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Last post: 1 year, 1 month ago | Thread started: May 1, 12, 1:47 p.m.

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• TheAnthonyWallace

  anyone who designs long enough will hear some of the stereotypical client responses: can you make the logo bigger? can you make the logo bigger again? can you make it blue, my wife really likes blue..

  but i finally got the holy grail of client responses: can you change the font to Comic Sans.

  no BS. they really asked for it. I nearly died.

  After the many horrible requests they have made (arrange a group of logos into a smiley face over a stock photo of a happy crowd was a good one), i just said F-it, and did what they asked. I've been just a tool in the project anyways, they wanted to art direct the entire process. So they got Comic Sans!

  needless to say, it's a portfolio piece

  what are some of the other ridiculous requests that you guys get?

  May 1, 12, 1:47 p.m. – Permalink

• waterhouse

  How can it be a portfolio piece?

  • sarcasm brah– TheAnthonyWallace

  

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  Dog-earMay 1, 12, 1:48 p.m. – Permalink

• mg33

  

  

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  Dog-earMay 1, 12, 1:48 p.m. – Permalink

• dopepope

  You gotta laugh at hard times

  

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  Dog-earMay 1, 12, 2:14 p.m. – Permalink

• cotton

  Why isn't this posted for us to see?

  

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  Dog-earMay 1, 12, 2:16 p.m. – Permalink

• monospaced

  Wait, is this THE Anthony Wallace?

  

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  Dog-earMay 1, 12, 2:20 p.m. – Permalink

• cbass99

  "I've been just a tool"

  

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  Dog-earMay 1, 12, 2:30 p.m. – Permalink

• Miesfan

  It finally happened.
  you've the client that you deserve.

  

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  Dog-earMay 1, 12, 2:33 p.m. – Permalink

• brandon_phillip

  Now you need to share the logo. The community needs to see this moniker of ghastliness. BTW - I actually had a client request Impact font, in 2011. Not a bad font, but way overused on the interwebz. Just as equally bad was being asked to use Papyrus in 2001.

  

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  Dog-earMay 1, 12, 2:36 p.m. – Permalink

• ridg0026

  ^ I've got clients that use impact AND comic sans -- the worst part is, now you'll start seeing it everywhere. literally everywhere. My parents christmas card this past year was in comic sans... <sigh>

  

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  Dog-earMay 1, 12, 2:40 p.m. – Permalink

• 2002

  Is your design so bad that client has asked comic sans to rescue it?

  

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  Dog-earMay 1, 12, 2:48 p.m. – Permalink

• wagshaft

  Perhaps it's time to start a thread collecting well executed comic sans examples. After all "it's not the font, it's how you use it".

  

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  Dog-earMay 1, 12, 2:53 p.m. – Permalink

• loool

  in the movie about painter Klimt they used comic sans for title typography, so there are people who actually like it
  

  

  • some people also like drinking other people's piss...– monospaced1/2

    and fucking trees– loool2/2

  

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  Dog-earMay 1, 12, 2:53 p.m. – Permalink

• isakosmo

  My favourite use of Comic Sans was in a newspaper ad for escort services in Mexico. I literally LOLed out loud.

  

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  Dog-earMay 1, 12, 3:05 p.m. – Permalink

• freshdude

  Now they're going to post it online and credit you.

  

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  Dog-earMay 1, 12, 3:43 p.m. – Permalink

• freshdude

  If this wasn't a personal favor, that's sad.

  You need to get better clients.

  

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  Dog-earMay 1, 12, 3:43 p.m. – Permalink

• mantrakid

  I have a client whos default email text is like 18pt comic sans. every single email. its like a mcdonalds fart every time i open my inbox.

  • HAhahaHHAHAHA macdonalds fart– vsplus1/2

    ask em to alternate the lines in yellow and red– tymeframe2/2

  

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  Dog-earMay 1, 12, 5:56 p.m. – Permalink

• TheAnthonyWallace

  to clarify, this was for a video project, and they wanted comic sans for the title bumpers and name titles.

  and to my credit, i DID get paid about $2000 to edit a video i did not shoot. its for a nonprofit client (i work freelance for a nonprofit support and marketing firm, it's their client).

  • so... you were just a tool– monospaced

  

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  Dog-earMay 2, 12, 12:01 p.m. – Permalink