Comic Sans Destroyer [Mac]

GOSH – they should rather make an app to destroy their old-minded advertising agency's website. Comic Sans is part of our culture. The reason why self-proclaimed “professional visual designers” hate on Comic Sans and other amateur awesomeness is because their entire JOB FIELD is dying and they know it. Sorry, guys. Accept the fact that everyone knows how-to install Photoshop nowadays. This is the democratization of the graphic designer's tools! It's like the film industry hating on people who do cool shit with home video cameras. Just because something doesn't look super “slick”, it doesn't mean that it's bad or WRONG. Respect amateur design or you'll all go down with this ship.

Just because I can pick up a scalpel does not make me qualified to perform brain surgery. Anyway, Comic Sans is a professionally designed typeface, but one made for use within one specific part of one specific piece of software. It was never designed to be used “in the wild”, so to speak. Its use as the default font of choice for those wishing to convey lightheartedness or joviality is far beyond its original remit – and that's part of the issue people have with it.

Besides which, professional* typographers will tell you that technically it's not a particularly well designed typeface, and that's beyond personal choice or the democratisation of design culture.

* i.e. people who actually design for a living with paying clients.

not new guys, done already 3 years ago…

I actually use Comic Sans in my Yellow Pages advertising as yellow text on a solid black background (reverse block) and people have commented upon how stricking and simple it looks. I have no idea what you're talking about or why I can't seemingly use it anymore. My new iPad doesn't come with the option to use Comic Sans and I'm about to write to Apple to find out if it will be reinstated. Perhaps if people concentrated far more on the quality of their writing and ensured that what they wrote was fit to read in the first place with correct punctuation and suitable spelling rather than font style, everyone would be happier and reading blogs would be far less of a chore. The fact is that people have lost the ability largely to do this. I think generally people these days are too thick.