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Re: Comic Sans may be banned!
« Reply #30 on: April 20, 2009, 12:51:32 am »

I'd like to see them try and ban a font, that would be like trying to fight software piracy.  :P
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Re: Comic Sans may be banned!
« Reply #31 on: April 20, 2009, 01:18:30 am »

 Times New Roman is overused, everything uses it. It's not even terribly well designed. I say we ban it.
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« Reply #32 on: April 20, 2009, 01:34:54 am »

The problem is that Comic Sans is used not just too much, but inappropriately.

It was meant as a kiddie comic-book font. Yet it's being used on hospital signs, legal papers, and tombstones.
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« Reply #33 on: April 20, 2009, 02:12:49 am »

It was meant as a kiddie comic-book font. Yet it's being used on hospital signs, legal papers, and tombstones.

If I died and people adorned my tombstone with a font like Comic Sans, I would rise from the grave and enact bloody, terrible revenge. No one would be left standing.
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« Reply #34 on: April 20, 2009, 02:56:06 am »

Nothing less than Helvetica will be used on my Tombstone.
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Re: Comic Sans may be banned!
« Reply #35 on: April 20, 2009, 02:57:30 am »

If you're that bothered about it, just ask people to not use it on your tombstone.
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« Reply #36 on: April 20, 2009, 03:36:38 am »

Where's the love for Georgia?
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« Reply #37 on: April 20, 2009, 03:38:19 am »

You will all bow before the might of Arial Black.
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« Reply #38 on: April 20, 2009, 03:57:50 am »

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Ban comic sans? Pah pah pah. It's just a standard font that people use. They have a bunch of choices; arial, Times new roman, helvetica, comic sans. If you want something fancy, then you look for something else. If you don't, you take one of those.
So yeah, if you use comic sans, you're lazy. But the same applies to arial and such. Just cos comic sans wasn't 'meant' to be one of them doesn't mean they should ban it.
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« Reply #39 on: April 20, 2009, 04:05:00 am »

You will all bow before the might of Arial Black.

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« Reply #40 on: April 20, 2009, 04:19:48 am »

Good point about the l-shaped I-s. This is why I like to capitalize properly in all circumstances.

So, this thread has me looking through the font list in microsoft word, trying out the various typefaces. I also finally learned how to change the default typeface (Yay, no more nasty Calibri!).

I'm kind of liking Cambria as a general use font.
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« Reply #41 on: April 20, 2009, 07:28:44 am »

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« Reply #42 on: April 20, 2009, 07:45:41 am »

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« Reply #43 on: April 20, 2009, 10:48:37 am »

Gentlemen, please. Times New Roman is the only font. Comic Sans is simply lazy, and Ariel Bold is so vulgar.
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« Reply #44 on: April 20, 2009, 10:49:36 am »

I cannot hear you over the sound of how bold I am.
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