The Infamous Comic Sans -

OANST · #31 02-12-2013, 01:39 PM

I suppose I'm the only one who doesn't give a shit, and wants thread creator out.

Manco · #32 02-12-2013, 01:53 PM

I think he’s long gone at this point.

Mac Sirloin · #33 02-12-2013, 01:57 PM

I feel like the whole Comic Sans suks thing is played out in the digital future era of Jokerman font.

Nepsotic · #34 02-12-2013, 03:54 PM

I see that in shops all over the place. My favourite font is Alte DIN Mittelschrift. It's used on road signs in Germany, but I like it because.it's the Portal 2 logo font.

Phylum · #35 02-12-2013, 07:52 PM

I remember when I went through a phase of loving Gothic fonts after watching Death Note for the first time.

I bet everyone's forgotten that I used to have an L avatar back when I was stupid.

Wings of Fire · #36 02-12-2013, 07:56 PM

I sort of remember.

Haha. Death Note.

Haha.

Slog Bait · #37 02-12-2013, 08:02 PM

I remember.

Hehoohwahahwohoho

AlexFili · #38 02-13-2013, 12:34 AM

When chatting with the head of Web Development for an educational website, one of the things that was brought up was not to use Comic Sans. For what it's worth there are thousands of fonts out there, some of which are simple sublime. Be original, use new fonts!

OANST · #39 02-13-2013, 05:28 AM

Death Note's first season was kind of fun. Second......not so much.

Bullet Magnet · #40 02-13-2013, 05:56 AM

Whenever I or anyone else gets e-mail from a god-bot and/or creationist that espouses their extensive scientific credibilities, threatening hellfire, gunfire and the mob or otherwise being a delightful human being, it is always in comic sans. Always.

AvengingGibbons · #41 02-13-2013, 06:18 AM

I used to do my coursework in Arial narrow at 12pt, I like the condensed look. I'm liking Futura currently.

MeechMunchie · #42 02-13-2013, 06:32 AM

Calibri is friendly but fairly formal.

Manco · #43 02-13-2013, 08:51 AM

I usually type up simple docs in Georgia or Helvetica.

I can't really think of a favorite typeface any more. There are faces I like, but no clear favorite.

RoryF · #44 02-13-2013, 09:39 AM

I just use Times New Roman. Classic and my Office 2007 ran out of license so all I have is Office 97. :/

Phylum · #45 02-13-2013, 12:35 PM

God's sake man.

I've been playing around with different fonts in code editors. I'm loving Menlo Regular right now, which is the TextWrangler default. Other than that it's always Courier New.

RoryF · #46 02-13-2013, 12:40 PM

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God's sake man.

I hate OpenOffice. Anyway, Office 97 does a decent job, most of the coursework I do has to be hand written anyway so it isn't too much of a problem.

There is always Dafont.com for free fonts which is awesome because that's what I used for the Oddmatics logo. Space Age I think it was called. They even have a DOS imitation font on there. Not really useful for work related documents though, but still awesome for graphics. Perfect DOS VGA or something.

Manco · #47 02-13-2013, 01:02 PM

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There is always Dafont.com for free fonts

no no NO

That is poor decision-making!

RoryF · #48 02-13-2013, 01:03 PM

And why is that?

Manco · #49 02-13-2013, 01:16 PM

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[...] even the most cursory glance through any of those free typeface websites that are so prevalent will bring up all manner of terrible handwriting fonts, distressed, faux-letterpress fonts with texture already in them and weird, badly drawn copies of existing typefaces without any attention paid to the kerning and metrics, etc.

Because.

RoryF · #50 02-13-2013, 01:18 PM

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Because.

Meh, seems fine to me, just don't go for shit fonts and it's good.

Vyrien · #51 02-13-2013, 01:20 PM

You do have to wade through a lot of shit to find a decent one though.

RoryF · #52 02-13-2013, 01:22 PM

Well it's been good for me, probably because I go on it very rarely and tend to stick to pixel fonts or searching. I wouldn't go though all those other sections, no way sir.

Manco · #53 02-13-2013, 01:29 PM

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Meh, seems fine to me, just don't go for shit fonts and it's good.

And I presume you know what makes a good font?

MeechMunchie · #54 02-13-2013, 01:36 PM

This is where Manco reveals that his mother died from poor typesetting.

Nepsotic · #55 02-13-2013, 01:49 PM

Or you could just get fonts that you have to pay for... for free.

Vyrien · #56 02-13-2013, 01:53 PM

Then get sued when you use them and you don't have a license.

MeechMunchie · #57 02-13-2013, 01:56 PM

The font police will break down your door with their serif cannon.

Nepsotic · #58 02-13-2013, 01:56 PM

Or you could design your own font.

MeechMunchie · #59 02-13-2013, 01:57 PM

I think that's called "handwriting".

Manco · #60 02-13-2013, 01:57 PM

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This is where Manco reveals that his mother died from poor typesetting.

I never knew my father. One fateful day, his life expectancy took a terminal dip.

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Or you could just get fonts that you have to pay for... for free.

There’s a quote about that in my book, too, but I’m not even going to dignify you by typing it out.

I’ll just let you know it’s a real scummy thing to do.

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Or you could design your own font.

How naïve.