Is it really fair to hate Comic sans?

[ArtisTheFox]

I stumbled across this funny site today- I believe it's very relevant to this discussion!

https://www.comicsans.love/

[Absentmind]

When i first started my Graphic design course one of the first things my lecturer said was "First rule of Graphic Design, dont use comic sans" and everyone laughed. Yeah its a bit of a joke, its more about how culturally its not viewed as a proffesional level typeface and is associated with amatuerity.

What im saying is Comic sans is the cutural antagonist to capitalism  

[manpaint]

When i first started my Graphic design course one of the first things my lecturer said was "First rule of Graphic Design, dont use comic sans" and everyone laughed. Yeah its a bit of a joke, its more about how culturally its not viewed as a proffesional level typeface and is associated with amatuerity.

What im saying is Comic sans is the cutural antagonist to capitalism  

As someone who also studied in graphic design, I can also confirm that the same exact thing happened too.

[Absentmind]

Thought of this thread when reading a post from itsnicethat today regarding comic-sans being the butt of the joke by designers.

(https://www.itsnicethat.com/news/dyslexia-scotland-theres-nothing-comic-about-dyslexia-graphic-design-051022)

After reading the post, I myself am dyslexic and honestly I find this somewhat to be an attempt at pandering and rather apolitical. I've never fallen to my knees and been like "If only this was written in comic sans!!" Sure dyslexic typefaces do help of course, but is comic sans really a saving grace? interested to hear what others have to say!

[debleb]

I think it's a perfectly fine font myself. It's good for its purpose and I actually quite like how it looks. I use it on my website, and I think it gives it a bit of a casual hand-written look without being overly flowery or "professional" looking like many other handwriting style fonts are. That said I think it has places where it's appopriate, like personal websites and other more casual things, and places where it's not, like workplaces or professional websites. But that goes for all decorative fonts or generally less standard-looking fonts.

[worldwidewar]

I feel like Comic Sans is just sort of the Nickelback of fonts. It's fun to make fun of and use jokingly, but I don't know if anyone legitimately hates it. Apparently it's a better font than most when it comes to readability, but that's hear-say on my part. I'm not a font specialist.

[JackFrost]

no. I love comic sans. Best font. Sadly its hard 2 read so I wont use it on my site

[SilkSkull]

In a professional setting, I despise it. In a design perspective and anywhere else, I LOVE IT

[Lost_cat]

comic sans might look ugly,but people with dyslexia find it more easy to read it than normal fonts.

[Guest]

I worked as a graphic designer for a while and what's been mentioned by fellow designers above absolutely rings true.

But it doesn't deserve the hate it gets. It's not my aesthetic so I'm not likely to use it in any personal projects or anything but I honestly like seeing it around. It was so, so prevalent growing up that it's honestly like a comfort font. Seeing other people use it makes me kind of feel at home.

[Corrupted Unicorn]

Not gonna lie, I love Comic Sans. It's informal and casual in a world that demands professionalism all the time (being professional is good, but there's a time and place for everything!  ). It's also a great shorthand to show that you're being silly or tacky on purpose.

My earliest memory of it was being the default font of a series of eduntainment games I played a lot as a kid and that I'm preserving nowadays, so it brings warm memories 

[LittleGr33nIMP]

I stumbled across this funny site today- I believe it's very relevant to this discussion!

https://www.comicsans.love/

OOOH thanks for sharing this site, love it! Now in my bookmarks. 

Personally I think it gets too much hate.

It's just whimsical to me. Reminds me of when I used to write random stories on my family's old pc when I was a kid. It also reminds me of Rover (the yellow dog) that would sometimes be in the side of the explorer when you searched for something. Fun fact: I made a userstyle and set the font for all the text on the forum to be set as comic sans. I love it.

Now that I found this thread now I just want to make a theme for my site that only uses comic sans lol.

TLDR: I really like it and you can take it from my cold dead hands.

[brisray]

I think it just got overused and used in the wrong context. It looks fine in it's place.

Personally I don't like Roboto. But considering it's a Google font and been used on every Andreoid device since 2011 what do I know?

[Guest]

I am gonna go against the stream here and state that Comic Sans MS is not a font that is really well designed in my opinion. It's too close to a formal-looking sans-serif font to be really whimsical, and too whimsical to have any application in a serious place. Plus all of the inconsistencies within its design drive me mad.

Just look at the lower-case m.

I think fonts like Baby Doll here on the forums are much better for this purpose.

[Guest]

Sorry for double posting, but I really just had to mention Comic Serif: