The accident known as Comic Sans

by Robert Mohns - January 22, 2006 / 11:04am View more articles

If you've been following the iMarc blog (not iMac, mea culpa), you may have noticed that we hate Comic Sans. It couldn't possibly have been meant as a serious, real typeface, could it? It's awful. Who would do that on purpose?

Turns out it was all an accident. Sorta. See Vincent Connare's write-up of why he created Comic Sans, and why it's part of Windows now.

(Credit for spotting this goes to Fred. Thanks, Fred!)

But, contrary to popular opinion, Comic Sans does have a purpose. One of our developers uses it on a hideous green background as his default browser text style. Why? Because it ensures that he'll never, ever forget to apply proper page styling to anything he's working on. The mistake would just be too painful...

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by ChrisW75 #

on January 25, 2006 / 12:39am

I don't understand why people hate comic sans so much. Really it's the morons that use it at innapropriate times (like in corporate technical documentation.. Why you fools? WHYYY?). The font itself isn't that bad, it's a soft comfortable round edged font, it's quite and unassuming, and definitely has its place, especially as Vincent Connaires article says, in things aimed at children.

by apeiron #

on January 29, 2006 / 8:34am

Ugh. At least it's good to see that I have company in my hatred of that font. And yeah, I know the pain of receiving corporate documentation with that god-awful font. We have electronic literature from a manufacturer (who shall remain nameless, as I do want to remain employed) that was entirely in Comic Sans. You can be sure that the first thing I did when I received it was to change the font to something that wouldn't make my eyes bleed like Visual Basic does.

The sad thing is that I'm the only person in the office who knows Comic Sans from TNR without MS Word to tell me (not that MS Word is bad or anything).

by EMPIRE #

on February 1, 2006 / 4:11pm

Yes, that's right, is the most horrible font in the FONT WORLD, i can't imagine the reason for the creation of cOMIC sANS, maybe the creator take too much beers one night and when he wake up found that thing the screen,

Well, see you...

Kill Comic Sans

by Dave Tufts #

on February 2, 2006 / 9:54am

BanComicSans.com - putting the "sans" in comic sans.

Enjoy!

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