Stupidest font ever?

Bleeding Cowboys:

oh and Comic Sans MS... i fucking hate that one:

For me, it would be a tossup between Comic Sans and Papyrus.

i have a Linear B font

Stupidest? I don't know. This is probably worth posting

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t87QKdOJNv8

I said Comic Sans in my head when I read the thread title before I opened it.

I think WATMM would look pretty cute with Comic Sans MS

Why do people think Comic Sans is so stupid? It's a totally legible font, and does its job, looking playful and yet clean -- perfect for teachers.

My nomination for stupidest font is Hirosh:

It's the kind of gimmicky typeface that can only be used by three '90s dance/rock crossover bands before it turns to jazz.

Another nomination would be whatever the standard display font is for this forum. It saves some horizontal space, but it's so narrow and tightly packed, it can be a burden to read.

That's why I like Verdana better, because the letterforms are rounder even when it's tiny. Verdana 8-point bold is one of my favorites.

  On 9/30/2009 at 6:01 PM, Joyrex said:

For me, it would be a tossup between Comic Sans and Papyrus.

Same for me. Trajan is the movie font and Papyrus is the Jesus font.

comic sans, arial, bauhaus... all kinds of shit!

Avant Garde gets overused in trendy hipster stuff too much these days as well... those slanted "A"s give it away in a heartbeat.

kaen.txtFetching info...

rename this to .ttf

its my own font

lol

  On 9/30/2009 at 6:01 PM, Joyrex said:

For me, it would be a tossup between Comic Sans and Papyrus.

Oh god Papyrus, the font ever fucking design client wants or says "is there anything similar to that?"

I used to have a serious hage for Times New Roman because there was some bugs associated with it and Canon printing equipment whereby the printer driver won't print any of the punctuation, but that has passed and my hage has subsided.

I hate fonts all around though, mainly because I spend too much time paging through fonts with clients who like every font but want it to be a 'little different'.

  On 9/30/2009 at 6:35 PM, Drahken said:

  On 9/30/2009 at 6:01 PM, Joyrex said:

For me, it would be a tossup between Comic Sans and Papyrus.

 

Oh god Papyrus, the font ever fucking design client wants or says "is there anything similar to that?"

 

I used to have a serious hage for Times New Roman because there was some bugs associated with it and Canon printing equipment whereby the printer driver won't print any of the punctuation, but that has passed and my hage has subsided.

 

I hate fonts all around though, mainly because I spend too much time paging through fonts with clients who like every font but want it to be a 'little different'.

how about those jackasses that want like 15 different fonts for like a business card and shit! terrible!

that bleeding cowboys looks pretty sweet i think

wingdings

yeah... bleeding cowboys is something i used for a friends band! who still owes me money even though the band broke up!

There's this one that used to come with Windows, that I can't remember the name of -- the letter 'I' is fat in the middle and narrower on top and bottom, and it has a kind of triangular shape to all the vertical bars, almost like ... an 'island' look? Lots of restaurants end up using this dumb font. I thought it began with a 'T' but I couldn't find it ...

If someone knows what I'm on about, I'll give them a kiss.

David Carson NIN album cover typography edit: The letter 'i' in this font has a small circle on top of that fat-middled vertical stroke.

times new roman

reason for disliking bleeding cowboys:

  On 9/30/2009 at 7:06 PM, Barricade said:

reason for disliking bleeding cowboys:

 

yes... in that context it's no good... my friends band was kinda punk, country, psychobilly... so it fit their aesthetic!

bleeding fucking cowboys?

people seem to put more effort into making up names for their fonts than in actually making the font itself, an dat i dun get innit

FUCK FRANKLIN GOTHIC MEDIUM

EVERYTIME I SEE THAT FONT I WANT TO SLASH MY OWN TIRES AND PUT A BRA ON MY BORDER COLLIE

WITH ITS PRETENTIOUS FUCKING G'S

FUCK OFF

Comic Sans is nice when you use it what it's made for: comic speech bubbles. And it can be nice in other situations too. Just because millions of people don't know how to use it, doesn't make it an inherently bad font.

Lol!

  On 9/30/2009 at 6:52 PM, mrcopyandpaste said: