But when Comic Sans dared to show up in Microsoft Publisher and Internet Explorer, it attracted the ire of graphic designers.
Papyrus font hate movie#
Interestingly, it wasn’t hated when it first appeared in the pop-up balloon help guides of Microsoft 3D Movie Maker, or even when it became part of Microsoft's Windows 95 Plus! Pack of fonts. It’s just hateable.ĪBUSED AND OVERUSEDComic Sans has probably been at the brunt of designers’ scorn for as long as any typeface in history. There are nuances to each but, basically, there are four reasons why typophiles hate various typefaces: 1. I’ve done a little research into this condition, and have come up with some conclusions. It’s easy to find font haters, but a bit harder to figure out what inspires their animosity. The list continues to grow-an anti-Arial app is probably already in development! There's an “ I Hate Rotis” site, a “ Ban Comic Sans” site, a Facebook page dedicated to haters of Papyrus and a Flickr group looking to wipe Arial from our hard drives. Whole websites have been created to revile specific fonts. Myriad blog posts and YouTube videos by the score condemn hapless designs. Today, type hate has taken on pandemic proportions. Baskerville’s peers and printers of his day reviled his designs-and fifteenth-century scribes probably despised Gutenberg’s 42-line type. Fred Goudy’s designs were maligned by the typographic cognoscenti of his time.
In fact, typophiles have a long and well-documented history of hating various typefaces. You can replace “Papyrus” with any number of other typefaces-from Arial to Zapfino-and find a bevy of graphic and type designers who embrace the animosity.
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