Just step away from the font, sir.

posted by Emma on October 22, 2007 04:57 PM

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It may sound dramatic, it may sound unimportant. But it is not. Do not use these fonts, ever, for any reason. Why? Because they offend the laws of design. I'm not going to explain any further; it's like having to explain why something's funny to someone with no sense of humour. Just... don't... do it. Please.

//update - I've had to move the picture of the first offending font below the cut because I can't bear to have it on the blog.//

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Comments: 3


Does anyone else feel physically queasy while looking at the last two fonts, especially comic sans?


I like using Comic Sans. The others I can live without!


Comic Sans does make me physically ill, especially when people use it as their default email font. Curlz makes me a little twitchy too. But I like Papyrus. I've used it for invitations.

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