When should you use Comic Sans? [diagram]

It’s the font you use if you’re a college sorority girl counting the days until Spring Break.

My company’s template used to be in Comic Sans and I thought it was the most unprofessional font imaginable, except maybe Wing Dings.

COMICsans what so hard about that?

The flow-chart is incomplete. It needs a “will your document be used to teach young children” option.

Comic sans is one of the only typefaces in which the character “a” is drawn as children are taught to hand-write it. The “a” you see here confuses kids who are learning the alphabet and how to write. That’s why many primary-school teachers use comic sans.

The world needs a larger range of child-friendly fonts!

This is funny *and* true.
I can think of lots of similar flow charts that could be assembled – like – “When to hit Reply-All”

Comic Sans is the mullet of the computer age.

The same diagram could go for Papyrus too. Ugh… I threw up a little just thinking about it.

Claro, nada mejor para una tira comica que una helvetica… o una helvetica… o una helvetica.

ADORO COMIC SANS!

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http://www.shootComicSans.com/

Comic Sans is every designer’s worst nightmare. Collegehumor.com had a funny video a while back about it.

What’s wrong with Comic Sans? I prefer Monotype Corsiva though.

my boss would yell at other departments in comicsans when she would email them… i tried explaining to her why they didn’t take her seriously. it got her to make the body of her emails a more respectable font… but she kept her signature in comicsans.
needless to say: fail.

jejejje… simplemente lol.
aun no entiendo bien por que se odia tanto a la Comic…

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I remember thinking how to tactfully tell my mother-in-law this when she used Comic Sans for our wedding open house invitations. Not the best day.

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Ditto Dave’s comment LizB.

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Genial =)

Heru!: es horrible, por eso la odiamos tanto =D (pero horrible horrible)

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how UTTERLY ironic! i was just with a friend this morning who was making a note to go home with kids in her daughter’s kindergarten class…and what font did we use?? comic sans! however, we both decided that it is a ‘kid friendly’ font and makes parents think "school note." i don’t know…maybe it was our lack of sleep, or the fact that we’d only eaten cookies in the past 12 hours…but it seemed logical to us at the time :)

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I wish Apple would pay attention to this site. Comic Sans is the font used in the Notes application on the iPhone, and it drives me nuts.

For all you firefox users out there: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/…

Stupid. Comic Sans, as well as any other typeface, should be used where it suitable. If it is not used properly, it is because people don’t know how to do it, or because it was the only “casual” font that came with windows. Bad use is not the typedesigner’s fault. In Brazil, Times New Roman is so misused as Comic Sans.

This diagram would have been funnier if it had been written with comic sans.

Maybe I lack “class,” but I like Comic Sans.

It’s not the font itself but the inappropriate use that gets on my nerves. It has some good applications but has become a cliché. I don’t dislike Comic Sans; I dislike the way people use it. And I hate the general ‘wackiness’ it represents. Using Comic Sans does not make you a comic character; it makes you a dull attention seeker with a personality deficit.

Are there ANY typefaces that haven’t been used over and over again. I mean, please, don’t any of you kids with less than 20 years’ typesetting experience answer unless you’ve been consciously looking at the type in books for years. Comic Sans isn’t great type, but it really doesn’t show much imagination criticizing it nowadays. I mean the criticism’s as old as the overuse.

Comic Sans is an ugly version of a good cartoon font. That is the problem. It is almost like a poor version of Dom Casual, which is already an ugly version of a good cartoon font. Comic Sans is the kind of retarded-looking cheap font that only is suitable on packaging of generic, cheap toys for ages 4 and under. In small doses. Like a short headline or a little bug graphic somewhere on the back. There are much better cartoony, childish, well-designed fonts out there.

It seems everyone here is falling under one of two groups:
1) “EW COMIC SANS NO”
2) “Duh, use it in cartoons!” (they use the word ‘comics’, but they’re talking about the funnies in the newspapers.

I’m pretty sure it was intended for graphic novels. The hand-lettered speech of characters from comics like X-Men and Spiderman and such, really.

I wonder if we’d have this problem if it was called ‘Graphic Sans’ or something. Or maybe we’d then see it over-used for titles or subtitles of figures and graphics.