helvetica is p awful

i don’t have any suggestions, but make sure your name/email signature is in a font at least twice as large as the email body font. it should also be in a color such as orange or purple.

There’s a new jazz bar opening up near my work. All its signage is in Comic Sans.

obviously the answer is papyrus

http://comicsansproject.tumblr.com

How is Helvetica “awful”? It’s like the most inoffensive font this side of Arial.

actually i do have a suggestion—check out a hot little number called kristen itc

zapf dingbats

omg we may have a winner with Papayrus, wau

although Kristen is kind of unbelievable too

wtf, font designers

the font designed for 9 year old girls!

kristen is like someone decided comic sans was great but too easy to read

helvetica is p awful

― Cooper Chucklebutt, Friday, December 16, 2011 4:24 PM

XD

Im a bit of a typography nerd, but I can’t hate Comic Sans, I think it’s good for what it was designed for: a readable, cartoony font.

I do lol at it being used in the wrong places, such as the CERN presentation earlier this week.

I’ve never been a fan of Hobo though:

what was that thread where some ilx ppl discussed some article by some wite person in possibly the new york times who said america in the 2010s ‘made some good fonts’ or something

or 2k0s

HAHA COMIC SANS AMIRITE is p much Community fan internet 101, and at this point worse than OMG BACON OM NOM NOM

yeah

Cooper Chucklebutt otm tho

whiney could u do a venn diagram of community fans, wite ppl and tumblr whites

i guess it would be like someone with mild myopia looking at a dinnerplate

poll: is whiney a tumblr white

Ha, Papyrus; used on every tapas bar menu iirc

Whiney, does being infatuated with a rhetorical style virtually indistinguishable from Colin Quinn ever get embarrassing for you?

papyrus is inescapable on restaurant signage

jokerman is pretty bad

I went to Wikipedia to find an example of Jokerman and was completely sidetracked by the discovery of a font named JIM CROW

I mean, seriously WHAT THE HELL

HAHA COMIC SANS AMIRITE is p much Community fan internet 101, and at this point worse than OMG BACON OM NOM NOM

just, bravo, I mean I have to bow down to the ability to shoehorn your pet hates into like every possible subject

I apologize to everyone on this board at whom I may have yelled in the past, because I am about 500% certain that none of you would have the gall to name a font fucking Jim Crow

Yeah, o_O at that one.

dangit, just came here to say Papyrus

i used to use that occasionally on ILX CHATZ to agitate

lol @ Jokerman btw:

My most-hated font is probably Algerian. Lots of businesses use it because it’s the most ~interesting~ font that comes standard in MS Word. But that also means it’s immediately recognizable as a font that comes standard in MS Word.

Like I have basically decided to boycott this bar:

lol

Speaking of a font businesses always seem to use, this is a big offender, and almost always looks rubbish:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/28/MS_Copperplate_Sample.PNG

gah!

lol the gotham font

possibly the only thing more obnoxious than trajan is that guy’s attitude xp

Papyrus is like the ultimate middlebrow analogue to Comic Sans’s lowbrow.

Maybe “middlebrow” is too generous. But you know, aspirational.

curlzzzzzzzzzzz

\(^o^)/

I actually kinda like Marker Felt. It’s pretty readable if there isn’t too much of it.

I saw it used in a company’s sign on their building a few years ago and thought, This is going to be the next Comic Sans, isn’t it?

marker felt looks good as hell right up there t-b-h

is papyrus the britta of fonts or is complaining about papyrus the britta of typing things into thei nternet

the answer is always the one with the internet in it

i like comic sans, its jaunty

actually i mostly just dont notice ‘fonts’

one time i installed some graffiti fonts on my computer and internet explorer got all graffed out lol, rip os9

I never thought about how many annoying fonts there were until now — Kristen seems particularly irritating for some reason.

yeah a couple of these made me wince

Is there such a thing as a good calligraphy/handwriting font? Like for recreating a fancy document for framing?

I am font-stupid to the maxxx and I have kind of tacky taste and I need someone with discerning taste to point me in the right direction for a project.

I saw it used in a company’s sign on their building a few years ago and thought, This is going to be the next Comic Sans, isn’t it?

RIP Marker Felt

YouTube Video

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Is there such a thing as a good calligraphy/handwriting font?

typophiles would say Zapfino but i’ve always found it a bit ugly

it’s no Gothic

Speaking of a font businesses always seem to use, this is a big offender, and almost always looks rubbish:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/28/MS_Copperplate_Sample.PNG

― Chewshabadoo, Friday, December 16, 2011 6:45 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Permalink

I totally guessed this before even seeing it.

Was actually complaining about it earlier today.

I’ve seen some pretty bad examples lately, but I feel like the fucking ACT UP website should maybe have a little more typographic dignity...

Ok, in all fairness it’s only a few instances, and nowhere near the main page (which is itself marked by an angelfire level html primitivism (that’s kind of endearing actually)) but still.

Is there such a thing as a good calligraphy/handwriting font?

Suomi Hand is an amazing casual handwriting font—especially if you use an application with open type support for automatic glyph switching.

http://typophile.com/files/SuomiHand-sample.pdf

problem is handwriting doesnt look like a font, its irregular w/variations in how letters are written depending on where they come in a word which letter they abut and randomness, so when you have a uniform system trying to imitate that it just ends up looking cloying and fake

that one is p good tho! lol

handwriting fonts just rely on endless amounts of ligatures but its like isn’t that a lot of work why not just write things

well if you have to create the font yrself its prob not worth it

Comic Sans is partially responsible for creation of Jerkcity, this fact makes up for every sin that has been committed using this font

The embedded youtube link above is the first time I’ve clicked/heard/seen the clip for Blink 182’s ‘I Miss You’.

Zapfino is an illegible tech demo.

handwriting fonts just rely on endless amounts of ligatures but its like isn’t that a lot of work why not just write things

Opentype allows for software to automatically switch ligatures depending on context or random choice.