My company uses Book Antiqua for regular correspondence. For presentations, we use Arial for charts and BA for the storyline. Return address labels are Felix Titling small caps. E-mail is usually in either Arial or Tahoma.
Comic Sans is for schoolchildren’s party invitations.
I like Tempus Sans ITC
It’s sorta relaxed like Comic Sans MS.
What can I say I like round bubbly letters that are easy to read! I still like that font.
I had the same problem with Tekton and Isadora a couple years ago. My mom loves those typefaces, and uses them for her work notes and personal correspondence. I’d see them on stationery, on magazine covers, company logos… ugh!
People! Learn some basic typography! If you must use Comic Sans, use it for short passages of text, such as paragraph headings. (Nametags and single-lined banners also work.) Decorative typefaces should never be used for more than three consecutive sentences.
Other typeface suggestions: the Lucida font family, the Stone family, New York (point size 10, since it is a large face) and Optima. I concur with the Arial, Book Antiqua and Garamond suggestions.
Same here.
If you want a nice and fancy font to use…try the Tengwar of Feanor. 
If you want to waste space, do NOT use 14-point Courier New. It is about as obvious as a 3-inch margin. You can get away with 12-point Courier New, though.
Well, I’ve been known to use Comic Sans MS for fun stuff, but for anything remotely formal, I like ARIAL. All the way. It’s so much cleaner and easier to read than TNR, IMO.
I use comic sans in my IM’s too! It’s neon green in a black background and its in italics!
Yes I know I have way to much free time. But it looks damn cool 
Yah, well, Montfort et al:
Fuck y’all sideways.
I get tired of looking at Arial & Helvetica; everyone and their retarded dogs use those.
I like san serif. I agree that Comic appears casual and informal. Just like I am - that’s one reason I like it. I don’t use it for formal reports, duh! But I don’t see a problem with email usage. No one I know has any difficulty reading Comic - it’s a fairly clean, readable font.
Don’t worry, I don’t have to fear being taken for a kindergartener. I don’t IM, after all.
Many of the suggestions made don’t work well around here because of the wide variety of font sets loaded. Not to mention the fact that, as IS staff, I’m not allowed to use any non-standard fonts. We have to set a good example, y’know.
I looked through all of the fonts several years ago & liked Comic the best of what was available at the time. I’ve used it since. Perhaps it’s become overused since then, but I’ve not seen evidence of that. I don’t see it used very often at all. YMMV.
There may be some new fonts out now that I’d like as well, but I’ve got better things to do with my life than reset all of my fonts every few months (altho posting to this thread probably doesn’t count among them).
And I’m not likely to change just because it bothers some few bellicose fools with delusions of grandeur.
In fact, I think I’ll start encouraging more people to use it. Just to annoy dipshits like you.
By the way, where did you get that outfit? Hasn’t anyone told you yet that it makes you look like a cretin with a bad attitude? You really ought to ask your mother to buy you some new clothes.
Ah, I feel much better now. Thanks!
Okay, redtail23, ye of the AOLesque name, which of the complaints above your post did you miss? All of them? The majority of people here agree with my OP, and then you come along and tell us to fuck off? Fine. Go do the same, and doodle in your childish handwriting-like font.
On second thought, do what you’d like, just don’t e-mail me, please.
I’m sorry, you’ve completely lost me. You’re quite obviously extensively AOL-experienced; I’m afraid I can’t say the same. Could you explain just how, pray tell, my name is “AOLesque”?
Yes, sweetcheeks, I can read. I can count and do math too, which is apparently more than you can manage.
Let me see…one lame rant (tell me, did you miss all of the posts & threads complaining about the lack of originality evidenced by overuse of those tired Pit chestnuts?), a few pathetic whinges, and some number of ‘me too’ posts. I’ll even give you the various posters who merely discussed font options. So that’s 19 agin 6. Gosh, 3 to 1 against - not very good odds.
Of course, that leaves 9232 (at the moment) members of this admittedly superior message board who don’t seem to feel your pain. So 1/5 of one percent of the population are arrogant pricks who think that having a pet peeve makes them Fonts of Wisdom and Arbiters of Professionalism. And I’m supposed to be impressed?
Then too, by y’all’s testimony, there are evidently hundreds, nay, thousands of people who are using this font everywhere you go. (Not that I agree with that assessment, mind you. As I said, I simply haven’t seen this raging pandemic of which you complain. But then again, I have a life, and better things to do than examine every correspondence and webpage I read for appropriate font usage. I’m sorry you can’t say the same.) Apparently, they don’t have a problem with it, either.
As I said, these are the first complaints I’ve heard and I’ve been using said font for some time. Perhaps if you’d actually do professional-level work, you wouldn’t have to worry so much about appearances. Seems to work for me, anyway. (Graphic artists excepted, of course. Y’all know that pretty pictures are much more important than content, right?)
So, yeah, I’ll continue in my childish font and I’m sure you’ll continue in your childish temper-tantrums. Chacun a son gout, doncha know.
Anyway, honeybunch, don’t get your knickers all in a twist over some improbable fantasy predicament…oh, I guess that’s why you’re here. So sorry, I’ll rephrase: Don’t worry about receiving email from me. That’s beyond your wildest dreams.
Back atcha, bebe! 
…some of you might recall a post of mine explaining that an ex-girlfriend gave me two clothes hangers for a birthday present. This same woman had a (male) friend that lived about an hour’s drive away, who she would visit from time-to-time, often staying the night. Whenever I expressed my concerns, she would admonish me, arguing that, just because she spent the night didn’t mean anything was going on.
After we broke up, she eventually married the guy.
My point? She made her own wedding invitations and used Comic Sans as her font.
A lying bitch and sadly lacking taste.
Comic Sans on a wedding invitation? Yuck.
Courier is the font to hate
That is the dopiest font ever shoved down our throats.
I’ve hated that since I first saw it, and its everywhere.
I never use it, and always try to change it, but some idiots always insist on it. It’s the ugliest “Roman” font in the world, hands down.
You would never see a book printed in it, because it’s so ugly. So stop trying to ram it down my throat, asshole!
I use Comic Sans 10pt in all my emails at work. As long as you don’t bold it or go nuts with the color scheme, it works just fine as a business font.
Then again, I’m a web monkey in a department that values the number of cool toys on your desk more than a snappy business ensemble. So I can get away with a casual font.
I do not like Arial for one simple reason. It’s the default font on our e-mail program. Whenever I receive a misspelled e-mail with sloppy grammar, it’s always in Arial. Therefore, in my limited professional experience, Arial is only used by those too ignorant to know how to change their font settings.
You’re right that Courier is the UGLY FONT that is always given away free. It’s the one they can’t sell, it’s so bad.
Then they sell you the good fonts as a package because you can’t stand the freefies.
Meanwhile, I have no problem admitting to frequently using the Comic Sans MS font. Of course, I’m an elementary school teacher. I had originally used a font called “Crayon” that was lost in a hard drive crash; when all things were restored, I found the CSM font to be the closest to a child’s handwriting. (This font was used in making various banners, bulletin board stuff, worksheets, etc.)
Now that I have older kids (5th grade starting this year) I’m switching back to my old standby, Times New Roman.
My final word: Dude, y’all, it’s a font. Get over it.
And Courier New takes up as much as I’ve ever seen. It also looks like old-fashioned newspaper type, though.
The most blatant misuse of Comic Sans that I’ve seen was last week, when a student that recently graduated from my school killed himself. The school printed a note to the students about it in Comic Sans. How insensitive is that???
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What is it with web designers (or anyone sending documents by email, for that matter) expecting me to have a system that matches all their settings? If I design a site, I try to stick to fonts that I reckon most, if not all, viewers will have installed. I really have no patience for people who design their site to look tip-top in 18-point italic Bollocks MonoType, then expect me to download it just to coo in admiration. The same goes for co-workers who’ve downloaded some fancy font and write all of their documents in it, only for me to have to reformat the damn things so that they look halfway professional on everyone else’s PCs and printers.
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I have to disagree with the courier-bashers here. Courier, while completely unsuited for the body of any paper, is very useful for including pieces of code in (I’m a CS major, so I need to do that from time to time). The indenting and spacing always lines up, as well. Also, it is strongly associated in my mind with unformatted text, which helps keep things straight.
Personally, my favorite for on-screen use is arial narrow. But for papers, it just doesn’t use up enough room usually. It is good for when I feel particularly verbose.
For print invitations and the like, I have about 560 different fonts on my computer, so I can always find something better than comic sans MS. There’s one called ER Architect that I use for programming in whenever I can, although I would never try to make anyone else read a program of mine in it.