{"id":39,"date":"2009-12-13T14:15:34","date_gmt":"2009-12-13T22:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=39"},"modified":"2010-11-21T20:57:08","modified_gmt":"2010-11-22T04:57:08","slug":"why-i-hate-comic-sans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/archives\/2009\/12\/13\/why-i-hate-comic-sans\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I hate Comic Sans"},"content":{"rendered":"

I admit that I hate Comic Sans partially as an attempt to be an elitist snob. Being on the bandwagon is amusing. But mostly I hate it because I think it’s an ugly font. It feels strange; it looks too mechanical to be mistaken for handwriting, but it’s not as neat, clean, and formal as a normal typewritten font. It’s in the uncanny valley of typefaces.<\/p>\n

In an interview with The Wall Street Journal<\/i>, its creator, Vincent Connare, said<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\nIf you love it, you don’t know much about typography… if you hate it, you really don’t know much about typography, either, and you should get another hobby.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m only a wanna-be typographer and typophile, but I think Comic Sans doesn’t offend me as much as a typeface enthusiast as it does as a comic book reader. Connare designed it to mimic comic book lettering, but it doesn’t look like real lettering from comic books<\/strong>. Let’s look at some samples from some prolific comic book letterers:<\/p>\n