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Global Curse of Comic Sans

Global Curse of Comic Sans

Illustration from "Ban Comic Sans"

Design Observer has an article on the Global Curse of Comic Sans, that one font we always hate but find them every where.

The article also pointed out a Comic Sans Flickr pool, where people (and especially that font designer, Vincent Connare) document the usage of the font in signage all across Europe and United States.

"Why do you think it's all over the place?" he asks. "No 'decent' corporation cares what a minority of specialists thinks."

And he's right. Who cares if a small minority of deeply principled letterform diehards care about the wanton proliferation of a font that single-handedly throws typographic evolution back, say, a few thousand years or so?

Clearly, there's no accounting for taste.

http://www.designobserver.com/archives/016321.html

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ReBlogged by ann p on Jul 21, 2006 at 12:57 PM Posted by ann p on Jul 21, 2006 at 12:57 PM

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