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I had no idea that there was even a font called comic sans. Nor has it ever remotely occurred to me to use “cutesy” fonts in a business type document.
That said, I had to go look up comic sans, and it didn’t look all that cute to me. Too thick and clunky I thought. If I did want to use a “pretty” font, I’d go with some sort of modified script or handwriting type font.
I prefer Technical because it looks exactly like the lettering my high school woodshop teacher taught us to do on our mechanical drawings. I use it when designing woodworking projects (that’s my hobby.)
I use Comic Sans on some of the flyers that we print at work. I like it if I need to convey the idea of whimsy or light-heartedness, and it’s not event-specific (like Chiller for Halloween.) While I was getting my journalism degree, I took a typography class – learned a lot from it. I still have the textbook (“Typologia”) and I was fascinated by the process of creating a type font.
Want pure airheaded silliness? I worked in a call center for several years, and once had a bubble-head working on my team who insisted on doing all of her e-mailing in an elaborate script font – like French Script or something. It was impossible to read her e-mails because she tended to CAPITALIZE ALOT! And, of course, she thought ALOT was a word. (Sorry, I got issues.)
Meh. Fonts come, get overused, and go. Fifteen years ago it was Souvenir we hated.
I mean you no offense, but this is the EXACT reason so many of us hate Comic Sans: we’ve come to associate it with people in the workplace trying to make things seem light-hearted and fun. :mad:
No, you misunderstand. I do flyers for our advertising reps to take to potential clients to help them sell promotions. If the overall mood of the promotion is light and whimsical, I use Comic Sans. If it’s hard-charging and intense, I use Arial Black and Arial bold italic. If it has to do with our news/sports component, I use Times. I use a type face that conveys the mood of the published material, the way I was taught to do in college.
Oh, OK. Gotcha. I was thinking:
You’re another case entirely. 
And I meant HR chick, not PR. I’m chauvinistic and sloppy. :smack:
Am I the only person whose first exposure to Comic Sans was via The Sims?
That alone is enough reason for the font to be driven from our screens and our printed documents, IMO.
Certainly, whenever I see it I tend to associate the user with people who spend too much time playing The Sims- ie, teenage girls and immature women in their early 20s, and people who tend to squeal excitedly a lot, have an unusual spelling of an otherwise normal name, and say “Omigod” at the start of most sentences.
It certainly doesn’t look very professional, and there are plenty of other “Light” fonts that can be used for non-Official Decree type communications without making the user appear “cutesy” and vaguely air-headed.