Comic Code – Monospaced interpretation of the most over-hated typeface

Re:Comic Code – Monospaced interpretation of the most over-h... by atoav on Friday July 26, 2019 @11:28AM (#20535497)

Comic Sans is a good font if you want to make the thing look like it was made by a six year old on a computer. It is the printed equivalent of a lazy note written onto a crumbled sheet of paper by somebody who yet has to drink their first coffee of the day.

Comic Sans are the equivalent of office calendar quotes like: “You don’t have to be mad to work here, but it helps”.

If this is the message you wanna get across, it is the perfect choice. For most other messages there are other more appropriate fonts (many of which can also be quite funky).

Comic Sans was my favourite font when I was 8 and made birthday invitations using it tho.

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Re:Comic Code – Monospaced interpretation of the most over-h... by ebg13 on Friday July 26, 2019 @02:42PM (#20537263)

The font doesn't bring these feelings. You do. What if the problem is just that people have decided that it's ok to get upset about a font they don't like? Maybe people should try not to do that instead.

> more appropriate fonts

There are only two things that determine the appropriateness of a font:

1) Readability

2) The aesthetic desire of the person writing the message

Nobody ever says that Comic Sans isn't readable, generally readability is considered to be one of its virtues. People just think that the aesthetic desire of the reader should triumph over the aesthetic desire of the writer, and there they are wrong.

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Re:Comic Code – Monospaced interpretation of the most over-h... by stubish on Friday July 26, 2019 @12:45PM (#20536136)

Nobody knows what font I was using when I typed this though. Better to use what is comfortable, or heck, more fun, than something boring because I'm supposed to be some kind of adult now.

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