There's a lot of hate for Comic Sans, and it's not the fault of the font itself, but the fault of those who use it, and possibly because it's in MS Windows.<p>If life was fair, people would also be laying into the Chicago font ( <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_%28typeface%29" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_%28typeface%29</a> ) that ships with Macs, and that can still be seen on designs produced by crappy agencies. However, Apple-bashing is less cool than MS-bashing!<p>It's not the font, but what it was designed for (fun, on-screen - see <a href="http://www.connare.com/whycomic.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.connare.com/whycomic.htm</a> ) and how it's been used (on signage, in print).<p>There's also the element of wanting to appear a font snob by picking the easy target of Comic Sans... As Connare himself said <i>"If you love it, you don’t know much about typography and if you hate it you really don’t know much about typography either and you should get another hobby."</i>
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