Comic Sans: My wife refused to stop using it. Tonight I finally broke her by explaining it thusly: Using Comic Sans is like having bad body odor - you don't notice it, your friends can't stand it, but nobody is impolite enough to tell you.

ComicSansMS

[bursts into tears, deletes reddit account]

flapcats

For a laugh I set my desktop font to Comic Sans. It was so horrid, I closed the lid on the laptop immediatley and haven't opened it since. I had to buy a new one.

stesch

I just hate Comic Sans because everybody else hates it, too. Want to fit into the crowd.

fancy_pantser

I don't think anyone should stop anyone else form using Comic Sans. For me and many others worldwide, it's the fastest way to tell that something isn't worth reading.

jebuscycle

Sounds like Hitler and his Soviet font. Everyone told him it would be his downfall...

attag

Using Comic Sans is more like wearing Crocs.

Navek

I used to work for a company that sent out cash-back rejection letters in comic sans. I told the lady who designed it, that if I received a letter telling me I hadn't done enough to claim cashback, sometimes several hundred pounds, in comic sans I would find the office and burn it down. She responded: "I don't know, I just kind of like it."

colloquialimpalement

I have seen Comic Sans, Impact, and Papyrus used too many times to count.

I was at the Toronto Exhibition this year and there were TWO companies right beside each other selling goods whose logos were just the Papyrus font.

It made the designer in me die a little.

idclip

The downside of Swedish health care: they use comic sans, even when on the subject of endometrial cancer.

memmy

Complaining about fonts is hipsterism for nerds.

Munter

My mother has achieved Nirvana - Comic Sans, centered, italic, hot pink, and UR CAPS IZ ALL ON.

No shit.

superbreakfasttime

Or a couple of nerds on the internet get their panties in a bunch over it. Honestly, who gives a fuck?

satisfied

The real problem here is not the use of a font. Its the control freak husband.

Circa1902

http://achewood.com/index.php?date=07052007

"Guys! Come quick! I found the son of a bitch who invented Comic Sans!

Chive

At which point she turned round and said, "It's funny you should say that dear…"

nevinera

Using Comic Sans is like having bad body odor - you don't notice it, your friends can't stand it, but nobody is impolite enough to tell you.

Using Comic Sans is like setting the table incorrectly - almost nobody cares, but there are a couple people out there that think it's the most important thing in the world, and will complain and insult you until you switch to a format that is approved by Emily Post.

jordanlund

Comic Sans saved my life:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbNesTwWHKw

ovovlo

Your wife should go find a real man

natemc

Can we please add Papyrus to this list.

kidintheshadows

Gaaaawd. Sounds like my mom and Monotype Corsiva. She insists on using it in any kind of Word document.

VonStraussKoc

this is excellent advice. People usually think I'm crazy when I complain about Comic Sans.

sbsb27

What else does your wife do that bothers the heck out of you? Like maybe drive with her left hand on the wheel and not her right? How about folding the laundry sleeves in first instead of from the center? Maybe she uses milk in her coffee rather than cream. God, I hate that!

SiriusAlphaCMa

I like comic sans. It's just not for every occasions.

admiralteal

My mother was a nursery school teacher for most of my life, and they had to use Comic Sans for every single school publication/poster

Why? Not because it was cutsey. ONLY comic sans draws all letters (notably the lower-case a) the same was a standard early-education program teaches young children to make them. Using any other font might confuse the students.

So remember this: if you use comic sans, you are telling the person you're writing to that you believe they have the mentality of an easily-confused three to six-year-old.

andyeff

I'd hate to be married to someone.

I have attachment issues.

lifesucks

What is it with people's hate of Comic Sans? How can a person hate a font? I don't personally use it, but why should I give a shit if someone else does?

tommym

oops, I like it. guess i'd better reup the deoderant

rubixqube

This has now made me paranoid about my body odour.

jerrygofixit

I guess I never really got that font hate so prevalent on reddit. I don't understand what the big deal is, it's a fucking font! I mean really, it really irks people this much? I could see if embedded in the font was a guy raping your mother but I've yet to see that.

jusu

Grow up people, it's just a font. Sure it typically is found to be nice by people who do not know a lot about fonts or computers, but so what. I'm pretty sure if you knitted a pair of mittens the knitting club would like laugh at your choice of design. They are just too nice people to bitch about that and believe that when you get the correct set of skills and perspective, you will do something else.

qpid

http://bancomicsans.com/ relevant

-____-

Calibri rules! ^_^

TheNoxx

Obligatory (and I can't believe no one's posted this): http://achewood.com/index.php?date=07052007

judgej2

Well, that's a subtle way to tell your wife she has bad body odour.

acedia007

Today is a most horrible day. The even crazier thing is that I'm actually going to stop using it. Note to self: Go back to Times New Roman or Arial.

2foofoo

Oh jeeeze, the font police!

randomb0y

Word of advice: 99% of the population doesn't notice or care what kind of formatting you use.

redgod6661

lol-I had a client that INSISTED on using this font. For everything, titles, body copy, lists... I gave him a whole contact sheet of different fonts, deliberated for 10 mins with me and redecided on it. Guess where that went.

Shawnanigans

My list of acceptable fonts; Helvetica (and related fonts like, Arial and Akzidenz-Grotesk), Futura (and related fonts like, Century Gothic) and OS defaults like Calibri and Lucida Grande. Also serifs can go fuck themselves.

FerPosting

Font snob.

qetuo18

What is wrong with Comic Sans? Next to Ariel it is the easiest font to read.

idiotaddict

I'd hate to be married to someone so controlling they need to tell me what fonts I can't use.

Lawen

You made my quotefile.

derp_derp_derp

My default messenger font for the last month or so has been yellow comic sans at the largest size possible. Several people have stopped talking to me because of it :D

whizdumb

The only thing worse than Comic Sans, Papyrus...

kinematografi

I go to UNC School of the Arts and the only sticker that they have for your car is in Comic Sans instead of the usual Princetown typeface. I don't know whose decision this was, but I want to strangle them.

agiaccone

Truth be told, most people don't care. As long as it's legible, and of a reasonable size, the vast majority of people don't care which type you use. Comic Sans is fine. So is Arial, and Courier and a thousand other fonts. What most people expect, is that there's a distinct set of upper and lower case characters and that they have the same baseline. Beyond that... 90% of your readers don't care.

Complaining about font choice, is just about the same as complaining about grammar choices. You care, 2% of your friends care... most people, not so much....

pachuca

i let my mum do my tax refund for me, finding out a lot later that all "my" letters to the HM revenue & customs office were written in comic sans (also with my name in bold and font size 20)

i believe they may have refunded my tax based solely on pity.

cefriano

I'm a verdana man.

john2kxx

http://achewood.com/index.php?date=07052007

lolwutpear

Shit, I use Comic Sans for instant messages. I'd never use it any sort of document, though, especially something that will ever see the physical world. Do I deserve to live?

jasondm

I find it impolite if you don't tell me I smell bad. If you knew and let me go around smelling like ass, you should be punched in the left knee cap.

boli99

just issue her with divorce papers. written in comic sans.

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