sounds. You'll be like "Aw, I was but a child then, unaware of the ridiculously obvious ignorance stereotype i fulfilled."

The only one who's moody is the one who's trying to use their job as leverage.


The only thing I'm 'hating' is pointless spazzing about pointless pixels on pointless screens.

And man, on a different note, what's with those astronomers making such a big deal about space? I'm never gonna go to space, so everything they say is worthless and anyone who'd spend the tiniest bit of energy on it is just pathetic.

Difference between Comic Sans and Space: Space has given us technology and knowledge way beyond what we were able to fathom. Most of the modern composites we take for granted are a result of the space program, the satellites that carry your TV and navigation, possibly radio too, medical advances, better mapping, weather forecasts, all of that shit possible because of astronomers, rocket scientists and the like.

Comic Sans? It's just letters on a page. The most it's done for us is annoy a small subset with priority issues.

And mathematicians! What a bunch of losers to care about something as trivial as imaginary numbers, amirite?

Now you're just being silly. Mathematics have a noted and direct effect on everything you touch, including the keyboard you're using, the internet you're sending your messages over, everything. Without it you'd be far too concerned with not becoming dinner at Mr and Mrs Sabretooth's to get all fussed over a font.

And graphic designers too! Being able to figure out what's subtlety and clearly appealing (hint: it's not a certain font) to a given audience is such a useless skill to have in our socially-driven culture!

I love how you're comparing graphic design to astronomy, like it validates your points or something. Don't be silly, don't be arrogant. Your job is a worthless one long-term, existing only because society allows it to exist. it carries no authority.

I feel you man, we should hang out and go find someone asking if they're "the only one to think this" and explain how logically they can't be.

I would sooner deep fry my joy department than hang out with someone who spazzes out over a font.


I'm not going to debate it further. It's clear to me that you simply will not see how irrational you are slamming comic sans like it's Ebola, none of your arrogant "Look at me, I'm a graphical designer, I'm some sort of font police" blabbering is going to convince me otherwise. Matter of fact, the more you wave your job around like it's some kind of seal of authority over fonts the less seriously I take you!


On a somewhat related note, if I could, I would have typed this whole post in Comic Sans just to annoy you. Guess it's a good thing Escapist doesn't support [font] tags, aye?

Do you think your life has not been influenced by design? Then you should never use a webpage again because a designer spent a lot of time picking out every color and typeface. You should never play a game, watch a movie, or read a book because they are all different media of DESIGN. Don't wear t-shirts with any type or images. Don't buy any products with logos or any sort of branding, that was all designed. In fact, you should probably stop using your computer. Yes, an engineer made it run. But a designer made you capable of using it. The way it looks, every icon, the very PC interface you interact with had to be designed to be user friendly.

EVERY profession exists because society "allows" it. Hence why the U.S. space program now consists of our astronauts shoving their thumbs out in the direction of passing Russian shuttles. Our society no longer deemed its usefulness to be worth the cost.

On a somewhat related note your mouth is talking. You should look to that.

 

[Hobonicus]

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The point I was making was that you use your ignorance like a virtue, as if lack of education or sense of context could be undermined by your self proclaimed common sense.

There's so much that you clearly take for granted, which would be fine if you could admit it, but instead you mock something you don't understand. You're like Jack Thompson in that regard, and your ego stubbornly prevents you from believing that you don't have an answer for everything that's not a science.

Design is not pointless in the least. Obviously you know that, but you choose to ignore it because it isn't objectively logical to you. Society gives meaning to everything, and design has a huge part in our world that you can't simply avoid. Everything is meaningless until we give it purpose, and we give graphic design huge amounts of purpose. And you already know all this, knowledge of culture is basic stuff, but you're playing dumb to fulfill that ridiculous coldly robotic personality some people try so hard to have.

You keep putting words into my mouth and pretending it's an argument. I'm not "spazzing" out about Comic Sans, I just said it's a bad font. And it is. Hell, I've spent more effort replying to you than I ever have complaining about Comic Sans. Like I said before, you can be aware of something's quality without getting upset.

I'd gladly be mature about this, and the fact that you took time to reply means you're not just out to be a jerk, but your argument reads like you have no sense of scale or context. Like everything exists in extremes of objectivity for you, and that there could be no answers that you couldn't reason out yourself. You aren't fooling anybody. Those of us who aren't so uptight that we'd pretend to not understand an entire side of society see your arguments as utterly ridiculous and childish.

"It's just a font" is a cop out answer. You know that, we know that.