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The best way to assassinate characters is to use the Comic Sans font.

...we really just need one less.

Can they kill Comic Sans too?

http://www.bancomicsans.com/fonts.html The site that started it all offers quite a few alternatives.

Again, failure in the article summary. Direct link: http://bancomicsans.com/ We don't need news sites to tell us around something when we can just directly go to it.

http://bancomicsans.com/home.html

Is that PDF written in Comic Sans ?
Just say no ! http://bancomicsans.com/

www.bancomicsans.com

I might be able to take the site a little more seriously if they didn't use Comic Sans so liberally.

Seriously, how can you flame Comic Sans without including a link to Ban Comic Sans?

Not to mention, NOTHING should EVER AGAIN use MS Comic Sans.

I took a quick look at the site you mention. What immediately got my attention: the green button on the right that says "NMCI 101". Check it. See? SEE? The font... THE FUCKIN' FONT IS COMIC SANS! As if running Windows on battleships was not enough evidence that complete morons are managing the military...

They're obviously holding back the big guns then - they could do a lot worse... :)

OMG, my eyes. How can you advertise a page using comic sans?

Th3 p41n...

There is a website devoted to this cause: BanComicSans.com. You can order shirts, hats, mugs, or download a flyer to post in your cube at work like I did. It is hard to take emails from upper management seriously when the default font is Comic Sans with a textured background.

http://bancomicsans.com/home.html

You want criticism? Here you go:

1) Get rid of that background picture. The text is unreadable. Or at least brighten it up so it acts more like a watermark than a full picture.

2) Regarding "Past Gigs": http://bancomicsans.com/home.html
      I like this part:

      "The design of the typeface is, in itself, its voice." "Comic Sans as a voice conveys silliness, childish naivete, irreverence, and is far too casual for such a purpose. It is analogous to showing up for a black tie event in a clown costume."

That's about the two most glaring fuckups that would drive me away without looking again. Seriously dude, what were you thinking? Did you actually try to _read_ the text on your own page?

Apparently, not everyone.

I think the subject was supposed to read, "Why I hate PDF files."

And the subtitle should've been "Why I use this most annoying font ever, Comic." There's even a couple of sites tributed to this magnificent font.

There's a load of much more readable fonts. Of course, if you don't want people to read your text then go for it!

The funny part is that the image with the t-shirts shown at http://bancomicsans.com/image/bcsbycafepress512x25 6.jpg has the text "MADE IN THE USA" as a sales argument.

Well, Comic Sans was made in the USA as well :-)

It's pretty funny, although I almost stopped reading when I saw that font...

NOT A FONT. ok? Repeat after me, Comic Sans Is Not a Font! In 1995 Microsoft released the font Comic Sans originally designed for comic book style talk bubbles containing informational help text. Since that time the typeface has been used in countless contexts from restaurant signage to college exams to medical information. These widespread abuses of printed type threaten to erode the very foundations upon which centuries of typographic history are built. While we recognize the font may be appropriate in a few specific instances, our position is that the only effective means of ending this epidemic of abuse is to completely ban Comic Sans. http://bancomicsans.com/home.html

The Ban Comic Sans website.

uses MS Comic font for their articles. Sorry.

Right on, brother. Join us now!

http://www.bancomicsans.com/home.html

The site linked to uses the Comic Sans font. please mod down.