Comic Sans is the bane of our existence.
Imagine you're going on a job interview wearing the fanciest suit, talking in received pronunciation, being extra clean shaven and walking with a swag. Your whole charisma can and WILL be completely destroyed the moment you put your resume on the table just because it's written in Comic Sans.
If you can type using Comic Sans, chances are you can read. Which means you have the capacity to cogitate about the name Comic Sans. It can't get more self-explanatory than that: it is to be used exclusively in comics. Not in e-mails, not in official letters, not in notices, not in the papers, not in anything else but comics.
You can write me a super serious e-mail with all the words that count such as "urgent", "important", "attention", "a.s.a.p", "please DO NOT FORGET", etc. But the fact that you chose to write it in Comic Sans negates all the haste and importance of that e-mail, hence my lackadaisical attitude towards said e-mail.
Please. It's 2011, and in 24 days it's going to be 2012. At present, humanity virtually has a billion of fonts to choose from.
You no longer see Natalie Imbruglia's "Torn" when you turn on MTV for the same reason why you should stop using Comic Sans: because it's not 1998 anymore.
Imagine you're going on a job interview wearing the fanciest suit, talking in received pronunciation, being extra clean shaven and walking with a swag. Your whole charisma can and WILL be completely destroyed the moment you put your resume on the table just because it's written in Comic Sans.
If you can type using Comic Sans, chances are you can read. Which means you have the capacity to cogitate about the name Comic Sans. It can't get more self-explanatory than that: it is to be used exclusively in comics. Not in e-mails, not in official letters, not in notices, not in the papers, not in anything else but comics.
You can write me a super serious e-mail with all the words that count such as "urgent", "important", "attention", "a.s.a.p", "please DO NOT FORGET", etc. But the fact that you chose to write it in Comic Sans negates all the haste and importance of that e-mail, hence my lackadaisical attitude towards said e-mail.
Please. It's 2011, and in 24 days it's going to be 2012. At present, humanity virtually has a billion of fonts to choose from.
You no longer see Natalie Imbruglia's "Torn" when you turn on MTV for the same reason why you should stop using Comic Sans: because it's not 1998 anymore.
3 comments:
Oh, I kinda like using Comic Sans in notices...to give it a "fun" edge. But yeah, you've got to be crazy to use it in a resume...
Times New Roman. Size, 12. Period.
Calibri?
WP: Sometimes warning notices do need a fun edge to make them look more lenient. But with Comic Sans people might not take it seriously.
Pok Deng: Anything other than Comic Sans is good. Unless it's one of those illegible fonts like Wingdings. Hehe.
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