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ban comic sans
by noteworthy at 2:42 am EDT, May 6, 2005

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.

While we recognize the font may be appropriate in a few specific instances, our position is that the only effective means of ending this epidemic of abuse is to completely ban Comic Sans.

I am on the front lines in this war ...


 
RE: ban comic sans
by IconoclasT at 8:13 am EDT, May 6, 2005

noteworthy wrote:
] 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.
]
] While we recognize the font may be appropriate in a few
] specific instances, our position is that the only effective
] means of ending this epidemic of abuse is to completely ban
] Comic Sans
.

]
]
] I am on the front lines in this war ...

OK, but Times New Roman has to go first..


 
 
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