Perfectly Worthy
I think comic sans is a perfectly worthy target...
Comic Sans, like any font, has an appropriate time and place for use. This appropriateness is completely ignored with Comic Sans, which is the main problem.
You don't use Chancery Script to write a term paper, you don't use Frutiger Bold to write a wedding invitation.
And Lit - if you'd like some other teacher-friendly fonts look up Pizza Dude. He's got some wonderful fonts, many of which are free, fun, and most importantly - not Comic Sans.
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your second example, LS. I just saw this, in an ad in a current magazine -- it took a moment to identify it as a font rather than hand lettering, which I suppose is the intended effect. The words Few and Was are ugly, perhaps on account of the W and the odd size differential between some of the lower-case letters. I like yours better.
I am on the verge of photographing some of the letters that come off my ball-point pen while doing crosswords. I've already let pass a number of accidentally handsome scribbles, that might accumulate to a font some day. . .
Let's hope not, Woof Woof!
The average person's handwriting doesn't deserve to be immortalized as a font; as time goes on it gets worse and worse.
Bane of my existence, reading people's malformed scribbles.
(Is that a "4" or a "9"? A "0" or a "6"? Argh! Doesn't anyone recognize that writing is intended as a form of communication?!! Put some angles in your 4's, dammit! Close your fucking O's, you moron!)
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WHC - writing is a form of expression, not communication! (snark)
I'm overly careful with my writing - we use faxes a lot at work - and we also use UPS (and by the way UPS - if you're going to co-mingle letters and digits on your tracking numbers you might want to leave out the letters S & O. Because they look a lot like 5 and 0)
Remember kids - when mixing letters and numbers always cross your sevens, slash your zeroes, and foot your ones.
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