GUYS! COME QUICK! I FOUND THE SON OF A BITCH WHO INVENTED COMIC SANS!

[Howard Alan Treesong]

Obligatory Ban Comic Sans link.

[The Fake Shemp]

 

[Ichirou]

Uhhh

I use comic sans in all my lesson handouts.

[The Fake Shemp]

God, you are useless, fleshling.

[The Sceneman]

I love this cartoon

[Howard Alan Treesong]

Uhhh

I use comic sans in all my lesson handouts.

DIE IN A FIRE.

Comic Sans is the nadir of human civilization.

[Ichirou]

I dunno, it gives off a friendly vibe that other fonts lack.

[Fresh Prince]

Uhhh

I use comic sans in all my lesson handouts.

Comic sans is okay for text in speech bubbles and such. I'm sick of seeing Arial though. Use other sans fonts n00bs.

[Human Snorenado]

lol typography fegs

[Ichirou]

Name me some other decent fonts that look nice and not too authoritarian.  Fonts that come in the basic Word package, 'cuz that's all I have access to.  Comic sans fulfills that need for me, and I don't get why there's apparently so much hate for it.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

I dunno, it gives off a friendly vibe that other fonts lack.

Now you're just being disingenuous.

Right?

I mean, no real human being actually thinks that (except for 50-year-old cat lady secretaries).

You do realize that there are fonts that don't come pre-installed with Windows, right?

Thousands of fonts?

Each and every one of which is better than Comic Sans, the single worst thing to happen to type in the past 500 years?

STEPS TO RECOVERY

First, go kill yourself.

Second, be reborn as a person who isn't a total typographic douchebag fuckmonkey.

Third, go to this font foundry and download dozens of "fun" fonts that are also creative, easy to read, and pleasing to the eye.

Fourth, enjoy your new life as a someone who isn't an r-tard Special Olympian that gets his rocks off releasing B4 handout Tijuana Bibles of his Gutenberg corpse-rape.

Basically, IF YOU USE COMIC SANS IN YOUR HANDOUTS YOU DESERVE TO BE SKULL-FUCKED BY A PORCUPINE. NAMBLA has a better logical argument that people who think Comic Sans is "fun."

[Vizzys]

^^

[Madrun Badrun]

I dunno, it gives off a friendly vibe that other fonts lack.

Now you're just being disingenuous.

Right?

I mean, no real human being actually thinks that (except for 50-year-old cat lady secretaries).

You do realize that there are fonts that don't come pre-installed with Windows, right?

Thousands of fonts?

Each and every one of which is better than Comic Sans, the single worst thing to happen to type in the past 500 years?

STEPS TO RECOVERY

First, go kill yourself.

Second, be reborn as a person who isn't a total typographic douchebag fuckmonkey.

Third, go to this font foundry and download dozens of "fun" fonts that are also creative, easy to read, and pleasing to the eye. pleasant to the eye.

Fourth, enjoy your new life as a someone who isn't an r-tard Special Olympian who gets his rocks off releasing B4 handout Tijuana Bibles of his Gutenberg corpse-rape.

Basically, IF YOU USE COMIC SANS IN YOUR HANDOUTS YOU DESERVE TO BE SKULL-FUCKED BY A PORCUPINE. NAMBLA has a better logical argument that people who think Comic Sans is "fun."

I never knew fear from the internet until this day.  You people scare me.  It's a font. 

[Howard Alan Treesong]

Comic Sans is typographic mind-rape!

[Ichirou]

I dunno, it gives off a friendly vibe that other fonts lack.

Now you're just being disingenuous.

Right?

I mean, no real human being actually thinks that (except for 50-year-old cat lady secretaries).

You do realize that there are fonts that don't come pre-installed with Windows, right?

Thousands of fonts?

Each and every one of which is better than Comic Sans, the single worst thing to happen to type in the past 500 years?

STEPS TO RECOVERY

First, go kill yourself.

Second, be reborn as a person who isn't a total typographic douchebag fuckmonkey.

Third, go to this font foundry and download dozens of "fun" fonts that are also creative, easy to read, and pleasing to the eye.

Fourth, enjoy your new life as a someone who isn't an r-tard Special Olympian that gets his rocks off releasing B4 handout Tijuana Bibles of his Gutenberg corpse-rape.

Basically, IF YOU USE COMIC SANS IN YOUR HANDOUTS YOU DESERVE TO BE SKULL-FUCKED BY A PORCUPINE. NAMBLA has a better logical argument that people who think Comic Sans is "fun."

Dear typography cigarillo,

I write my lesson plans at work.  We are not allowed to download and install ANYTHING at work.  That includes fonts.  There is absolutely nothing wrong with comic sans, and only elitist douchebags think so.  So fuck you.

P.S. Also, my handouts are on A4 paper.  Dick.

[TVC15]

I dunno, it gives off a friendly vibe that other fonts lack.

You're the reason children today are pussies.  If it's typed, it needs to have serifs.  If you are teaching the kids english, why not go the extra effort to teach them minimal good typography skills?

[Ichirou]

I dunno, it gives off a friendly vibe that other fonts lack.

You're the reason children today are pussies.  If it's typed, it needs to have serifs.  If you are teaching the kids english, why not go the extra effort to teach them minimal good typography skills?

No.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

Make your lesson plans at home, then. Seriously.

Comic Sans is like the John Wayne Gacy Jr. of fonts. It looks like a fun clown on the outside but it kills children and fucks their corpses on the inside.

In all seriousness, if you are making a conscious decision to use Comic Sans, you could at least have the common human decency to feel guilty about it.

[Ichirou]

Hey, dumbass...if I make my lesson plans at home using other fonts and then bring them to school to print them out, I'll have to redo them because the school computer DOES NOT SUPPORT THE FONTS I WROTE THE HANDOUTS WITH.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

No.  Serifs have been proven to make things harder to read.

Comic Sans has been proven to make me want to kill anyone who uses Comic Sans.

Hey, dumbass...if I make my lesson plans at home using other fonts and then bring them to school to print them out, I'll have to redo them because the school DOES NOT SUPPORT THE FONTS I WROTE THE HANDOUTS WITH.

I figured you were smart enough to use a self-contained document format that includes the font data. But I guess if you think there is ever a reason that using Comic Sans is justifiable you aren't that smart.

[Fresh Prince]

Century Gothic

I never knew fear from the internet until this day.  You people scare me.  It's a font. 

Well to many it's a form of design. The only crime greater than using Comic Sans is using another font and changing aspects of the typeface teachers\designers go crazy over that 

Also serifs are easier to read in print but sans serif are better on screen.

[bagofeyes]

I use comic sans in handouts too. Better than any font you ever made.

[Ichirou]

Hey, dumbass...if I make my lesson plans at home using other fonts and then bring them to school to print them out, I'll have to redo them because the school DOES NOT SUPPORT THE FONTS I WROTE THE HANDOUTS WITH.

I figured you were smart enough to use a self-contained document format that includes the font data. But I guess if you think there is ever a reason that using Comic Sans is justifiable you aren't that smart.

I'm not some kind of poindexter who gets pissed off at people because of the fonts they use for high school handouts.  Sorry.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

Font is a voice, and Comic Sans is Gilbert Gottfried.

When you use Comic Sans, all the words you write just like "hurbidee durbidee I like to fuck chickens and cattle bluhbluhbluh."

[Ichirou]

Font is a voice, and Comic Sans is Gilbert Gottfried.

When you use Comic Sans, all the words you write just like "hurbidee durbidee I like to fuck chickens and cattle bluhbluhbluh."

Hey, man.  You're obviously enjoying making snarky comments, but what other fucking friendly-looking font would you suggest?  KIDPRINT?!

Or you could pretend to be a human being for a second and tell me how to make a "self-contained document format" in Word so I could switch from comic sans to something else.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

Font is a voice, and Comic Sans is Gilbert Gottfried.

When you use Comic Sans, all the words you write just like "hurbidee durbidee I like to fuck chickens and cattle bluhbluhbluh."

Hey, man.  You're obviously enjoying making snarky comments, but what other fucking friendly-looking font would you suggest?  KIDPRINT?!

I would, in all seriousness, use any pre-installed font that comes with Windows rather than Comic Sans.

[The Sceneman]

hey welcome back bagofeyes. where you been?

[Vizzys]

futura
helvetica neue

[bagofeyes]

lol internet nerdism is becoming ridiculous. 'You print out your work with Black 234 ink? I'd rather just cut my wrists and write with my blood!!!'

[bagofeyes]

hey welcome back bagofeyes. where you been?

Hey. I moved, and I only have the net at work now, and I'm not in the office all that much. But the semester is winding down so I have more time at the moment

[Ichirou]

Font is a voice, and Comic Sans is Gilbert Gottfried.

When you use Comic Sans, all the words you write just like "hurbidee durbidee I like to fuck chickens and cattle bluhbluhbluh."

Hey, man.  You're obviously enjoying making snarky comments, but what other fucking friendly-looking font would you suggest?  KIDPRINT?!

I would, in all seriousness, use any pre-installed font that comes with Windows rather than Comic Sans.

Jesus Christ.  And people think japafags are nerdy.

For the purposes of my work, comic sans suits me just fine.  I want the lesson handouts to have an informal feel to them, and as I have said repeatedly, none of the other pre-installed fonts serve the purpose quite as well as comic sans.

[Vizzys]

know thy enemy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Connare

http://www.connare.com/comic.htm

[Howard Alan Treesong]

For the purposes of my work, comic sans suits me just fine.  I want the lesson handouts to have an informal feel to them, and as I have said repeatedly, none of the other pre-installed fonts serve the purpose quite as well as comic sans.

Comic Sans doesn't have an "informal" feel, though.

It doesn't say "fun," it says "I don't have any idea how to actually make this text look fun and interesting, so I am just going to throw Comic Sans on there because Microsoft tells me it's 'fun', but it's not."

It reeks of cluelessness and desperation.

[Ichirou]

Patel, why did God make your asshole so big?  So you could defecate poop onto your keyboard?

And yes, even the stupid bancomicsans page you linked to says that there ARE some appropriate uses for comic sans and that it exudes "silliness."  You're being a huge nerd about this.

And you're also being an asshole because I actually asked you to show me how to do the "self-contained document format" thing you were talking about, but you're happier just slinging shit.  Kind of like a monkey.  A little trained monkey.

[TVC15]

Ichirou, why not do ONE SIMPLE THING to ensure that the kids know what kind of typeface to use where?  What if they have to write a goddamned letter in english some day?  It is two tiny things to teach that would put them above the vast majority of other english writers, at least in America.

Willfully using Comic Sans, and then acting like it is your only choice is distinguished mentally-challenged.  It's not a font meant to be put on paper, and it's not a good looking font, period.

[Ichirou]

Ichirou, why not do ONE SIMPLE THING to ensure that the kids know what kind of typeface to use where?  What if they have to write a goddamned letter in english some day?  It is two tiny things to teach that would put them above the vast majority of other english writers, at least in America.

Willfully using Comic Sans, and then acting like it is your only choice is distinguished mentally-challenged.  It's not a font meant to be put on paper, and it's not a good looking font, period.

HEY

I HAVE ASKED REPEATEDLY IN THIS THREAD

WHAT FONT YOU FOLKS WOULD RECOMMEND

AND YOU JUST DECIDE TO IGNORE AND BERATE

SO FUCK YOU WHITE MAN

AND FUCK YOU PATEL

[Vizzys]

USE CHALKBOARD INSTEAD

[TVC15]

TIMES NEW ROMAN ON PAPER, TARD!  Garamond if you know a machine has it.

You probably shouldn't even be teaching people english if you don't know jack about the language.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

I gave you a link to a page with hundreds of good fonts. I'm sorry that your school doesn't allow you to install fonts but that's really no excuse for using Comic Sans.

It's funny you call me a monkey--the ability to make aesthetic judgments about what is and is not pleasing is one of the biggest things that separates us from the animals. I would argue that by using Comic Sans you are lowering yourself to the level of an uncaring primate. Be a man! Use a real font!

And I gave you a real suggestion: any font other than Comic Sans. You should never use Comic Sans for any reason.

EDIT: If you read the link Viz provided, the creator of the font himself says that Comic Sans was "NOT designed as a typeface but as a solution to a problem with the often overlooked part of a computer program's interface. ...There was no intention to include the font in other applications other than those designed for children."

It was not designed as a font for documents that you create, print out, and share with people. It was created as a UI-font for children's software.

[Ichirou]

There is no font called "chalkboard" installed as a default on Word.  I just checked.  And I'm not using Times New Roman.  Too fucking formal.

I'm going to keep using Comic Sans just to spite you fuckers.

[demi]

Verdana and Tahoma are good choices

[TVC15]

There is no font called "chalkboard" installed as a default on Word.  I just checked.  And I'm not using Times New Roman.  Too fucking formal.

What a fucktard.  In print, you generally use serif fonts.  I named a serif font every computer has.

And too formal?  You are supposed to be teaching them the language--this isn't smile time funny pages laughie hour.  Teach them the goddamned typography.

[Vizzys]

chalkboard is mac, just messin wit you

its comic sans-esqe

verdana is coo

[Ichirou]

There is no font called "chalkboard" installed as a default on Word.  I just checked.  And I'm not using Times New Roman.  Too fucking formal.

What a fucktard.  In print, you generally use serif fonts.  I named a serif font every computer has.

And too formal?  You are supposed to be teaching them the language--this isn't smile time funny pages laughie hour.  Teach them the goddamned typography.

You know what?  In all seriousness, you don't know shit about my job, so shut the fuck up.

I am teaching them the language.  The setting is supposed to be informal and open so as to encourage a casual relationship between the teacher and the students, which will encourage them to open up and try to communicate in a foreign language that most are embarassed to speak in front of their peers.  Having simple-looking handouts facilitates this.  You are being an utter ignoramus: if you think something written in TIMES NEW ROMAN or GARAMOND, serif fonts that are used to in UNIVERSITY THESES AND NEWSPAPERS, is going to give a more relaxing vibe, then you have NO FUCKING CLUE WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT.

[TVC15]

Sorry Ichirou, you are laying building blocks for these folks, no?  What happens if they have to write something formal in english and they have no fucking clue what font to use?

[Howard Alan Treesong]

I did your job for three fucking years and demi can fuck me up the ass if I ever used Comic Sans in a handout.

Comic Sans isn't informal, it's downright unprofessional. While you're at it, you might as well show up to work an hour late and three beers to the wind. I mean, that would make you more relaxed, right? Giving you a more informal rapport with your students, right?

Booze and Comic Sans--it's not my solution, it's history's solution!

[Ichirou]

Sorry Ichirou, you are laying building blocks for these folks, no?  What happens if they have to write something formal in english and they have no fucking clue what font to use?

I...I LOL'd...seriously, how stupid do you think high school kids are?  Don't judge them all by the standard set by Miles Trahan.

Patel, you're acting like a snord.  A snobby nerd.  That's what you are.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

Whatever, drunky!

I have it on good authority that God doesn't let people who use Comic Sans into Heaven.

EDIT: TVC has a good point, really. By using Comic Sans in your handouts you are teaching these students that Comic Sans is an appropriate font to use when creating English documents. THE DISEASE IS INSIDE OF YOU.

I would love to continue to berate your nun-rapingly poor typographic sensibilities but it's 2 AM here.

[Ichirou]

I've been working here two years and I've never shown up late to work, much less drunk.  If you're going to insult me with something, try to at least base it off of something factual so it'll hurt a little more.

[TVC15]

Sorry Ichirou, you are laying building blocks for these folks, no?  What happens if they have to write something formal in english and they have no fucking clue what font to use?

I...I LOL'd...seriously, how stupid do you think high school kids are?  Don't judge them all by the standard set by Miles Trahan.

Patel, you're acting like a snord.  A snobby nerd.  That's what you are.

I don't think they are stupid, but I believe they have little experience with english typography, and I bet I am right.

Using comic sans isn't even giving them a HINT at what fonts they should be using in reality.  At least lead by example, and let them know one general use font that is cool to use (like garamond or verdana).  Using comic sans, a font NEVER used in reality, isn't informing them at all when it comes to written english.

[Ichirou]

I'm pretty sure you're wrong on that account, TVC.  I believe they learn about proper font use in typing/computer class....

[Howard Alan Treesong]

I'm pretty sure you're wrong on that account, TVC.  I believe they learn about proper font use in typing/computer class....

Why didn't you take that class?

[Ichirou]

I'm pretty sure you're wrong on that account, TVC.  I believe they learn about proper font use in typing/computer class....

Why didn't you take that class?

You seem to be pretty comfortable sitting on my dick but it's starting to chafe a little.  Mind getting off it for a bit?

[TVC15]

I'm pretty sure you're wrong on that account, TVC.  I believe they learn about proper font use in typing/computer class....

Why not help or reinforce then?  Seriously, dude, comic sans is a completely useless font.  You say it is "informal," but does its perceived informality REALLY make that much of a difference?  You could be sacrificing a bit of "informality" that doesn't even exist in order to help teach the students something somewhat important.

There are tons and tons of good general use fonts.  I see no reason at all to use one that is completely and utterly useless.

[Ichirou]

That's not a particularly compelling argument.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

maybe you could make all your handouts in the spider-man font

then your handouts would be kickin awesome, like your favorite movie of the year, spider-man 3

your handouts would also get extra cachet from association with the playstation 3

yes, the spider-man font is clearly what you should exclusively use from now on

[TVC15]

That's not a particularly compelling argument.

Neither is the idea that comic sans is "informal" and makes people feel at ease.  Forget the serif v. sans argument, you are teaching them with a completely irrelevant font. You could make the font you use relevant by altering one drop box, but you choose not to, for no apparent reason.

[Ichirou]

I'd probably use the Spidey 3 font for the subject lines of a few handouts, if I had access to it.  It's too hard to read for me to make a whole handout using it, though.

P.S. BTW, Patel, take a cue from TVC 15.  He is actually convincing me to switch to Times New Roman instead of acting like a complete dickhead like you.

[demi]

I'm pretty sure you're wrong on that account, TVC.  I believe they learn about proper font use in typing/computer class....

Why didn't you take that class?

You seem to be pretty comfortable sitting on my dick but it's starting to chafe a little.  Mind getting off it for a bit?

[Ichirou]

Did you purposefully make that with COMIC SANS, demi?