Tuesday 1 December 2009

I love Comic Sans

Comic Sans from Sam and Anita on Vimeo.


Of course I don't but I would love to see your faces right about now.
But of course I don't like comic sans. It's a widely misused typeface and it's
default kerning is disgusting and angers me.What I do love about comic sans,
is that one stage in our lives we have seen it as a default font in windows or used it,
most likely as children designing something "fun"and"cool" maybe for a school project It's once,as designers we have knowledge of other,nicer typefaces that we automatically shun this hideous but once loved typeface. We have this almost snobby approach when parading around an area eg.town center. and we see it being used and compare it to other,better typefaces and boast how "You could've done better".
My desktop background at uni began as a simple I love Comic sans with a heart.
But I think someone strongly dissagreed with me and decided to change my background to a default mac one.
Caught up in the game I then changed it again to I love comic sans
and again,it was changed.This time to "H is for Helvetica"

I then fought back with this: