AwayWeGo's favorite font to be banned

[Vacation Dude]

Sorry Alan,

It appears that they are trying to outlaw your favorite font - the ugly "Comic Sans" font.

Vincent Connare designed the ubiquitous, bubbly Comic Sans typeface, but he sympathizes with the world-wide movement to ban it.

The font, a casual script designed to look like comic-book lettering, is the bane of graphic designers, other aesthetes and Internet geeks. It is a punch line: "Comic Sans walks into a bar, bartender says, 'We don't serve your type.'"

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123992364819927171.html?mod=yhoofront

 

[pjrose]

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[CarolF]

Sorry Alan,

It appears that they are trying to outlaw your favorite font - the ugly "Comic Sans" font.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123992364819927171.html?mod=yhoofront

Oh NO. It's that crazy font that identifies Alan's posts. I love reading them. How will I ever find him if it gets banned :annoyed:

 

[Talent312]

They've been trying to ban it for ~ 10 years. So, far MS doesn't seem to be listening.
But I could get by with only Times New Roman & Arial.

 

[Fletcher921]

i love comic sans...

 

[Vacation Dude]

i love comic sans...

I think the use of that font in moderation is fine, I just HATE reading every post or a ton of text with this font in an enlarged font.

Shux.......I am not picking on Alan......I just don't like his"font"

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[AwayWeGo]

Enlarged Is In The Eye Of The Beholder.

I just HATE reading every post or a ton of text with this font in an enlarged font.

Shux, if you don't care for it in Size 3, I suspect you'd really dislike it in Size 1 or 2 (too hard to read) & supremely detest it in Size 4 or larger (takes up too much space).

So it goes.

What's really surprising is that with the variety of type styles easily available on vBulletin, so many TUG-BBS participants just stick with the plain-vanilla "default" style that pops up automatically.

Try'm. You might like'm.

-- Alan Cole, McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.​

 

[DebBrown]

I think the use of that font in moderation is fine, I just HATE reading every post or a ton of text with this font in an enlarged font.

Shux.......I am not picking on Alan......I just don't like his"font"

:hysterical: :rofl: :hysterical:

OK... I'm coming out of the closet. I hate the font too. In fact, I can't read Alan's posts if they are longer than a few sentences. Sorry!

Deb

 

[Icarus]

so many TUG-BBS participants just stick with the plain-vanilla "default" style that pops up automatically.

-- Alan Cole, McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.​

aka, I have a life?

The article was kind of funny.

-David

 

[AwayWeGo]

Perfectly O. K. -- You're Not Missing Much.

I can't read Alan's posts if they are longer than a few sentences.

No problem.

Hardly any contain anything original or informative or even semi-entertaining.

-- Alan Cole, McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.​

 

[AwayWeGo]

Where There's A Will, There's A Way.

How will I ever find him if it gets banned

Just look for the little alligator.

-- Alan Cole, McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.​

 

[Rose Pink]

Hmmm . . . of all the things to get upset about. I have no problem with this font. Never even thought about it until this thread.

 

[Vacation Dude]

OK... I'm coming out of the closet. I hate the font too. In fact, I can't read Alan's posts if they are longer than a few sentences. Sorry!

Deb

Ah-ha...now the truth comes out. Time for a poll.

 

[Glynda]

Me too...

i love comic sans...

Me too, it's one of my favorites.

 

[Vacation Dude]

Here is a website dedicated to banning the font
http://www.bancomicsans.com/home.html

Hmmm . . . of all the things to get upset about. I have no problem with this font. Never even thought about it until this thread.

I am not upset, I just don't like reading every AwayWeGo post in that ugly font. I think he is the only TUGer who posts 100% in that font and he POSTS A LOT.

Me too, it's one of my favorites.

ok, then reset your computer to display all the threads to that font, all your MS Word docs, and try reading a newspaper in it....you will then put it on your hit list very quickly.

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Can someone create a Poll with this question - Should we ban the MS Comic font?

yes or no

 

[Rose Pink]

I wasn't saying that you, specifically, were upset. I was addressing the whole movement. I don't find the font ugly. And, if I am going to get upset over something, it better be more earth-shattering than someone's choice of font--maybe something like world hunger or the abuse of women and children.

 

[Rose Pink]

I am not upset, I just don't like reading every AwayWeGo post in that ugly font. I think he is the only TUGer who posts 100% in that font and he POSTS A LOT.

So, don't read them or you can do what you suggested to Glynda, reset your computer to display in some other font. Leave Allen alone. If he wants to post in that font, that's his choice.

 

[DebBrown]

I wasn't saying that you, specifically, were upset. I was addressing the whole movement. I don't find the font ugly. And, if I am going to get upset over something, it better be more earth-shattering than someone's choice of font--maybe something like world hunger or the abuse of women and children.

Perhaps you are taking this a bit too seriously?

Deb

 

[JoAnn]

I think this one would be worse(arial black)...IMHO
I find this one (courier new) boring
I like some of the ones I have when I use MS word, or what ever I've got.
And some of the colors (if someone wants to use them) are hard to read.
So, go for it Alan! At least I don't have to 'see' who is writing...I can tell by the font.

 

[Vacation Dude]

So, don't read them or you can do what you suggested to Glynda, reset your computer to display in some other font. Leave Allen alone. If he wants to post in that font, that's his choice.

ok, this will be "my" official font for all of my future posts.

And I plan on posting a lot of comments.






Just kidding

:whoopie:

 

[KCI]

I use comic sans when making greeting cards all the time...I love it and will miss it if it ever gets shelved, which I doubt it will....

 

[Talent312]

IMHO, the really annoying posters are not those who use "ain't I cool" fonts, but rather those who have failed to master the art of paragraph breaks. Alan, at least, keeps his lines short and to the point. To me, its rude to expect a reader to follow a James Joyce style post, and I won't read more than 4 -5 lines of it.

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

IMHO, the really annoying posters are not those who use "ain't I cool" fonts, but rather those who have failed to master the art of paragraph breaks. Alan, at least, keeps his lines short and to the point. To me, its rude to expect a reader to follow a James Joyce style post, and I won't read more than 4 -5 lines of it.

Or those who believe that capital letters are only for other people, or who use nothing but capital letters.

Of course those are often the same people who don't know the difference between a period and a paragraph break. Those posts are totally unreadable.

 

[M. Henley]

Sure

Surely wish that all I had to worry about was fonts (size or style). Kentucky, like most states, is broke and we are scrambling to keep health coverage for the indigent, among many itemsd on our plate.

 

[Icarus]

Steve knows that the internet existed before we could post in different fonts, and it will continue to exist when nobody posts written text anymore either. (at least in it's current form.) Don't ask what that form is. It hasn't been invented yet, but I always liked the computer interface that they used in the movie Minority Report. I think eventually, the interface will be more William Gibson-ish as a direct computer-brain interface.

I guess when that happens that if you think in Comic Sans, that's what you will visualize. hahaha.

Don't laugh, I also invented the ipod before anybody else did.

-David