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

Mykl Roventine gives his presentation "When good people pick bad fonts" at Ignite Minneapolis #1 on April 22, 2009.

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Entertainment

Tags:

• ignitempls
• Ignite Minneapolis
• Solera
• Mykl Roventine
• typography
• bad fonts
• comic sans
• Ignite
• Minneapolis

[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.

[SevenSixTwoNato]

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

[23DGTal23]

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

[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.

[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?!

[JeremyxFisher]

@pokemyeye NO U

[pokemyeye]

get a life.

[raloso95]

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