[ SECRET POST #2630 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2630 ⌋

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Comments

[tabaqui]

Me, too. What's the big deal?

[feotakahari]

Apparently the complaint is that here's this cute, handwriting-esque font that was never intended to be used seriously, and people write things like office memos in it. It makes the entire text seem faintly ridiculous. (Then again, if you really want to bitch about handwriting-esque fonts that people inexplicably use seriously, take aim at Bradley Hand ITC.)

[tabaqui]

That just adds to the bafflement. Who cares what it's 'intended use' was for? Look at any kind of heavy, angled, 'gothic'/Old English/whatever font. They were used for *bibles* and scholarly works. People print goofy t-shirts in those fonts.

So long as i can read it, I just don't care. And actually, for a pre-made font, that one you posted isn't terrible. It's better than my handwriting on a good day, and a lot better than some weird puffy font or super-skinny stuff that fades into the background.

[queerwolf]

I've always liked that font. I would never use it for memos or business emails though.

[(Anonymous)]

I can deal with everything that isn't Lucida Handwriting.

[feotakahari]

I just looked that up.



Elsewhere in the thread, I described Airplanes in the Night Sky as twee in a sincere and fullhearted way. This is twee in a half-assed way, mimicking the strokes of slightly sloppy handwriting without actually mimicking the sloppiness. It's freeze-dried twee. Instant twee. Twee in a spray can.

To put it another way, I once went to a burger restaurant called Burger. It sells an eight-dollar burger where the bun is two halves of a glazed doughnut. The menu is handwritten, but if it were typed, it would be typed in this font.

I suppose I'm probably overreacting, but still, it is pretty bad.

[(Anonymous)]

Damn... speaking as a semi-professional, that is some GOOD invective. Well done.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah. I remember Lucida Handwriting as that standard font that people in the 90s used when they wanted some sort of "cursive"/handwriting font and this one was the only font of the standard fonts that came close. It was pretty bad. Your description is pretty perfect.

[chardmonster]

I actually don't hate it either. The problem is that it's supposed to be a "fun" font but some people use it inappropriately.




The major issue appears to be that incredibly boring geeks have decided Comic Sans isn't cool, therefore it's another tiny way they can differentiate themselves from normal people, because they must be different, it's all they have.

[tabaqui]

I shall get out my tiny violin. Comic Sans is the font used in Snoopy comics, that i read all my childhood. I can never hate Comic Sans. It would be like hating Snoopy.

[(Anonymous)]

THIS so much this OMG I couldn't understand FandomSecret's hate-on for Comic Sans from the beginning, for precisely this reason. (I even got yelled at back in the LJ days for using it on secrets before I wised up.)

[tabaqui]

HOMG. Yelling at people over it is WRONG. So wrong.

[(Anonymous)]

do you have a citation on this because I'm fairly sure Snoopy is not written in comic sans

[(Anonymous)]

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I don't know, there are times to hate Comic Sans. like when a friend of mine turned in a Holocaust essay entirely in that font. I was pretty horrified.

[chardmonster]

Dear god.

That's what I meant by "inappropriate" though.