I'm am interested in seeing a type face that is similar to Comic Sans because it might actually be good. It would have to better by default! People misunderstand the justifiable loathing of Comic Sans. I don't hate it because it is playful, a bit childish and unserious, I hate it because it is a very badly designed typeface - intended to mimic comic book lettering but doing a very poor job of it. As I said in another reply, if there is a typeface that was designed well in this vein, I'm all for it. For certain uses. I note that you do not use Comic Sans itself. Care to elucidate? I'm genuinely curious. Comic Sans is clumsy, inconsistent, breaks multiple basic typographical rules, is ugly and is really an insult to good comic book hand lettering.
Well, each to his own tastes and all that and you are entitled to yours but Comic Sans is really a terrible type face for any use. Look at a comic with hand lettering that is well done. Now look at Comic Sans. It was a clumsy attempt to approximate comic book lettering and was never intended for widespread use. And look where we are now. Had the designer of Comic Sans made a good job of it, I would have no objection to its use for some purposes, but the point is, it was badly done and is best forgotten. This is not just a bitchy thing on my part. It is typographically very poor indeed. There are plenty of nice legible serif fonts, Times New Roman is just not one of them.
You got to that before me. Well done sir. That summary is pitifully inaccurate and am I exaggerating in saying that accusing an innocent physicist of using Comic Sans is defamatory?
Typing 'BBC, long' in the search filed should turn up a load of one hour documentaries. There will be a load of junk mixed in, but plenty of good stuff as you browse through the pages.
There are countless BBC documentaries mostly of good quality...no need to torrent, you can just watch them on You Tube. Not perfect but waaaaay better than the brain dead US stuff.
Read only one of his. Shadow Puppets. Depressingly bad writing. Will likely never read anything else by him. Really don't know why I bothered to finish it.
Depressing? I wouldn't agree. I think Banks is such a good writer that even bleak subject matter and outcomes in his books are still a pleasure to read. Glad you mentioned him though.
I think I can still get a 'better than average' fish taco at San Loco for $1.50. Beats the hell out of Taco Bell. I suspect your standards are pretty low. Oh, and home fries are not the same things as french fries.
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I'm am interested in seeing a type face that is similar to Comic Sans because it might actually be good. It would have to better by default! People misunderstand the justifiable loathing of Comic Sans. I don't hate it because it is playful, a bit childish and unserious, I hate it because it is a very badly designed typeface - intended to mimic comic book lettering but doing a very poor job of it. As I said in another reply, if there is a typeface that was designed well in this vein, I'm all for it. For certain uses. I note that you do not use Comic Sans itself. Care to elucidate? I'm genuinely curious. Comic Sans is clumsy, inconsistent, breaks multiple basic typographical rules, is ugly and is really an insult to good comic book hand lettering.
Well, each to his own tastes and all that and you are entitled to yours but Comic Sans is really a terrible type face for any use. Look at a comic with hand lettering that is well done. Now look at Comic Sans. It was a clumsy attempt to approximate comic book lettering and was never intended for widespread use. And look where we are now. Had the designer of Comic Sans made a good job of it, I would have no objection to its use for some purposes, but the point is, it was badly done and is best forgotten. This is not just a bitchy thing on my part. It is typographically very poor indeed. There are plenty of nice legible serif fonts, Times New Roman is just not one of them.
Unlike you, I read documents. I do not blow through them. What are you hoping to achieve by doing so?
The summary is rubbish.
You got to that before me. Well done sir. That summary is pitifully inaccurate and am I exaggerating in saying that accusing an innocent physicist of using Comic Sans is defamatory?
I find Comic Sans very hard to read. Times New Roman too. Can't understand how these fonts can be allowed to exist!
Fabiola Gianotti was responsible for using Comic Sans, not Lisa Randall. Summary is wrong.
It is Fabiola Gianotti that used Comic Sans because she liked it. Not Lisa Randall. RTFA - or at least the relevant parts.
Margaret Thatcher...attractive? What form of sexual perversion / brain abnormality / sight defect is it that you suffer from?
There is nothing decent about it. Comic Sans is an abomination. It is clumsy, childish, ugly and dare I say retarded.
sorry, search 'field' - excuse typo.
Typing 'BBC, long' in the search filed should turn up a load of one hour documentaries. There will be a load of junk mixed in, but plenty of good stuff as you browse through the pages.
There are countless BBC documentaries mostly of good quality...no need to torrent, you can just watch them on You Tube. Not perfect but waaaaay better than the brain dead US stuff.
Read only one of his. Shadow Puppets. Depressingly bad writing. Will likely never read anything else by him. Really don't know why I bothered to finish it.
Depressing? I wouldn't agree. I think Banks is such a good writer that even bleak subject matter and outcomes in his books are still a pleasure to read. Glad you mentioned him though.
Tried. Unreadable.
You're such a looser!
Which is only a problem if you use windows.
I think I can still get a 'better than average' fish taco at San Loco for $1.50. Beats the hell out of Taco Bell. I suspect your standards are pretty low. Oh, and home fries are not the same things as french fries.
Isn't that what Metro looks like?
Such as when they made their final 'roll' crashing into targets? I suppose it sort of works...
You eat chicken sushi? Good luck with that!
Why a big screen TV? Why not a big monitor? Sound? Just hook the computer up to the stereo. No need for a TV at all.
There a 'Dolemite 2'?! Awesome! Thanks for the tip!
We, who where?