So you need a typeface?

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So you need a typeface?

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See, there is a time and a place for Comic Sans…

Designer: Julian Hansen

Written by Tom

31 May 2012 at 1:03 pm

Posted in Technology

Tagged with Comic Sans, Fonts, Typefaces

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From the Comic Sans Café:

Comic Sans is the groovy script font which comes with the Windows 95 Plus! pack and is now available for the Apple Macintosh. Although it might be seen as a novelty typeface, which is great for titles, it’s also extremely readable on-screen at small sizes, making it a useful text face.

Tom

31 May 2012 at 1:13 pm

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Sadly enough, some of my colleagues write code in Comic Sans. How they can stand not using a monospaced font is beyond my comprehension.

Barry Peddycord III

31 May 2012 at 6:04 pm

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- Wow. I don’t know what to say…
  
  Tom
  
  31 May 2012 at 10:11 pm
  
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The rebirth of Comic Sans: in light of the furore over the Higgs discovery at CERN this week, there is a petition to rename Comic Sans to Comic Cerns in Windows 8…

Tom

6 July 2012 at 1:48 pm

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