12 November 2011

never use this font

My students' biggest problem is simply leaving their type in the default font: Myriad. Their second biggest problem is that when they finally do discover the ability to change the font, they choose one of these awful fonts: Comic Sans, Papyrus, Party LET, or Zapfino. I don't blame them. Most inexperienced designers do. (Including those yahoos behind Avatar.)

I'm going to hang this prominently in my classroom to subliminally influence my students' typography.

3 comments:

  1. RFC21 November, 2011 08:28

    I used to love Comic Sans until the Internet told me that it was ugly. Now I can see that it's ugly. Or can I?

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  2. RC21 November, 2011 11:09

    This is something I often wonder: how much of my taste is influenced by my desire to be different? Teachers LOVE comic sans...

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  3. km02 March, 2012 21:29

    Someone in my department at work started using Century Gothic for everything. And I mean EVERYTHING. We're talking Century Gothic in the data in Excel. So gross. The thing is, I love Century Gothic in moderation. But I'm on a mission now to find everything this person has ever written or printed and change it. Ugh!

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