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Originally Posted by hobnail
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Y'know, seriously--the whole Comic Sans thing. It's grossly overdone. People go apes**t about it, as if you've committed some cardinal sin, by using it. Well, the laugh's on them--studies have repeatedly shown that CS is highly readable, particularly by those who are children or who have reading difficulties.
I'm honestly over the whole "OMG, how could you use that FONT!"
Sturm und Drang of book (and other) designers. It's fallow and shallow and idiotic.
It's snobbery and...ugh. Designers see font. Designers luv font. (Yes,
Papyrus and
Bleeding Cowboys, you two know I'm lookin' at YOU!) And they think that they are
so cool,
so hip, in the now, grad of Parsons and all that drivel. ("Gimme that Avenir Next!")
But then--GASP!--OH NO! The
hoi polloi discover it! Auntie Em down at the Grocery has a sign out, for apricots, in--eeeek!--Papyrus! James Cameron will strike them dead for the heresy! The world as we know it has been corrupted by the dirty little people who have no design sense!
The moment some regular, un-degreed, not-genius-designer person uses that formerly-speshul font, then it's
"OH DEAD TO ME."
Get over yourselves, designers. I've strictly forbidden
any talk like that at my shop. Won't have it. Just because Auntie Em liked a font doesn't mean it doesn't have its place any longer in the pantheon of font usage. Are there fonts I loathe? OH, YES, sure (and being the boss, I can ban 'em whenever I wish, that's why I make the little bucks), but that's not due to the dirty-little-people using them. :-)
What a bunch of fatuous posing. I just cannot
take that stuff any longer.
Mea culpa, /rant.
Hitch