Chiller or Comic Sans on second tier invites?

Wrkn925 · February 2014

I had to say this to someone that would understand.

(I'm just assuming that after years of not posting that there is still an army of Comic Sans haters here.)

DD has to have her bottles labeled for daycare. I went here (http://www.inchbug.com/custom-orbit-labels.html) because all the other daycare moms suggested it. I picked the cheapest ones, picked personalization and discovered that comic sans was the only font option.

I refused to buy them. I just wrote on her bottles with a sharpie. Cheaper anyway.

Lifelong habits learned on TK, there. Down with Comic Sans.

grumbledore · February 2014

I have never been able to tolerate Comic Sans. Good job!

hikebikebemerry · February 2014

I remember when Comic Sans was my favorite font!

...In 8th grade ...Chatting on AIM.

I just when people send professional e-mails and they choose Comic Sans.

OliveOilsMom · February 2014

Love the title of your thread!

emmyg65 · February 2014

You've seen "I'm Comic Sans, Asshole," yes? Never gets old.

ChemFanatic25 · February 2014

Wait you don't like comic sans!?! How else are you going to take me seriously?

Just kidding

hikebikebemerry · February 2014

It always makes me think of this:

Ven&Radio · February 2014

Comic Sans is a terrible font. I've heard some teachers justify it's use because it doesn't have the "top" on the lowercase "a" and apparently that confuses some kids. WTF? They're going to have to learn someday that the lowercase "a" can be formed 2 ways.

misshart00 · February 2014

I was making a logo for my parents once and they wanted comic sans. It took awhile to talk them out of it.

Cookie Pusher · February 2014

I avoid comic sans like the plague. I'd rather write with my feet than use that font!

Blergbot · February 2014

My supervisor composes syllabi for college students in comic sans. I always change it to a not sucky font before I customize them and distribute them to my students.

AddieCake · February 2014

I'm a Verdana whore, myself.

Weesh · February 2014

Blergbot said:

My supervisor composes syllabi for college students in comic sans. I always change it to a not sucky font before I customize them and distribute them to my students.

And I thought it was bad for high school students....a college syllabus in Comic Sans? I'd laugh.

FiancB · February 2014

Ughhhh I used to work for a national park and my boss fucking loved comic sans and used it for all kinds of signage. I was 18 years old and I hated it even then.

WildMagelet · February 2014

OliveOilsMom said:

Love the title of your thread!

Yes!

Jen4948 · February 2014

Either Arial or Times New Roman are my preferences.

Well, there's also Zapf Calligraphic... :-)

Inkdancer · February 2014

One of the supervisors I work with sends emails in green Comic Sans. It hurts me in my face.

I'll stick with my classy Sylfaen, thanks.

lovesclimbing · February 2014

Wrkn925 said:

I had to say this to someone that would understand.
(I'm just assuming that after years of not posting that there is still an army of Comic Sans haters here.)

DD has to have her bottles labeled for daycare. I went here (http://www.inchbug.com/custom-orbit-labels.html) because all the other daycare moms suggested it. I picked the cheapest ones, picked personalization and discovered that comic sans was the only font option.

I refused to buy them. I just wrote on her bottles with a sharpie. Cheaper anyway.

Lifelong habits learned on TK, there. Down with Comic Sans.

I realize you already wrote on her bottles, but there are countless free label templates out there. MS word, if you have that, has a whole bunch. Avery.com has a lot as well. Just buy a box of labels and print them out.

Cookie Pusher · February 2014

Whenever a client emails me using Comic Sans, my reaction looks much like this...

HaileyDancingbear · February 2014

I just don't take stuff seriously that's written in Comic Sans. It just always looks goofy and unprofessional, IMO. I hate it when businesses do it, almost as much as I hate it when a business does NOT proofread stuff before they post it/send it out!

Not to be a grammar nazi, but when a business fucks up simple grammar it bothers me so much. I avoided Victoria's Secret for a while (This was before I got fed up with the fact that none of their bras ever fit me quite right, and got sized for real) because their window display said "Love your Body's" and I was like fuck no. You do NOT pluralize shit by slapping an 's at the end of it! UGH.

Cookie Pusher · February 2014

I used to work at an advertising agency, and there is NO REASON for any advertising/promotional material to have spelling or grammar mistakes. Everything goes through multiple rounds of revisions and get viewed by many sets of eyes to ensure no one has ennui from reading the same thing over and over again. Now, I know sometimes small businesses don't use agencies or use smaller agencies that have fewer staff members because of budget constraints - I'm much less likely to side-eye Mom's & Pop's Diner for a small error. Big corporations with huge budgets, on the other hand, get no sympathy from me when they mess up. You get to review the material after you receive it from the agency and before it gets distributed, so in the end, it's on you.

lovesclimbing · February 2014

HaileyDancingbear said:
I just don't take stuff seriously that's written in Comic Sans. It just always looks goofy and unprofessional, IMO. I hate it when businesses do it, almost as much as I hate it when a business does NOT proofread stuff before they post it/send it out!

Not to be a grammar nazi, but when a business fucks up simple grammar it bothers me so much. I avoided Victoria's Secret for a while (This was before I got fed up with the fact that none of their bras ever fit me quite right, and got sized for real) because their window display said "Love your Body's" and I was like fuck no. You do NOT pluralize shit by slapping an 's at the end of it! UGH.

Yes!! I'm a copy editor, and I got someone's copy last week with "who's" where he meant "whose." I put a note in that "who's" literally means "who is," not the possessive form of "who."

PhoneCardLady · February 2014

I like Tacoma myself.

cookie0803 · February 2014

lovesclimbing said:

HaileyDancingbear said:
I just don't take stuff seriously that's written in Comic Sans. It just always looks goofy and unprofessional, IMO. I hate it when businesses do it, almost as much as I hate it when a business does NOT proofread stuff before they post it/send it out!

Not to be a grammar nazi, but when a business fucks up simple grammar it bothers me so much. I avoided Victoria's Secret for a while (This was before I got fed up with the fact that none of their bras ever fit me quite right, and got sized for real) because their window display said "Love your Body's" and I was like fuck no. You do NOT pluralize shit by slapping an 's at the end of it! UGH.
Yes!! I'm a copy editor, and I got someone's copy last week with "who's" where he meant "whose." I put a note in that "who's" literally means "who is," not the possessive form of "who."

I received a free shirt with a dress I had ordered a few years ago. The shirt said "Just TO busy being fabulous!" I called the company to mention their error (I would be embarrassed and would definitely want to know), and they hung up on me.

Wrkn925 · February 2014

lovesclimbing said:

Wrkn925 said:

I had to say this to someone that would understand.
(I'm just assuming that after years of not posting that there is still an army of Comic Sans haters here.)

DD has to have her bottles labeled for daycare. I went here (http://www.inchbug.com/custom-orbit-labels.html) because all the other daycare moms suggested it. I picked the cheapest ones, picked personalization and discovered that comic sans was the only font option.

I refused to buy them. I just wrote on her bottles with a sharpie. Cheaper anyway.

Lifelong habits learned on TK, there. Down with Comic Sans.

I realize you already wrote on her bottles, but there are countless free label templates out there. MS word, if you have that, has a whole bunch. Avery.com has a lot as well. Just buy a box of labels and print them out.

The labels I linked are like those rubber support bracelets but they fit on bottles. I've labeled them with sharpie a couple of times and with a Dymo label maker and those keep coming off. I plan on ordering the rubber bracelet type from another company at some point.

Printer labels work, they just won't withstand the multiple washes.

Glad to hear Comic Sans it still hated.

APDSS22 · February 2014

@Inkdancer : I love Sylfaen as a font. I'm usually lazy and just go with Arial since it doesn't bug me and is the automatic option on most of the places I type.

seshat303 · February 2014

Don't forget Papyrus! I was volunteering with a silent auction and just about every damn spa/massage place/chiropractor used papyrus on their business cards and other advertising materials. I was getting a little twitchy by the end. My middle sister also told me that when she got married and older graphic designer sister was doing her invites she made the mistake of saying she rather liked papyrus and she thought older sister was going to lose her shit.

If I see comic sans in a work email (hell, any email) I sort of wonder about the person sending it, much like if I get a work email with zero punctuation (thankfully I've yet to see both of those happen in the same email). Oh yeah, I judge your font choice. Hard. Thankfully there aren't too many horrific options on our work computers.

And yes, I'm Comic Sans, Asshole is one of the greatest things ever!

[Deleted User] · February 2014

HaileyDancingbear said:

I just don't take stuff seriously that's written in Comic Sans. It just always looks goofy and unprofessional, IMO. I hate it when businesses do it, almost as much as I hate it when a business does NOT proofread stuff before they post it/send it out!

Not to be a grammar nazi, but when a business fucks up simple grammar it bothers me so much. I avoided Victoria's Secret for a while (This was before I got fed up with the fact that none of their bras ever fit me quite right, and got sized for real) because their window display said "Love your Body's" and I was like fuck no. You do NOT pluralize shit by slapping an 's at the end of it! UGH.

As a visual merchandiser, this makes me want to cry. I'd be mortified if this happened in my store. I use Arial Bold exclusively for any and all signs. My pet peeve is when places use different typefaces throughout the store. Like, half of your signs can't be in Times New Roman and the other half in Arial. Consistency, people!!

My personal favorite terrible font is Jokerman. Just about every other home-printed birthday party invite I ever received as a child was in Jokerman.

lovesclimbing · February 2014

Wrkn925 said:

lovesclimbing said:

Wrkn925 said:

I had to say this to someone that would understand.
(I'm just assuming that after years of not posting that there is still an army of Comic Sans haters here.)

DD has to have her bottles labeled for daycare. I went here (http://www.inchbug.com/custom-orbit-labels.html) because all the other daycare moms suggested it. I picked the cheapest ones, picked personalization and discovered that comic sans was the only font option.

I refused to buy them. I just wrote on her bottles with a sharpie. Cheaper anyway.

Lifelong habits learned on TK, there. Down with Comic Sans.

I realize you already wrote on her bottles, but there are countless free label templates out there. MS word, if you have that, has a whole bunch. Avery.com has a lot as well. Just buy a box of labels and print them out.

The labels I linked are like those rubber support bracelets but they fit on bottles. I've labeled them with sharpie a couple of times and with a Dymo label maker and those keep coming off. I plan on ordering the rubber bracelet type from another company at some point.

Printer labels work, they just won't withstand the multiple washes.

Glad to hear Comic Sans it still hated.

Oh yea, didn't think about the washings they'd have to endure!

thelastdreamer · February 2014

Oh my gosh, I work in journalism, and I swear the quickest way to NEVER get something published is to submit it in comic sans. It's seriously horrifying how many people do it. When I was the editor of the college newspaper, we had a "Comic Sans Wall of Shame."

arrippa · February 2014

Comic Sans is the worst. When I want to convey whimsy, I use Calibri.

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