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I say we implement a ban on stupid causes.
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body {
font-family: "Comic Sans MS", cursive;
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why not we are crying for every other issue 2 people find in common.
Captions and copyright notices
Normal body text
Labels in graphs and charts
Signs (Yeah, near me there is a shop sign done in Comic Sans!)
If you use it to suggest something hand written (there are nicer choices - but Comic Sans is very readable), a note, part of a comic layout - well then Comic Sans is just fine. Like a lot of things, a little Comic Sans goes a long way.
We Mac users often have too much time on our hands... Comes with using a more productive computer.
{not joking}
DON'T USE IT!
and leave the rest of us alone.
Every time I get a new computer, I go to my 'Fonts' folder and delete it so I don't have to look at it. However, I still have to put up with it every once in a while, like when people use it on images.
Call me boring, but I prefer to stick to fonts like Times New Roman, Book Antiqua, Garamond, etc.
- by infohighwayroadkill May 3, 2009 10:47 AM PDT
- My recollection, which goes back to pre-DOS, is that Comic Sans bears a close resemblance to Pencil Point, a somewhat lighter font that went the way of the Atari. Comic Sans is a clear, highly legible, font that suggests hand printing, a laborious form of communication that is almost extinct now.
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- by infohighwayroadkill May 3, 2009 1:58 PM PDT
- By my estimate, there must be more than TEN THOUSAND free TTF fonts available via the internet for PC-type computers. I already have strong negative opinions about many of them. However, that still leaves me more than Nine Thousand to choose from, without losing my cool.
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