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rant about your most hated font!

let's hear which font makes you feel like the entire world is clawing at a chalkboard.

mine is comic sans, especially in a purple or a pink. even the school buses here in oregon use it, and it drives me nuts.

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Started Oct 20 2007 by:

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Permalink Reply by Aimee Greeblemonkey Oct 21 2007

God I hate Comic Sans, Brush Script - and yes - HELVETICA. Everyone at my office is banned from using it. ;)

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Permalink Reply by Diana Harrelson Martin Oct 23 2007

http://bancomicsans.com/home.html :)

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Permalink Reply by Lanna Oct 23 2007

You know, compared to Comic Sans, even Hobo has character and camp value. Comic Sans, tho, is wack.

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Permalink Reply by Lanna Oct 22 2007

Tekton!!! eeeeeeekkkkkkkcccckkkkxxxxx

I will use Helvetica sparingly, but only if it's a pro version where they've got the optical spacing right. Most of those throwaway versons that come with the computer (gawd forbid) are just that: throwaway. Also, I know many people are fans, but I won't use Futura. Just a gut aversion to some of the character shapes.

Lanna

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Permalink Reply by Aimee Greeblemonkey Oct 23 2007

Tekton! LOL! That one too!

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Permalink Reply by Lynn Oct 23 2007

I'm pretty fed up with most standard fonts; Times New Roman, Arial-. I LOVE ma sexy, juice itc, jayne print, Richard Murray

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Permalink Reply by Summer Oct 27 2007

typewriter! and TNR in small font on the web. I'm a comic sans snob, too. Not a fan. Lots of my small town clients want it, bad. "It's casual!"

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Permalink Reply by Violet Oct 28 2007

Papyrus and Comic Sans. I once saw MTV use Comic - i was shocked that a station that is supposedly hip and now would use that font!

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Permalink Reply by Michelle Oct 30 2007

comic sans most definitely, but also SAND. who the heck thought up that one?

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Permalink Reply by Jon Deal Nov 1 2007

This might mark me as a heretic, but I loathe Helvetica.

I'd go into exactly why, but it's one of my planned NaBloPoMo posts. I haven't really mapped out the month, I promise, but I was ruminating and ranting on Helvetica the other day in the studio and thought, "I should write this down!" So I did. :-]

Tekton and Fajita Sans are also high on the list.

Brush Script. (Although I kind of have a soft spot for House's "brush" line of faces.)

Marker Felt (Comic Sans bastard love child)

Man, I could go on for a while. Better stop there. :-]

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Permalink Reply by titan Nov 1 2007

marker felt is a bastard child of comic sans...well said!

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Permalink Reply by Ben Lawless Nov 1 2007

I heart Papyrus.

And by heart, I mean loathe.

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Permalink Reply by Regina Nov 2 2007

Comic Sans. TOTALLY loathe.

TImes New Roman. TOTALLY stale. Give me Minion Pro over TNR any day.

Tunga. The name alone... not pleasing to my ear. Superficial? Totally.

At the risk of sounding like a total geek, does anyone else out there totally have a font fetish? (And I mean that in a non-creepy way.) :)

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Permalink Reply by Jon Deal Nov 2 2007

Um.

Yeah. (note my domain name :-])

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Permalink Reply by Aimee Greeblemonkey Nov 2 2007

HA! Jon, I was totally thinking of you when I saw that comment. And you were all over it.

And I loooooove fonts too. Typography and color are my 2 big things.

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Permalink Reply by Regina Nov 2 2007

Cheers, Jon! :)

Aimee... yesssss. Color = yum. When I first discovered Kuler, it was like crack for me.

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Permalink Reply by Ben Lawless Nov 2 2007

Mmmm, Baskerville is amazing, as well as Affair and Adobe Caslon Italic.

And I pretty much ooze all over GeoSansLight, but don't tell anybody...

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Permalink Reply by Jen Y Nov 2 2007

We should just rename this group "People Who Loathe Comic Sans". SIgn me up!

It's hard to believe that I could hate something more than Comic Sans, but I do. What's up with the recent preponderance of road signs in ugly, ultra-weight sans serif fonts? (They're everywhere in the Philly suburbs.) They're not only aesthetically hideous, the lack of quick legibility makes them an actual danger to drivers.

To me, it's clear evidence of visual design being handed over technocratic middle managers. "Oh yeah, bold makes things more visible, so ultrabold-on-steroids is even better, right? Long live innovation!" Idiots.

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Permalink Reply by Regina Nov 2 2007

Ha! Classic, Jen. Oh, when the simians are in charge... :)

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