Comments on: Why Designers Hate Comic Sans

By: Ana

Ana — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 13:46:12 +0000

You know that normal people don’t give a damn if a font is “over used”, “bla bla bla”? Normal people, when they read, they want something appealing and Comic Sans is easy and appealing, and most times they don’t even know what font it is. Normal people won’t say “That advertising is a s*** because it uses Comic Sans!!!”. Normal people will look at it and maybe they will like it anyway!

So stop that anormal hating of a font (it’s JUST a font) and stop talking about it like if it was a philosophic matter!

By: Ling

Ling — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 03:48:58 +0000

Hm, I think some people must see things very differently from my point of view. When I see Comic Sans I just want to puke… :/

By: pepe

pepe — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 05:55:24 +0000

I don’t get the hate for comic sans. It’s the same shit helvetica is. Fucking pretentious designers talk shit on the over usage of CS when they are putting helvetica on everything.

i like comic sans.

By: Stephen Tiano

Stephen Tiano — Thu, 26 May 2011 22:14:22 +0000

Thanks for a sane take on Comic Sans, Rachel. Additionally, if design reflects life, the biggest windbags blowing against Comic Sans likely couldn’t–figuratively, now–carry Vince Connare’s jock in the design arena. In fact, most of them have, I bet, prob’ly never designed a type of their own and likely can’t appreciate the creative urge it requires.

By: Nonnu

Nonnu — Thu, 26 May 2011 13:48:40 +0000

This discussion still goes on?
This post is from December 16th, 2008!

Like Rachel said: It’s a FONT!
This discussion is starting to deserve a “Wingdings treatment” from David Carson

By: Rachel

Rachel — Thu, 19 May 2011 21:10:50 +0000

I can understand why some may dislike Comic Sans; it certainly does have an “elementary school” connotation. I also think it would be highly unprofessional to use it on things like a business card, or something professional.

However.. it’s a font for God’s sake. Anyone who says Comic Sans makes them want to “vomit,” “kick a baby,” or anything of the like is simply mad.

By: Regeta

Regeta — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 17:32:23 +0000

I think everyone who says they dislike Comic Sans bc it is overused are all sheep without a mind of their own, as well as being very…well….they’re just idiots, and that’s the nice way of putting it.

If you are unable to provide any REAL reason as to why Comic Sans shouldn’t be used, you are nothing more than a sheeple who says “Baaaaaaaaaa” whenever your cultural masters tell you to bark.

“I have a deep hatred for you…BECAUSE OTHER PEOPLE TOLD ME TO!!!!!!!!!!”

The low level of moral thought and judgment as well as the inability to think for one’s self and use logic and reasoning (as opposed to irrational hatred) is quite frustrating for those of us who use our brains.

Morons…

By: aaa

aaa — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 15:42:55 +0000

to say that comic sans is ‘overuse’ just does not make sense.

i think at the end of the day, most people just want to follow what other people think about Comic Sans.
Its just an innocent, simple font. Like someone said, there’s a time and place for the different typeface.
The people i know who doesn’t like Comic Sans just say they don’t like it because they are following the crowd and they don’t have a thought-out, specific reason for why they themselves don’t like it.

conclusion: people just want look cool

By: Seaworm

Seaworm — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 02:15:00 +0000

Sadly, I’ll start this comment with the overused sentence “comic sans is overused”.
The great difference between comic sans being overused and helvetica being overused, is that you grow tired of comic sans a lot quicker than helvetica, because the latter is a lot more versatile.

By: BlueWinter

BlueWinter — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 21:02:21 +0000

Comic Sans is overused by schoolchildren, so it has connotations of childishness and amateurishness. To put something like that on, for example, a business card would be madness. Of course, Comic Sans has its context (like if one wanted to create something that looked like it had been done by a preschooler), but there are other fonts that look scrawled which are good to use (such as Journal). I myself am in Year 9, and I cringe when pupils around me use Comic Sans in posters, spider diagrams and whatnot. When I am engaging in graphics art, I try to find fonts online that suit my purposes, so they do not look like overused ones.