{"id":1856,"date":"2006-09-12T09:07:19","date_gmt":"2006-09-12T17:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/the-global-curse-of-comicsans"},"modified":"2017-01-20T10:59:20","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T18:59:20","slug":"the-global-curse-of-comicsans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/the-global-curse-of-comicsans\/","title":{"rendered":"The Global Curse of Comic Sans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As readers of Needmore Notes are surely already aware, <a href=\"\/notes\/348\/font-opinions\">I despise the font Comic Sans<\/a>. In Design Observer\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/designobserver.com\/archives\/016321.html\">The Global Curse of Comic Sans<\/a>, Jessica Helfand notes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In Typophile\u2019s online forums, a designer rightly observes that the vast majority of laymen love Comic Sans. \u201cWhy do you think it\u2019s all over the place?\u201d he asks. \u201cNo \u2018decent\u2019 corporation cares what a minority of specialists thinks.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And I suppose that\u2019s a good enough point. Let them have their cartoon font. It seemingly comes with every computer ever built. I\u2019m just praying I don\u2019t go blind from seeing it one more time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comic Sans ins all of it&#8217;s glory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}