Defending the typographic downtrodden

Scott-Martin Kosofsky
Scott-Martin Kosofsky Posts: 425
in Miscellaneous News
This appeared today on the Washington Post’s op-ed page:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/10/25/i-dont-care-what-others-say-this-is-typeface-me/?arc404=true

Given the rest of today's news, I wouldn't be surprised if someone suggests resetting the State of Liberty's inscription—or the Magna Carta—in Comic Sans.

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  • Chris Lozos
    Chris Lozos Posts: 1,459
    Life is too short to debate the merits of Comic Sans any more than has been done for these many years. ;-)
  • Paul Miller
    Paul Miller Posts: 273
    meh ...
  • Hrant Հրանդ Փափազեան Papazian
    Hrant Հրանդ Փափազեան Papazian Posts: 2,044
    Every presidential candidate bottles up an urge to set their campaign in Comic Sans...
  • Vasil Stanev
    Vasil Stanev Posts: 784
    The site wants me to pay to view.
  • K Pease
    K Pease Posts: 182
    I didn't pay to read it either but I can tell you what it says. "Why oh why do people dislike Comic Sans when they could just like it instead because fonts don't really matter. There are no good or bad fonts. All questions of taste boil down to popularity versus elitism. I am making a case for popularity and taking a stand against elitism. There are at most five fonts I can think of and this one is fun. Between me, pleading for sympathy for this font as if it were a living victim, and you, thinking that design matters, you are the obsessive psycho who cares too much about fonts. And anyway I heard it cures dyslexia so how about that."
  • John Savard
    John Savard Posts: 1,154
    Apparently a political official working for Donald Trump used Comic Sans to notify the House of Representatives that certain Administration officials would not be testifying. This being viewed as an insult, the article was written by someone who noted that while opinions can be changed, taste is an inherent quality of an individual, so it is painful to be accused of poor taste. Apparently he likes the fact that Comic Sans has generous spacing between the letters.
  • Hrant Հրանդ Փափազեան Papazian
    Hrant Հրանդ Փափազեան Papazian Posts: 2,044
    The best one though was when India sent a funeral wreath for a venerated Pakistani statesman set in Comic Sans.
  • André G. Isaak
    André G. Isaak Posts: 636
    Scott-Martin Kosofsky said:

    Given the rest of today's news, I wouldn't be surprised if someone suggests resetting the State of Liberty's inscription—or the Magna Carta—in Comic Sans.
    But that would be wrong. I have the original of the Magna Carta and it's clearly set in Apple Casual, not Comic Sans.
  • Chris Lozos
    Chris Lozos Posts: 1,459
    André, well said ;-)

  • John Savard
    John Savard Posts: 1,154
    Hrant H. Papazian said:
    The best one though was when India sent a funeral wreath for a venerated Pakistani statesman set in Comic Sans.
    I find it hard to appreciate the humor of something that has a risk, even if small, of starting a war.

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