Why choosing the right font is important.

[HunterICX]

Well according to these South-African commercials :rotfl2:

Bust you out (Edwardian Script)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=zw0D6ATuwm8

Pappy is dead (Comic Sans)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=IPC8aVo84T0

Swapped at Birth (Broadway)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpSgKeMDqbA&feature=player_embedded

HunterICX

[August]

That is hilarious!

[Jimbuna]

LOL :)

[Platapus]

But wouldn't Comic Sans mean not funny?

Sans meaning "without"

So for the joke to work, the letter needed to be read very seriously perhaps with a funny topic instead of a serious topic read funny.

[Sailor Steve]

In this case it's not about what the word means, it's about how the font looks when you read it.

[TLAM Strike]

But wouldn't Comic Sans mean not funny?

Sans meaning "without"

So for the joke to work, the letter needed to be read very seriously perhaps with a funny topic instead of a serious topic read funny.

Comic Sans means Comic Book like font without a serif (the little lines at the end of the letter stroke).

There is not anything inherently funny about it, especially since its designer based it on the fonts used in the (later) Batman and Watchman comics. People just tend to think of the font as something funny because it is misused so much.

[donna52522]

The first link was removed by user, so I have no faith in trying the other two.

[Red October1984]

I always liked Comic Sans, Chiller, and Courier New. :hmm2:

[HunterICX]

The first link was removed by user, so I have no faith in trying the other two.

Yeah seems the user have pulled them all down. :-?

HunterICX