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The Ultimate Epidemic
Vixx
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COMIC SANS
(apparently?)
http://bancomicsans.com/home.html
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123992364819927171.html?mod=yhoofront
(seriously what the hell people have way too much time on their hands)
Let us discuss FONTS and the dumb things people say about them.
(apparently?)
http://bancomicsans.com/home.html
In 1995 Microsoft released the font Comic Sans originally designed for comic book style talk bubbles containing informational help text. Since that time the typeface has been used in countless contexts from restaurant signage to college exams to medical information. These widespread abuses of printed type threaten to erode the very foundations upon which centuries of typographic history are built.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123992364819927171.html?mod=yhoofront
Typefaces convey meaning, typographers say. Helvetica is an industry standard, plain and reliable. Times New Roman is classic. Depending on your point of view, Comic Sans is fun, breezy, silly or vulgar and lazy. It can be "analogous to showing up for a black-tie event in a clown costume," warns the Ban Comic Sans movement's manifesto. The font's original name was Comic Book, but Mr. Connare thought that didn't sound like a font name. He used Sans (short for sans-serif) because most of the lettering, except for the uppercase I, doesn't have serifs, the small features at the end of strokes.
Ban Comic Sans was conceived in the fall of 1999, when Holly Sliger was a senior at the Herron School of Art and Design in Indianapolis, studying typography and graphic design. Designing a museum gallery guide for a children's hands-on artifact exhibit, Ms. Sliger says she was horrified when her bosses told her to use Comic Sans. She told them it was a cliché, and printed out a list of other typefaces she thought better suited the project. They insisted on Comic Sans.
"It was like hell for me," she says. "It was everywhere, like an epidemic."
In the midst of the project, she met her future husband, Dave Combs, at synagogue one Saturday. He was a recent college graduate working as a graphic designer, and she knew he would sympathize. "This is horrible," he remembers saying. She says, "That's when I knew he's the guy I would marry." The couple did wed a year later and continued to gripe about the font.
(seriously what the hell people have way too much time on their hands)
Let us discuss FONTS and the dumb things people say about them.
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Everyone knows that Times New Roman or Georgia is the best
Or are we complaining about the font type complaining about the people?
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woo boy I'm workin blue tonight
Helvetica would like to have a word with you.
calibri is so much better than any other font
Times New Roman has class, Helvetica thinks that its square glasses make it cool
I'd like to see the Helvetica movie one day
Choose IMPACT
and if it works then it works
so this is pretty retarded
Tumblr blargh
Only the venereal kinds your mother has.
it's like a five second search in ohnorobot
RAP BATTLE
uh, so we can go sign that petition.
Obviously.
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There we go
A wild GEORGIA appears
GEORGIA used SERIFS
It's super effective, and not atrocious!
not retarded internet people
but we all know how this goes
I really want to watch that helvetica documentary though, it's in my netflix queue.
I can appreciate cool fonts, I may have to show some spiffy ones tomorrow.
it's basically a child molester's font
but its not
HOW DARE YOU, GOOD SIR
I enjoyed it
I'm also a gigantic nerd when it comes to printing
like i ain't actually offended by it
i'm pretty...ambivalent about the whole thing
if this man says comic sans is fine
then its fine
Not comics, god no