That’s what the “alt” tag is for

This whole “Comic Sans” thing is way too hyped up. Who really cares about some stupid font? I’m sick of hearing about this unimportant bullshit. Nobody cares! Seriously!

Want a font that seriously should be banned?

I’m going to go invent the Mussolini Hitler Bush font now.

I’ve seen patient’s medical notes printed out in Comic sans.

Eye-bleeding.

@jkillah: You should be aware that they make decaffeinated coffee that’s just as tasty as the real thing. Just a thought.

Abused fonts? What about Papyrus, geez.. I see it every time I walk out the door

oh puh-leez
thats the stupidest thing i’ve ever heard
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…why bother making a stupid comment that’s negative toward the blogger? He won’t care, and surely neither does anyone else.

I, personally, HATE the comic-sans. It’s most often NOT used properly at all. And, honestly, if someone is putting in an error message to guide against it, maybe it’s because they thought it was a bad idea. Too bad it can’t magically make it disappear like the rest of crap fonts that people insist on using.

Kudos to the programmer that made this, and kudos to the blogger that posted about it. It made me smile, and I’m sure that was the whole point of the thing…to bring something with humor (and a message) to people that just happened along the site.

I don’t really understand the hatred of that font either, jk. Thats the one I learned to read on and I find it very comfortable to use every day. As a matter of fact my pen is even set to comic sans.

Isn’t Sand the worst font ever? Comic Sans can’t be worse than Sand! And Papyrus, please people, stop using Papyrus!

I think it’s not even so much the font itself that annoys me - horrible as it is - as the kind of documents that are written in it. I associate it with poorly-spelled amateurish plays, written by that woman at the youth group whom everybody’s really just humouring and noone has the heart to tell her they’re crap…

How many letters can you put in an alt tag?

And does Google treat it the same as normal text for relevancy ranking of the page? Is it used in search results excerpts on Google?

I always put my “accessibility transcriptions” in text, not in alt tags. (I don’t really give a flip about accessibility, but I want the Google traffic.)

I’m pretty sure Papyrus (ab)use has long since eclipsed Comic Sans. Seriously: there should be a tax for using Papyrus!

Finally, someone else (several of you, it seems) also hates Papyrus. Being vegan I am in the health food store a lot and this font is more than abused, it is tortured. I agree, this font may have eclipsed the dreaded Comic Sans.

FWIW, I’m still occasionally seeing Apple’s historic bitmap font ‘Chicago’ used in print and video. Talk about font abuse!

The “Ban Comic Sans” site sells merchandise that promotes banning the font but the same font is used for all the text on the merchandise. Does that seem stupid to anyone else? Of course I also feel the t-shirts and stickers that claim a baseball team sucks are stupid. I mean if they suck then why not wear a shirt promoting a team you do like? I guess some people just prefer to always be negative.

@Rick Bob: Hence the saying “You can have a popular movement without a God, but you can’t have one without a Devil.”

Now, if only MS Word’s helpful suggestions included, “It looks like you’re making a sign! Might I suggest something other than Times New Roman and All Caps?”

Dialog Box: Reconsider Comic Sans…

Aegisub, a Windows app for adding subtitles to video, doesn’t like you using Comic Sans. Good stuff! I hate that overused font.
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i love comic sans…

-bowerbird

Comic Sans, Papyrus… I nominate Copperplate Gothic to the mix.

Comic Sans is indispensable as a young learner literacy teacher. The letters are clear, and look like the students expect them to (especially the “a”).

Outside of the classroom, however, is another story…

Instead of “[f]or the benefit of RSS readers and search engines,” try “because I am a competent Web developer and I know that every image requires an alt text.”

There is nothing funny about Comic Sans.
It’s deplorable.

What is wrong in using that font? Why is it abusive?

Tech Thoughts

Great! Now we need one for Arial, Trajan and Impact.

I feel it works perfectly at http://www.dopeyhead.com
: )

Comic Sands is the BEST font EVER!!! I’ve used it on every web site I’ve ever made:)

hellz yes. Hate that font.

I love Comic Sans.

my name is ComicSansWarrior! And I am ready to defeat my antiComicSans enemies!

There is nothing wrong with Comic Sans in and of itself. The problem is that it is used in situations that do not warrant it.

If you’re designing a comic book, or a handout for first graders, Comic Sans might be appropriate. If your target audience is adults, that font should never be used. Ever. Using Comic Sans in a professional situation is like wearing cutoffs and a T-shirt to a black tie wedding. It looks stupid, it sends the wrong message, and it makes you look like an idiot.

J: “It’s most often NOT used properly at all”

I think you’ve missed the problem here.

Most of us really don’t give two shakes of a rat’s derriere what font someone uses. When people go off on “this font sucks” rants, we snicker at them as elitist snobs who pretend one of a million basically-identical fonts somehow magically convey the author’s level of education; as though “typography” counts as the pinnacle of human endeavors.

REALLY broad families of fonts have meaning. Serif vs non-serif, proportional-vs-np, cursive-vs-block. The rest of the distinctions so many self-titled “artists” make strike most of us as the worst of pretensions.

I personally like comic sans, but also understand that it may be used too often or inappropriately in some peoples opinion. If I could rid the world of a font it would be (this) Times New Roman. I mean come on, it may be easy to read (but so are many other fonts), but it has been used more than any other font. It’s old, tired, needs a damn rest. I mean when are we going to move into the twenty-first century and say my damn computer does NOT have to look like a type-writer. Just my opinion. For all the Comic Sans haters, I suggest you create a font that people want to use so much that they forget about Comic Sans or just let it go. I mean I hate looking at baseball caps or high-heels, but I’m not gonna tell anyone how to dress, let alone how to type.

“…is like wearing cutoffs and …”
Nice analogy!
Cited in Analogies & Metaphors.

the most appropriate analogy is that comic sans supporters are pro-freedom and haters are anti-freedom.