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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?
- waterhouse0
How can it be a portfolio piece?
- mg330
- dopepope0
You gotta laugh at hard times
- cotton0
Why isn't this posted for us to see?
- monospaced0
Wait, is this THE Anthony Wallace?
- cbass990
"I've been just a tool"
- Miesfan0
It finally happened.
you've the client that you deserve.
- brandon_phillip0
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.
- ridg00260
^ 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>
- 20020
Is your design so bad that client has asked comic sans to rescue it?
- wagshaft0
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".
- loool0
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...monospaced
- and fucking treesloool
- isakosmo0
My favourite use of Comic Sans was in a newspaper ad for escort services in Mexico. I literally LOLed out loud.
- freshdude0
Now they're going to post it online and credit you.
- freshdude0
If this wasn't a personal favor, that's sad.
You need to get better clients.
- TheAnthonyWallace0
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).