Why would the movie Avatar, for example, use a font that was designed to make text appear 2000 years old when the movie takes place over 100 years in the future? Oh, sure, Papyrus is a hated font, too, but not not nearly as much as Comic Sans. This argument makes sense to me, but Papyrus has been used inappropriately, too. It was not intended to be used for danger of death signs, chemotherapy treatment labels, airline logos, or church signs (see below). After all, it was designed to mimic comic book lettering from days of old and was intended by Microsoft (who paid to have the font created) to be used as the official typography of their user-friendly, and somewhat childish, graphic interface, Microsoft Bob. Or, maybe, we might argue that Comic Sans is hated because it is used so inappropriately (like wearing cutoff jeans to a wedding). They may not be the sexiest fonts, but they don’t carry the animosity with them that Comic Sans does. But how far can that argument take us? Times New Roman and Arial are widely overused, too. According to this argument, Comic Sans is to typography as Billy Ray Cyrus was to country music in the 90s and is today-overplayed then, out of date and simply uncool now. It’s easy to make the assumption that Comic Sans is hated because it is cliché or passé. I can’t help but ask how a typeface can get to that point. ![]() When it comes to design and aesthetic preference, can you think of many other design choices that are so widely and collectively viewed as just plain bad, in any context, as using Comic Sans? Comic Sans has acquired such a high status of hatred in our society that it has become unacceptable to use anywhere, at any time, for any reason whatsoever. ![]() Perhaps it goes without saying: Comic Sans is the number-one most hated typeface on this planet.
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