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Everywhere I go I see this stupid AI gen font (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 days ago by to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
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I don’t even know what it’s called, but I really hope it goes the way of Comic Sans

Edit: does anyone actually know what this awful font is called?

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[–] 46 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I personally didn't think Comic Sans was bad, just overused, especially in contexts where it didn't belong. (Funeral homes should have been banned from using it by industry regulation. They never did that. Anywhere in the world. This is why we need multinational legislation.)

This font, whatever the hell it is called, besmirches the good name of hand lettered sign painting and advertising that was common in advertising before computer typography. Have you seen old hand lettered ads? Unless they were in great hurry, they never left brush edges visible to this extent. It looked sloppy.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    Best use of comic sans I can recall was the OG Higgs boson discovery presentation in 2012

    https://indico.cern.ch/event/197461/contributions/1478916/attachments/290953/406671/ATLAS_Higgs-CERN-seminar-2012.pdf

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  • [–] 14 points 2 days ago

    Yeah, that's always the exception to the rule.

    If you're going to give a presentation that will change the world as we know it for the better, well, nobody gives a shit what font you will use. Go wild.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 days ago

    It's especially important to understand that in the early days of computing you only had a single system font or a tiny font pack of less than 10. Microsoft used a tiny pack that had Arial as their sans-serif, Times New Roman as their serif, Courier New as their monospace, and two symbol fonts. Of the three real fonts, two were incredibly computery, leaving Times New Roman as the friendliest font available.

    Microsoft then set out to make a family-friendly cartoon-themed OS and set the entire OS in TNR. One of their designers took issue with it and designed Comic Sans to be a viable OS font that felt friendly and suited comic art. He was a bit late in starting, so it shipped with TNR and immediately failed, but Comic Sans ended up shipping with some versions of 95, then became a default font in Internet Explorer and Win98. As a result, it was the only friendly font on the average computer for ages.

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