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[Bobby Isosceles]

http://achewood.com/index.php?date=07052007

this strip is ... amazing.

Much hate to you for writing IN the blasted font.

[mrdna1]

Much hate to you for writing IN the blasted font.

when I found out that you could change the font on this board I couldn't resist. I'm more of a Sylfaen or Gill Sans guy anyway.

[Turbo Ninja]

In college, a few of my overzealous design friends would make sport of removing Comic Sans, Mistral and Matisse from every public computer on campus.  It was for the best.

Who seriously thought Matisse was a good idea?  At my old company, we sponsored an annual calendar contest and the number of submissions we received with these goddamn default basic-ass Windows fonts was disgusting and sad.  If you know enough to avoid novelty fonts, you should also know that a font isn't good just because it's included with your Windows ME Gateway from seven years ago.

[theinevitable]

I really like how much people are hating on fonts.

[colmore]

I'm surprised nobody has dug this up yet:

http://www.connare.com/comic.htm

and here's an interview:

http://www.manic.com.sg/blog/archives/000118.php

It really couldn't be better: Comic Sans was engineered for Microsoft Bob.

I'm going to rebut this guy.  Comic Sans does not suck because it is a bad font that shouldn't be in a default font pack (though it is, and it shouldn't.)  Comic Sans sucks becuase it is bad as a comic lettering font.  It's a corporate in-house design approximation of what comic lettering sort of looks like.  The way to actually make a font like Comic Sans work (as has been done many times since the explosion of webcomics) would have been to research the better lettered comics out there (personally I'm a fan of the 1920s and 30s Mickey penis strips for "funny" lettering) not just ape the general idea of comic lettering.  Times and Arial are generic default fonts too.  They are everywhere and nobody calls foul on their casual usage.  However, if you letter your webcomic with Comic Sans, you're a jackass.  It's a badly failed design, and despite what some of the comments on that interview suggest, there is very much such a thing as bad design.

[side_show]

Okay font geeks - I am always in the market for new fonts.  Anyone got any suggestions as to what I should check out?

[littlefallsmets]

I am a huge fan of the functional simplicity of Times New Roman.

Sometimes, things are default for a reason. It just works.

[dejavroom]

Georgia is the way forward, peeps.

[V-Adore]

Garamond is my favorite serif-having font, since it manages to look classy without sacrificing legibility. Times New Roman is also a sturdy favorite, and I still harbor a secret love of Courier New, cultured during my days as a callow youth on Usenet.

As for san-serifs, eh, no real preference. Chicago is nice, but I think it has such an association with iPods that we may have lost it for good.

[Drastic Action]

Book Antiqua is a good general font.  It doesn't distract you, but it is slightly different.

Verdana Bold is excellent for anything you're going to be reading a lot of.

Fixedsys is enjoyable for a bit of a retro, bitmapped font feel.

[RMJ12345]

I didn't know people had such strong opinions on fonts until this strip/thread and a scene in American Psycho (which I watched today) in which the main character becomes homicidal because of someone's better taste in font etc on a business card.

A+ to the strip by the way. I remember I used to use Comic Sans at age ten when we first got our computer because it was fun.

[otter]

People in search of better alternatives should check out http://www.bancomicsans.com.

Also: this strip made my afternoon.

[linnea]

Amazing strip. Like omba (wombat)said, further discussion will only dilute it.

My favorite is Verdana. Arial is a close second. I don't really like the serif fonts. Sans-serif all the way, baby.

[hoborg]

futura is hella tight

GEOMETRIC SANS SERIF 4 LYFE
DOWN WITH HUMANISTS

Did anyone else feel a little... disturbed by this strip? I found it really funny at first, but eventually thinking about the chill achewood characters kicking the shit out of a helpless dude American History X-style just seemed so wrong. I know it's a one-off but it's still weird to see them so out of character in a violent way.

Last time Onstad used the curb reference is one of my favorite strips, though.

[Turbo Ninja]

Get yourself a proper Helvetica.  Arial is an imitation.

General Electric released a house typeface called Inspira a few years ago, and I think it works nicely as clear, simple body.  I downloaded it once from the GE site but it looks like that link doesn't work anymore.  I'm sure a little Googling might turn up an old door someone forgot to lock.

Avant Garde is a great display font and sometimes the ligatures make me choke up a little.  Cooper Black has all the retro corniness but AG reminds me of the ugly beauty of the early 70's like whoa.

Fontifier.com can turn your handwriting into a font.  Just print out the template, fill in whatever you want, scan it, upload the scan and then preview your font.  I have three versions of my own penmanship.  It used to be free but now it's $9 if you want to download the actual file.  It takes longer than you might think to make all your horizonals and verticals match but it's quick and easy if you don't mind those things. 

Plus you can draw such as a furious ding-dong and make that your ! or @ symbol.