2009年10月8日星期四

Comic Sans - Love it ? Or hate it ?

It was the first time for me to think about the typography . I haven't think about one would misused the typography because I even don't know there's a rule . So I searched the internet for more information about it after class .

I find something interesting on one particular typeface --- Comic Sans . It is a casual script typeface designed by Vincent Connare and released in 1994 by the Microsoft Corporation and it was full of contention . Because they're the majority of people who love it crazily and some designers who hate it extremely .

I am belonging to the majority of people who love it , because I think it is lovely and appropriate for using in comic books and informal documents . It brings us more fun when we reading it , likes a kid's handwriting .

But the other designers who treat it as a bad design is because the misused of it everywhere , even in a formal signature . And there was a ban comic sans movement which was conceived by two designers in fall of 1999 .

In my usual opinion , the misused of something is the designer's fault , not the users mistake . But this time , I think the misused is because we people love it too much so that we used it everywhere . Thus , we make it a great design and a bad design simultaneously .

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