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WCDT Strips 3481 to 3485 (15-19 May 2017)

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BenRG:

--- Quote from: anahata on 17 May 2017, 01:50 ---Why did Marten have to move a heavy locker full of tools when it's recently been demonstrated that Bubbles is much better at that sort of thing?
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Because Bubbles and Claire are busy debating 'When is a hammer not a hammer?' and Marten was raised by a dominant mother that has left him permanently unable to interrupt a woman when she's doing something. :laugh:

retrosteve:

--- Quote from: JRDelirio on 16 May 2017, 20:35 ---
--- Quote from: brasca on 16 May 2017, 18:56 ---I'm surprised they have all these tools.  It didn't look like Bubbles and Faye left with much.

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Creepybot Grey may have arranged some transfers from CW's accounts.

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Or Jeremy might have donated tons of CW's old repair tools, not having a lot of use for them himself.

Neko_Ali:
Come now, Faye. Pizza is a perfectly valid substitute for moving payment.

Eversist:

--- Quote from: Morituri on 16 May 2017, 17:46 ---
--- Quote from: Eversist on 16 May 2017, 07:18 ---
--- Quote from: Zebediah on 15 May 2017, 14:27 ---
--- Quote from: Morituri on 15 May 2017, 10:26 ---Seriously.  I don't want to go on recommending a font people hate so horribly.  Tell me something else - ANYTHING else - that meets universal-use conditions as well as comic sans does.

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Arial.

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I would say Helvetica.

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And I would say that neither of those looks anything like hand-lettering. 

I do, however, regularly recommend Helvetica if resemblance to hand-lettering isn't specifically required. 

A really horribly bad version of Arial (which appears about 20% smaller) was, at least up to last year, installed by default on a lot of Linux machines and makes anything in Arial nearly unreadable to some fraction of browsers.

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I wasn't replying in that regard. They are nearly identical fonts as one is basically a carbon copy of the other. I was just pointing out to Zebediah that Helvetica is the OG.

To be fair, you did say "universal-use," which Helvetica definitely hits. Legibility, a thousand weights, and timelessness.

If you're talking approachability... As far as handwriting fonts (or comic book lettering, as Comic Sans was created to mimic), I could name a few (Good Dog, mostly known for being used in the "Keep Austin Weird" slogan, and Chalkboard and Kristen are also classics from the PC), but of course they do not have the ubiquity of Comic Sans. Comic Sans has been a native font on PCs for over 20 years and has been the butt of tired graphic designer jokes for about that long. Hard to beat it.

I could nerd out about typefaces forever, so I'll stop now.

JoeCovenant:
I can't utterly hate Comic Sans, seeing as how it was (without doubt) based on Charles M. Schulz's lettering style.

But seeing it anywhere other than in a Peanuts cartoon is... well... yeah...

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