Comic Sans
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I agree with this. I don't think that it's Comic Sans that is particularly flawed. It does have it's uses. At heart is a simple, cheap, legable font.
However, the problem is that it's overused, and likewise almost seemingly by those who are unaware of design.
So you have to ask youself, why is such an ugly font used so much? Simple, it's bundled with Windows and has thus became a "standard" of sorts. Everyone has access to this thing - as designers, we have bucketloads of fonts in the dropdown menu, as a normal computer user, Comic Sans is one of the few in your arsenal - and it does look unique among the others.
Comic San's has always reminded me of an unexperienced designer thas using a PC. Becuase if you notice, Comic Sans is not part of the Apple universe - Apple knew better than to include this stinker with the OS. Apples equivelent to Comic Sans would probably be Chicago (which is a decent font).
If you were to replace Comic Sans with an attractive font that could communicate the same message (fun, soft, etc.) then you would without doubt see Comic Sans virtually disappear from design.
So is Comic Sans is a bad font? No. Like someone said there really are no bad font's, they all have a use.
Is bundeling Coming Sans with an OS that is installed on billions of computers worldwide a good idea? No it's not. you may as well put a free slim jim in every box of Windows.