I’ve never really grasped this whole stigma surrounding Comic Sans and the reasons of all the hate towards the font. Really, it’s become a bit of a childish stereotype in the world of design – kinda like a ‘font-cooties’.

To better explain my point, let’s cut straight to it. It’s just a font. That’s all it is, and unless you’re a complete self-admitting typophile, then the militant attitudes to using the ‘wrong’ font should not be that present in your mind. And if it is I’d like to think it’d be much more polite to do the British thing, and just ‘tut’ at it rather than marching up and saying “Why the hell are you using Comic Sans!?”.

I’m not saying Comic Sans is a good font and should be used often. It’s not and there are much better alternatives, but hey, It’s certainly not as bad as people make it out to be. At least it’s not as bad as this sadistic crime against typography:

At least Comic Sans is kinda legible, right?

It seems ironic, that the font was never even meant to be used by end-users. Comic Sans was created to be a quick way to make comic book looking speech bubbles in Microsoft Office. Unfortunately, Microsoft – in their ultimate design wisdom – decided to place the font into the main font library of Windows.

From this point it spread through the world like a disease. I think the main reason design conscious people despise it so much, is because it’s so terribly overused, and yeah, cause it isn’t exactly sexy. I suppose the main difference between Comic Sans and the above example, Jokerman, is that you see Comic Sans everywhere – even on legal documents! You only see Jokerman on a 6 year olds Word Art poster, thankfully.

So my conclusion is to just let it be. To be honest, I personally don’t mind Comic Sans being used for simple documents; the same applies to on-screen publications. It’s just when it’s used in larger sizes that I find it to be rather garish.