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Why is Comic Sans so reviled? Is it because it is one of the few fonts you are able to name?

It's like the mainstream view that ET is the worst game of all time. It is bad, yes, but not even close to the worst game of all time. Not even the worst mainstream game of all time.

Stop font is far worse than Comic Sans, and that garbage was showing up all the time in the 90s well into the 2000s.

https://fanart.tv/fanart/movies/5491/hdmovielogo/battlefield...



> Why is Comic Sans so reviled?

This site sort of explains it (click to scroll): http://comicsanscriminal.com/


> Is it because it is one of the few fonts you are able to name?

More that people can name it and identify it. Plenty of people know what Arial is, and I'd imagine designers hate it far more, but most people can't distinguish it from Helvetica.

> Stop font is far worse than Comic Sans

Yeah, if the original San Francisco[1] had been made a TrueType font and become popular, it would be equally reviled.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_(decorative_type...




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