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Faye on the BBC website

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Mr_Rose:
If the specific image came from bancomicsans.com to whom Jeph donated the image, and BCS don't have an attribution on their site, how exactly would the BBC even know to link QC? It's not like that Faye looks much like the current one...

As for why CS sucks; it doesn't. Much. At least, as a font, it's well put together with a definite theme and it's not completely unreadable like some of those atrocious "gothic" faces with ridiculous amounts of flourishes etc. so that you can't actually see the letter. It is however completely overused and totally inappropriate for communication of anything longer than a headline. Specifically, a headline about a county fair, or a new children's playground. It should never be used for the full text of anything, especially things you want people to read and retain.
The problem is that people writing these thing just don't get that, and use it in e-mails and official documents and other wildly inappropriate places.

peterh:

--- Quote from: Mr_Rose on 21 Oct 2010, 03:43 ---If the specific image came from bancomicsans.com to whom Jeph donated the image, and BCS don't have an attribution on their site, how exactly would the BBC even know to link QC? It's not like that Faye looks much like the current one...
--- End quote ---

True; I didn't know that.

AsinineAxioms:
My mother's a graphic designer who works with fonts and the like on a professional level; she's taken entire courses in college studying the mechanics of fonts. She tells me that Comic Sans is aesthetically unpleasing on a fundamental level, childish in feel and functionality, and is horrendously misused by a lot of graphic designers who think that they can get a "comic book" feel to their work by using "Comic Sans" when Comic Sans is in reality very poorly suited to use in a comic environment.

So yeah, basically what everyone else has been saying, but confirmed by a professional graphic designer.

akronnick:
Reading Comic Sans is like listening to Sarah Palin, Sharron Angle, Michelle Bachmann and Christine O'Donnell; At first you understand all the words, and on a superficial level it kind of makes sense, but your gut tells you something is deeply wrong, even if you can't quite put your finger on it. And then you see more and it hit's you: Oh yeah, this was written by someone who is completely batshit insane!

peterh:
So...  after reading the above, one might basically come to the conclusion that Comic Sans, while it has its merits, is suffering from people who don't know for which occasion, and which part of the document, should use it?

Makes sense to me... it boils down to what happened to document design when Desktop Publishing became available to the masses.

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