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Tears of a Clown: The Anti-Comic Sans Movement
Filed under: Looked Into Tagged: Cameron Chapman, Comic Sans, fonts, Lexia Readable, Pollux, typography, Vincent Connare
Pollux writes:
We continue our coverage of the odium aimed at the font everyone loves to hate. No, not you, Take Out the Garbage. I mean of course Comic Sans.
Cameron Chapman, on the blog Six Revisions, writes about why Comic Sans is hated so much, and shows some interesting visual examples of when the font has been used inappropriately. Chapman mentions that Comic Sans has seen wide and inappropriate usage, from a sign for a bone marrow transplant clinic to a grave marker.
Chapman also offers some alternatives to Comic Sans, like Lexia Readable. In the meantime, Comic Sans remains at large. Emdashes has committed an additional 30,000 typographers to address the problem.
