It’s disheartening to hear that America’s most frivolous war is still quietly being waged.
On restaurant menus, in office memos, on cheap vinyl decals advertising plumbing services on the side of some guy’s Chevy Aveo – the bloody battle continues, leading to lost friendships, economic uncertainty and severe middle finger strain.
It’s time to take a stand, America. It’s time to create real, lasting change. It’s time to stop using Comic Sans.
For those unfamiliar – although trust me, you’ve seen it before – Comic Sans is a whimsical typeface that was created for comic book-style speech bubbles in certain office software. For reasons that scholars are still attempting to ascertain, the font caught on in the U.S. and started showing up in all sorts of places that it shouldn’t be.
If you are attempting to prevent me from potentially killing myself by entering an electrical substation, Comic Sans is not the font to use. Similarly, if you’d like me to eat your gourmet $12 sandwich, I would like to order it from a menu that does not include the “Call Me Maybe” of fonts – it’s annoying, it’s displeasing and it’s grossly overused. If you’ve taken all this time to create a business that has personality, please don’t sully it with a trite and unfortunate typeface.
And if you are a police station using Comic Sans in important documents about things like, say, rape, you might want to look at yourself. Look at your choices.
Thankfully, there is a website to help put an end to the madness – ComicSansCriminal.com. If you come across an offender, just fill out the form on Comic Sans Criminal’s website and they’ll email said offender with information about gross typeface negligence and how to stop.
We can do this, guys. We may not be able to stop repressed middle-age men from having temper tantrums that lead to mass casualties and world wars, but we can at least stop Comic Sans from bumming us out.
One thing at a time, people. One thing at a time.
beth@thecat5.com
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