Comments on: Comic Sans: The Font Everyone Loves to Hate

By: KEN the Scribe

KEN the Scribe — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 21:44:30 +0000

It seems that a mouse may appear to be an elephant in some folk’s eyes. A molehill becomes a mountain. Why do you folk get so heated over an issue that’s about as important as that when pigs are arguing over the quality of oranges? If you like being chained to your feelings then go on as you are.Get a life! Start asking questions and not letting off steam like a darn automatic machine. It is UNECESSARY to do that . STOP IT !!!! NOW.xxx ( It CAN be done).

By: Mountain Mama

Mountain Mama — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 02:11:41 +0000

This is good example of people just taking themselves too seriously.
I did not know that there is a stigma attached to this font. I have used it for a long time. It is legible, clear, and clean. That does not make it right, but who really cares? As long as the message is written with care, intention, honesty, integrity, and truth it does not matter what font it is in…
Nuff said….

By: Ana

Ana — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 13:37:15 +0000

I’m not a designer and I don’t give a damn of what you think. I’m a normal user and yes, I did homework and some essays in Comic sans. I like it. Most people don’t like it because they were told so, they were told it is ugly and “inappropriate”. It’s a FONT, people! And not everyone likes the same things! You need to grow up and get a life, honestly. At University we were due to hand homework in Times New Roman and I hate it. Still, in the end, I don’t care, it’s just a font.

You KNOW there is a reason why it is so used?!?! Yes, because people LIKE it. Because it’s easy to read, it’s clean, it’s appealing, big enough for it, and it’s “round” like the way we write with our hands (specialy girls!).

By: Elvy

Elvy — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 09:28:08 +0000

Wew…reading comments makes me wonder why Comic Sans is disliked by so many of you…I think what we should know is just how to use the right font for particular project, task, or design. Also, in my country, the typeface commonly used for professional work or school assignments is Times New Roman. Comic Sans is usually used for informal purpose.

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By: AJ

AJ — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 21:48:38 +0000

Wow, I’m learning as I practice graphic design and I just found out that this font… which I used in my last big project… is hated so much. I picked it in the beginning because I just thought it was a somewhat artistic looking, modern font, so hey.. why not use that. that’s all! I never thought there would be so much animosity, bickering, and hate over something as small as a font. From all that I’ve read about why people hate it so much makes me think it’s pretty ridiculous. So much hate for a font? I see a little on how it can be used in the wrong ways but I think it has it’s good side like how I mentioned. Stop the hate, take a pill.

By: Bobby

Bobby — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 14:34:07 +0000

I LOVE COMIC SANS

By: David

David — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 16:22:49 +0000

Can´t believe I have been reading so many comments about a font!

Anyway, I think the main reason that Comic Sans is so much used is that it is the ONLY “funny but readable” font you can find in MS-word.
For a non-designer (as me) the fonts in Word look all the same as Times NR or are just unreadable.

By: Jon

Jon — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 03:12:56 +0000

OMG…I cannot believe what all of you people are saying. You people disgust me…

You hate…a digitally rendered typeface…

Think about that for a moment.

There are infinitely more things in this plane of existence that deserve as much hate as Comic Sans is getting. There is nothing wrong with Comic Sans. It is a font…leave it alone, get out of your basements, leave your mother’s house…and GET A LIFE!

I would never use Comic Sans on an essay, or even a semi-informal piece of work…but then, I would never use Times New Roman on a social greeting card, party invitation, social website, or any other fully informal piece of writing.

On the internet, there are only so many fonts that our browsers can support, Comic Sans is one of them. Doesn’t this say something for Comic Sans, how it has beat out thousands of other fonts in the very exclusive list of universally supported fonts?

You people don’t like it because it is popular and widely accepted. Jealousy breeds hatred I guess.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 23:19:53 +0000

If someone else would just come up with an informal, handwritten-looking font that *IS* well designed, and then make it as ubiquitous on computers as Comic Sans, I’d switch in a minute. 99% of Windows computers and 92% of Macs have it installed.

For the Web, if you are sticking to informal handwritten-looking fonts that a high percentage of people on BOTH Mac and PC have, Comic Sans is pretty much it — unless you are using @font-face or other remote-font technology, which not everyone can do.

The only other “handwritten” fonts that come close to Comic Sans’ universality are various “chancery” fonts like Monotype Corsiva or Apple Chancery, and they do not look the same AT ALL nor do they give the same flavor.

So far all the proposed alternatives to Comic Sans I’ve seen are for print design, where you can basically use any font you wan, because your end user does not always need to have the font installed. The Web is different.