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tri_sarah_tops · Marc Jacobs

Comic Sans - Rant!!

janey831 · Kate Spade

HAHAAHA!! This completely made me laugh this morning.

Farrah · Marc Jacobs

I am right there with you babe. I detest Comic Sans as well. A while back someone posted this site (Halleybird perhaps?) that I totally love. It is all about banning Comic Sans.

Down with Comic Sans!!

http://bancomicsans.com/home.html

dangergirl · Kate Spade

argh i hate comic sans too. i love that my uni marks essays down if you use it

Lilykind · Hermes

You know what's the worst?

I have worked for two (very large/household name) companies who consider Comic Sans a "professional font". OMFG...if you hate it in personal correspondence, can you imagine actual official documents and forms in it?

tri_sarah_tops · Marc Jacobs

Thanks for the link Farrah, I loved that site! I so want to buy a mug to use at work.

We hosted a meeting and all the attendees were at least director level and my coworker printed the name tents in Comic Sans. WTF?

tri_sarah_tops · Marc Jacobs

Lilykind wrote:

You know what's the worst?

I have worked for two (very large/household name) companies who consider Comic Sans a "professional font". OMFG...if you hate it in personal correspondence, can you imagine actual official documents and forms in it?

Ack! no f'n way.

what is wrong with everyone?

atlgirl · Gucci

Bahahahaha! I'd totally start responding in wingdings. Or something like that gothic style...totally hard to read.

HeatherLynn · Gucci

Alright, I'm gonna be the lone dissent here. I don't see what is so bad about it. It looks pretty similar to arial, which is what my company uses as the standard font. I wouldn't choose this font for emails or anything else I type for the company (because I think there is a company standard font for a reason), but I certainly dont detest it and would probably use it on my personal email.

tri_sarah_tops · Marc Jacobs

HeatherLynn wrote:

Alright, I'm gonna be the lone dissent here. I don't see what is so bad about it. It looks pretty similar to arial, which is what my company uses as the standard font. I wouldn't choose this font for emails or anything else I type for the company (because I think there is a company standard font for a reason), but I certainly dont detest it and would probably use it on my personal email.

Heather, I could deal with it in personal email, but it drives me crazy that people use it for business purposes. I'm an assistant, and what set off my rant this morning is that I got a meeting request for a senior VP, sent by an assistant on behalf of an executive VP, for a pretty important meeting, and the whole thing was typed in Comic Sans 18. Our company font is Arial as well, so that's what I think everyone should use. People somehow think it's appropriate to use a font that was originally designed for comic bubbles in business correspondance, and that's what really bothers me. I'd venture to guess that at my company Comic Sans is the preferred font of at least 70% of assistants and I just. don't. get. it.

subwolley · Kate Spade

I'm a graphic designer and I totally agree!!!! There are certain fonts that just look amateur. Bradley Hand Script is the other one I can't stand and everyone uses it. I agree that it's not a big deal that it's being used in an email, but if you work in the business and you are familar with the fonts, they do get old.

luckylily · Gucci

This drives me crazy too. On the same note, it bugs me when people use backgrounds in work email. I have a couple coworkers that use a cloud background. I get equally annoyed by funny quote tag lines in work email.

I guess I'm kind of a fuddy duddy about business correspondence. I feel like you should stick to the basics.

tri_sarah_tops · Marc Jacobs

luckylily wrote:

This drives me crazy too. On the same note, it bugs me when people use backgrounds in work email. I have a couple coworkers that use a cloud background. I get equally annoyed by funny quote tag lines in work email.

I guess I'm kind of a fuddy duddy about business correspondence. I feel like you should stick to the basics.

ITA. Not to mention that emails sent on staionaries sometimes take forever to open.

subwolley · Kate Spade

Yeah the stationary is not good either. Someone I know uses the famous cloud background as well.

Starstuff · Kenneth Cole

luckylily wrote:

...On the same note, it bugs me when people use backgrounds in work email. I have a couple coworkers that use a cloud background. ...

I work with someone who does this -- he sends out email with a cloud background, using an italicized version of an already hard-to-read font. AND, his email frequently has misspellings and/or typos. Every time I get email from him, I cringe.

Kelly · Hermes

A cousin showed me bancomicsans.com a year or two ago. We both work for my family's business making websites - and you wouldn't believe how many people *request* comic sans. It makes me die a little inside every time I have to make a website logo in Comic Sans. I hate that font more than most things.

I actually made a facebook group a while ago named "ban comic sans" you all can search for it and join it or I can invite you. It's quite the party smile

kenzie · Chanel

subwolley wrote:

I'm a graphic designer and I totally agree!!!! There are certain fonts that just look amateur. Bradley Hand Script is the other one I can't stand and everyone uses it. I agree that it's not a big deal that it's being used in an email, but if you work in the business and you are familar with the fonts, they do get old.

Ditto to everything. Another font that I actually like, but that has become far too ubiquitous is Papyrus. It's freaking everywhere!

There are so many great fonts out there, I see no need for either Comic Sans or Bradley Hand Script.

subwolley · Kate Spade

Kenzie, I know!! Papyrus is EVERYWHERE! I saw it on a delivery truck the other day, and I constantly see it in ads. It seems to be very popular for small company logos as well.

halleybird · Hermes

AHHH! I so agree. Almost everything we get at work is in comic sans. I think people consider it a nice, readable, "friendly" font, but it looks so unprofessional to me. Especially when there are so many readable alternatives. I have this hanging up at work: