Nov
7
2005

font bad

Here’s a design movement I can get behind: bancomicsans.com.

In 1995 Microsoft released the font Comic Sans originally designed for comic book style talk bubbles containing informational help text. Since that time the typeface has been used in countless contexts from restaurant signage to college exams to medical information. These widespread abuses of printed type threaten to erode the very foundations upon which centuries of typographic history are built.

While we recognize the font may be appropriate in a few specific instances, our position is that the only effective means of ending this epidemic of abuse is to completely ban Comic Sans.

Can someone start a movement to ban rampant abuse of Copperplate Gothic, too?

(Link found via Advertising/Design Goodness.)

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Posted at 9:41 AM in design

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Actually, Comic Sans was made for the beloved (by me) Microsoft Bob program. A note from the creator.

Posted by Doug Nelson on November 10, 2005 10:05 AM

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