COMIC SANS?
seriously though, people really seem to despise it ._.

Edited May 26, 201411 yr by Col.Random

Because it's uglier than the Ugly Barnacle.  Keep in mind that the Ugly Barnacle is so ugly that everyone died because of it.  Be a hero--don't let others use Comic Sans.

I don't know why, it bothers me when I look at Comic Sans in a small font, but not when it's large...

It was originally created to appeal to children (which I think everyone when they were a kid were all like OH BABY GET ME SOME COMIC SANS WORD ART WITH RAINBOW GRADIENT MOTHER firetruckERS), everyone used it, for like everything til the point they got sick of it.  Also with it's "child-like" feel, being non-serious and non-sophisticated, it's use on serious materials seems like a mockery given it's carefree nature.  Such as:

 

• Sorry your husband died xox
• You got the aids Mr Dinkle
• I think I accidentally burnt your house down.  
• Pedophile, Rapey McRapester got released from BooRaping Prison and will be living beside a playground
• Mum's got terminal cancer

 

So basically, Comic Sans is perfectly fine for children or "silly" material, but when it's serious or professional it's a no-no, but whether it's poorly skilled person with little computer skill just quickly throwing together a typed note/email or adults letting their kids throw together banners/letters/notices like that, it irks people to use a "childish" font.

 

Comic sans is dyslexic friendly font though.  The heavy weighting on the bottom helps distinguish the letters for those with dyslexia (and kids too). There are other dyslexic friendly fonts though.

Edited May 26, 201411 yr by Caity Raindrop

It was originally created to appeal to children (which I think everyone when they were a kid were all like OH BABY GET ME SOME COMIC SANS WORD ART WITH RAINBOW GRADIENT MOTHER firetruckERS), everyone used it, for like everything til the point they got sick of it.  Also with it's "child-like" feel, being non-serious and non-sophisticated, it's use on serious materials seems like a mockery given it's carefree nature.  Such as:

 

• Sorry your husband died xox
• You got the aids Mr Dinkle
• I think I accidentally burnt your house down.  
• Pedophile, Rapey McRapester got released from BooRaping Prison and will be living beside a playground
• Mum's got terminal cancer

 

So basically, Comic Sans is perfectly fine for children or "silly" material, but when it's serious or professional it's a no-no, but whether it's poorly skilled person with little computer skill just quickly throwing together a typed note/email or adults letting their kids throw together banners/letters/notices like that, it irks people to use a "childish" font.

 

Comic sans is dyslexic friendly font though.  The heavy weighting on the bottom helps distinguish the letters for those with dyslexia (and kids too). There are other dyslexic friendly fonts though.

Pretty much this. Although in Year 7 we had an ICT teacher who INSISTED on using Comic Sans for EVERYTHING because he thought it looked professional. Even 11 year old me and my class looked at him in confusion.

I just prefer Times New Roman.  :mellow: 

It's professional... 

Edited May 26, 201411 yr by RikuFangirl2008

Pretty much this. Although in Year 7 we had an ICT teacher who INSISTED on using Comic Sans for EVERYTHING because he thought it looked professional. Even 11 year old me and my class looked at him in confusion.

 

Was he old?  When it first came out it was loved for it's simplicity and easy to read lettering.  With the movement of 1998(I think) there was (still is) an attempt to ban it, and that kept growing in popularity where most younger people (from after it was just released) are made aware of it's unprofessional feel, instead of that "what a lovely simple font" feeling.  My teacher insisted Arial/Times size 12 because that is essay standard with double spacing after sentences, actually find the only people who go and change it to Comic Sans really are just trying to waste time cause they don't know what to write, I use the default whenever I open Word which I think is Calibri 10

Was he old?  When it first came out it was loved for it's simplicity and easy to read lettering.  With the movement of 1998(I think) there was (still is) an attempt to ban it, and that kept growing in popularity where most younger people (from after it was just released) are made aware of it's unprofessional feel, instead of that "what a lovely simple font" feeling.  My teacher insisted Arial/Times size 12 because that is essay standard with double spacing after sentences, actually find the only people who go and change it to Comic Sans really are just trying to waste time cause they don't know what to write, I use the default whenever I open Word which I think is Calibri 10

Yup Calibri (body) is default, I think its 11 though. He was middle-aged so he wasn't that old I guess. When I was younger I never really liked Comic sans just because of how big it was. I always used Word Art to make my work look cool in Primary School. But for ICT in A level I just use the common Calibri just because it's the right size to fit a lot on one page with it still being readable (which is useful when doing 5,000 word evaluations for ICT). I'm dreading what I'll have to do for it when I'm at Uni.

 

Comic Sans is usually used in Satire now a days and I rarely see it being used seriously. I never liked the font myself, but I guess it's okay for people with visual impairment or for very young children. It sure beats the hell out of WingDings!

NOTHING WRONG WITH COMIC SANS

 

omg

Yup Calibri (body) is default, I think its 11 though. He was middle-aged so he wasn't that old I guess. When I was younger I never really liked Comic sans just because of how big it was. I always used Word Art to make my work look cool in Primary School. But for ICT in A level I just use the common Calibri just because it's the right size to fit a lot on one page with it still being readable (which is useful when doing 5,000 word evaluations for ICT). I'm dreading what I'll have to do for it when I'm at Uni.

 

Comic Sans is usually used in Satire now a days and I rarely see it being used seriously. I never liked the font myself, but I guess it's okay for people with visual impairment or for very young children. It sure beats the hell out of WingDings!

 

I tended to use the Script fonts a lot when I was younger, since in my head, it was that it's typed by looks like my hand writing.  At A Level I used Plain Word Art for title pages since it took up more space and long as you stayed in the one color scheme, it still looked professional, i.e

 

(now I have custom fonts installed, but really I rarely open Word since starting Uni, always in Eclipse instead) What are you planning to do in University?  

The same person made both Comic Sans and Wingdings

I tended to use the Script fonts a lot when I was younger, since in my head, it was that it's typed by looks like my hand writing.  At A Level I used Plain Word Art for title pages since it took up more space and long as you stayed in the one color scheme, it still looked professional, i.e

 

(now I have custom fonts installed, but really I rarely open Word since starting Uni, always in Eclipse instead) What are you planning to do in University?  

The same person made both Comic Sans and Wingdings

I need to increase my knowledge of word fonts! And I'm doing ICT at University. I dunno what exact job I want out of it. But ICT has always been my best subject so I wanna take advantage of that I guess (except last year where it went horribly) but improving my coursework by A LOT this year has stapled what I really wanna do. The interview went pretty well so even if I do screw up with the rest of my subjects, if my ICT is good then it should all be good from there.

 

So the short answer basically being ICT. involving stuff like Web design, networking etc.

I need to increase my knowledge of word fonts! And I'm doing ICT at University. I dunno what exact job I want out of it. But ICT has always been my best subject so I wanna take advantage of that I guess (except last year where it went horribly) but improving my coursework by A LOT this year has stapled what I really wanna do. The interview went pretty well so even if I do screw up with the rest of my subjects, if my ICT is good then it should all be good from there.

 

So the short answer basically being ICT. involving stuff like Web design, networking etc.

 

I didn't have to attend any interviews with Uni (thank god, I'm terrible at them), but if you have more interviews, a good question I remember reading for when they ask "Well have you got any questions" is "Why would you recommend this course?" since it shows interest or something.  I've forgotten by now.

 

  I'm doing Computer Science, and with my University all CIT (ICT, don't know why they flipped the letters at Uni, most secondary schools say ICT), BIT, Computer Science, Computer Games Development students all do the same first year, and for us there was 1 assignment that had to get written up in Word (and that was the last part of a brand new module being taught that was literally, the course you just learnt, make some questions based on it and it'll get peer marked), the rest was coding/making websites/writing Java programs/doing online assessments really to show you have some programming experience when it comes to asking for programs/bossing around code monkeys, and from second year onwards there's much less coding in CIT, more project management skills but they get paid more (but will take the fall if shit hits the fan).

I didn't have to attend any interviews with Uni (thank god, I'm terrible at them), but if you have more interviews, a good question I remember reading for when they ask "Well have you got any questions" is "Why would you recommend this course?" since it shows interest or something.  I've forgotten by now.

 

  I'm doing Computer Science, and with my University all CIT (ICT, don't know why they flipped the letters at Uni, most secondary schools say ICT), BIT, Computer Science, Computer Games Development students all do the same first year, and for us there was 1 assignment that had to get written up in Word (and that was the last part of a brand new module being taught that was literally, the course you just learnt, make some questions based on it and it'll get peer marked), the rest was coding/making websites/writing Java programs/doing online assessments really to show you have some programming experience when it comes to asking for programs/bossing around code monkeys, and from second year onwards there's much less coding in CIT, more project management skills but they get paid more (but will take the fall if shit hits the fan).

Computing was a option at my Sixth Form but I don't really like coding myself. Maybe cause I haven't done it enough. I have gotten better through doing website development but I really need to improve on it. At my interview, the person who interviewed me was actually the head of ICT there and recommended I did just Web development as he liked my website which I had to develop as a part of my course (among other things) but I decided just to stick with ICT as it's more broad, I don't want to do one specific thing in case I'm not any good at it later on in the line or if I can't find any work for it. 

 

I also was originally going to do Indie Games development but cancelled my interview for it at the same University as I mainly want to focus on ICT and I don't know the first thing about programming, I have concepts and ideas just not knowing how to apply them. I'm looking forward to actually focusing on the thing I wanna do at Uni though, compared to Psychology and Philosophy at A level which I couldn't care less about as they aren't for me. (which is a fault on my behalf for choosing them)

I like this one, as well as

This one, too

Comic Sans is cool, everyone's just jealous that their font's not as good as this one.