kelanich asked: I will never understand people hating Comic Sans. They're saying it's breaking some font rules and I like "vat?"
Same here. I’m pretty sure it simply started with some basic elitist hate that turned into a bandwagon that all the elitist typographers hopped onto, hoping they could be cool guys too.
Sure, you don’t want to write a paper with it. But that applies to ANY DESIGN FONT. And that’s exactly what it is, a design. If someone doesn’t like it, fine. More power to them.
But like any art form, don’t turn your noses up in disgust at it. That’s snobbish and narcissistic.
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Hello! I was the one who asked about the Comic Sans. (I made it anonymous just because nobody needs to go to my blog from Ambris's SFW blog. [Well, there's a chance that someone might go through the notes, but... Okay, I didn't really think it through. XD])
Anyway, I don't hate Comic Sans; as a matter of fact, I love it for comics. (I can't draw, but if I did make a comic I'd use it since my handwriting is terrible.)
The thing I hate is that it's often terribly misused. (Take CERN's reports of the Higgs Boson or a Flickr group with usage of Comic Sans (with varying degress of [im]propriety).) I asked because some people just don't realize what font they're using (which might explain why it's so often misused). (Maybe they just focus on the forms of the letters and don't pay attention to the names of the fonts.)
About "font rules": Actually, some say Comic Sans doesn't follow certain rules for "good" type (such as kerning and stroke thickness), but it's supposed to resemble handwriting, which, unless it's for calligraphy, doesn't follow those rules.
As to the propriety of the use for the specific case I asked about (the "Donations" text)... I'm a bit mixed. If it's supposed to be "comic-like" but you don't want to use your own handwriting, go for it.