comic sans
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- linearch
i just say it and start laughing.....
- canuck0
It has its use.
- blastofv0
It has its use.
canuck
(Jun 22 06, 11:44)DESIGN BLASPHEMY!
- canuck0
It's true.
Young children learning how to read can develop better printing skills, when reading printed text that uses comic sans - or a similar font.
The letter formation is similar to that of what they teach children in primary school.
- t_rock0
I'm sure all the little toddlers who are reading this thread would be happier if it were in Comic Sans...me? not so much.
- canuck0
werd.
- blastofv0
OK Canuck, fair enough. I have a 3 yr old who may very well come across it, but I'll be sure to teach her that at its core, it's en evil typeface.
She's also well on her way with the 'we hate the Yankees' brainwashing
- canuck0
It is pretty evil. I must admit that.
- digilee0
read down ...
- flavorful0
comic sans
i just say it and start laughing.....
linearch
(Jun 22 06, 11:33)// linearch = racist.
- uncle_helv0
There is nothing funny about comic sans™
- grown-sexy0
ironic sans...
- rafalski0
digilee, omg!
"Poor Comic Sans, the George Bush of fonts!"
- Concrete0
I do a quite a lot of nursery/kindergarten webistes.
So I'm always asked to use comic sans.
*cough
But I try to use a nicer alternative like these
http://littleangels.parentaprevi…
Always talk a client out of using it!
- Mojo0
There is no good or bad, just appropriate.
Comic sans is appropriate for a nursery, not for a cafe menu. Unless it's a really shit cafe.
Which is fine.
x
- kelpie0
God help a child who's parents teach her about 'evil typefaces'.
- normal0
I used it recently. But I used as a very effective, need an image here placeholder. The agency I was working for provided the missing image rather quickly.
- Baskerville0
How is comic sans appropriate for a nursery?
I hate this idea that because you're designing for children, you have to make it look like it's been written by a child. Children's writing is probably the worst for other children to learn to read from. They need to build up a mental image of what each letter should look like.
I nice serif with a largish s-height would be much better to learn from.Rosmary Sassoon (who design sassoon primary) spent her life designing typefaces to help children learn to write. But that is a very different task from learning to read:
http://www.identifont.com/show?3…
If you're from the UK you probably spent a lot of time at school tracing her typefaces (dotted lines)
Anyway, back to Comic Sans.
It was designed to look like the narrative text from comic books (the ones that say 'later', or 'then'.
But there are so many typefaces that do that look a million times better:
http://www.blambot.com/fonts.sht…THERE IS NO NEED FOR COMIC SANS!!!
- Concrete0
Amen, Baskerville.
- Fariska0
True, there's no need, especially when you have good alternatives:
http://www.bancomicsans.com/font…Have to do a cartoon with baloon and comic stuff and i went straight to that site.
- Jaline0
Some of these fonts are similar to printing exercises done in school, so they could be useful for children to imitate: