IgniteMpls #1 - Mykl Roventine presents "When good people pick bad fonts"

[23DGTal23]

5 people use comic sans on a regular basis....

[yetanothertubeuser]

Time to play this game again: Comic SAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANS!

[SLiV9]

Afraid to admit that I have used many of these fonts.

I've stopped now, though.

[aaronshafighi]

I belive people should worry more i doing something real usfull, like Alcoholisim global warming & stuff like that...Just Saying

[ThatsGlue]

Now hold on, I like Copperplate's numbers...

[SergeantLuke]

It is a fucking FONT! What does it matter?!

[pokemyeye]

get a life.

[JeremyxFisher]

@pokemyeye NO U

[raloso95]

4:00 "Everytime you use Comic Sans a puppy dies." EPIC

[Senapskaptenen]

@SevenSixTwoNato: AND uses Helvetica for everything

[IsayHai2u]

Imagine youtube with comic sans.

[klutterkicker]

COMIC SAAAAAAANNS!!

[LehmannDaHero]

There is nothing wrong with comic sans. Thubgs up if you liek it.

[SevenSixTwoNato]

Oh, delicious irony... yet another typography elitist giving a poorly-planned POWERPOINT PRESENTATION.

[123rockfan]

@SevenSixTwoNato

I think he was doing that to illustrate his point.

[CylindricalWhistle]

@SevenSixTwoNato It's not necessarily that Comic Sans is horrible--it's just that sometimes, it's inappropriate to use Comic Sans as opposed to a more serious font. I've been seeing Comic Sans everywhere for the past few years in the most inappropriate of situations. I know it sounds silly, but I have developed an aversion to the typeface due to this.

[KingQapla]

I don't get what people's problem is with Comic Sans. At least it's readable, unlike Papyrus or something.

[marine4hire]

I think this guy is wrong. I like comic sans and I am sure there are a lot more people who like it...

[tonks1988]

@marine4hire lmao there are millions who love comic sans but that doesn't mean it is not horrible.

[dbrockbassoon]

@tonks1988 Give some legitimate reason why it's horrible. Is it horrible just because you don't personally like it? It's clear, readable... what's the damn problem? There are millions of stupid fonts out there that aren't even readable. This whole font war is just stupid.

[D3M3l93]

@marine4hire omygod. you must be trolling? no, seriously. how old are you?

[mikontisott]

Who are you to tell people what they like? Design your own font and see if it gets popular, otherwise stop being so pretentious and jealous. We do not need typographers any more, get over it and retrain

[naemorris]

@mikontisott It's not an issue of liking comic sans or not - there is a time and a place for all fonts. For example, if you're making a children's book you're not going to use Times New Roman, but you could use Comic Sans. However, if you're making a 'DANGER HIGH VOLTAGE' sign, the message will be much clearer in something like Impact than Comic Sans. You dress up your font the same way you dress up your self - you wouldn't wear beach clothes to a funeral.

[maris1589]

@naemorris Wel it depends, you are right but you can use a world types. You can buy and download better fonts for each time and place.

[flickeringtorches]

This was a fantastic presentation! I loved it! Thanks for sharing the video.

[flickeringtorches]

@sirmadness: These presentations are deliberately automated to keep the presentation rolling. Like speed networking but with PowerPoint.

[sirmadness]

Please get yourself a remote for your Power Point presentations. A wireless mouse will also do the same job.

[zenubio01]

Very funny, nice presentation.

[codeman38]

Several years ago, the Georgia driver's manual was printed entirely in Comic Sans.

I am seriously not kidding.