Penguin With A Mac 10 apparently my friend isn’t the one who has trouble comprehending text. The comic sans is easier for her to read because of its formatting being especially dyslexia friendly. She changes her essay to standard tnr before she submits but during the actual composition has an easier time if it’s comic sans. Don’t be a jerk just because it’s trendy to hate a font, you sheep.
"It was recently reported that on twitter the only thing complained about more frequently than Justin Bieber but less frequently than airlines is Comic Sans" GOD I MISS 2013
Ngl i want your teacher as my teacher now. I write all my school projects in comic sans but thats probably gotta change soon because im in grade 8 so next year im in highschool and i believe that if you do a project in comic sans while in highschool you loose marks. Plz correct me if im wrong
I pissed off people during presentations during my Ph.D. using it for labeling sketches... I just wanted a font that is visibly different from the main text and fits rather crude sketches...
I absolutely love the fact that you cannot tell how old Vsauce videos are, the only indication is his hair, because Michael has been making videos for so long his age is starting to show.
I live in Washington State, where marijuana is legal. I once came across one dispensary that has its logo (and most of the signs) done in Comic Sans. Don't do graphic design when you are stoned. It rarely turns out well.
I often deal with anxiety and comic sans helps me relax when writing. It's a font that just seems to say "Hey man, relax. Don't take the world too seriously."
Ha - ru I’m well aware. I was making a silly connection to Gravity Falls, the show where Bill Cipher (whose name is the op) appears. Disney XD is where Gravity Falls is aired, so I thought I could make a little joke.
Hey, Vsauce. Michael here. Text. The printed word. Vitally important, but never naked. When words and letters are printed, they have to wear the clothing of a typeface. A font family. We don't always think of it this way, but you cannot type without using a typeface. Even right now, here on TH-cam, when you leave a comment, you are communicating your own words, your own thoughts, but through the visual styling of someone else - the creator up Arial. In these Vsauce videos, Jake, Kevin, myself and others use Alsina, because it most closely resembles the handwriting of Nik Guinta, the creator of the Vsauce logo. Now, thinking of typefaces as fashion for letters is not a new idea. Adrian Frutiger famously said that the work of a type designer is just like the work of dressmaker. Or, as Alan Fletcher put it, a typeface is an alphabet in in a straitjacket. Some typefaces have serifs and some don't. Some are famously neutral, while others are silly or ugly. But one typeface is so silly and so ugly and so popular that it has arguably become the most hated font of all time. Comic Sans. People who consider themselves discerning designers scoff at its ubiquity, usually wielded by amatures who don't know better. It was recently reported that on Twitter, the only thing complained about more often than Justin Bieber, but less frequently than airlines, is Comic Sans. Online you can play a Kill Comic Sans game. And the website Ban Comic Sans provides a gigantic list of hand-written looking fonts that they would prefer you use instead. Comic Sans is so hated it's almost pulled a 360 and is cool again, ironically. David OReilly's amazing t-shirts, for example. But irony isn't the only thing Comic Sans has going for it. The British Dyslexia Association considers Comic Sans a particularly good font for children who have trouble reading letters because of its easily distinguishable characters, like the letter A. For most of our history, books and signs had to be hand written, often meticulously and expensively copied by hand. There were no printers, no typesetters. If you wanted a book, someone had to literally write by hand the whole book for you. But Gutenberg changed that by popularizing interchangeable type. He modelled his tight pieces after the handwriting of scribes at the time, producing what could be called the very first font ever textura. Later on, typesetters in Italy realized that words could be slanted and remain legible and readable, but take up less vertical space, so more could be printed on a single page. That's why it's called italics. Not because italics means slanted or oblique, but because of where it was invented - Italy. Metal type pieces had to be cast from molten metal in foundries, which get their name from the French fondue, which means something that has been melted. And so it's because of the word fondue that we now call a collection of characters within a typeface a font. When setting type, typesetters kept their type pieces in cases. The most commonly used pieces were kept in the lower case for easy access, whereas capitals were kept just a little above in the upper case. Back to Comic Sans. Comic Sans was designed in 1994 by Vincent Connare. According to the BBC, Melinda Gates herself asked Connare to design a font for the cartoon dog in Microsoft Bob to speak in. And so, within three days, Connare had designed Comic Sans, based on hand drawn fonts from comic books. It never actually made it into the final version of Microsoft Bob, but was subsequently released as a font choice on so many Microsoft products that it became what it is today. Million of amateurs now had access to this font, which seemed simple and cute and became popular on things like homemade birthday cards, but also in less appropriate situations. For instance, on an official Canadian coin, or on a gravestone. Because of things like that, Comic Sans has amassed a lot of haters. But it was never intended to be used so often or in such inappropriate situations. And so in reality, the fault may lie with us, the typers. Comic Sans doesn't disappoint people. People disappoint people. Another way to think of it is this. Discerning type aficionados may recognize Comic Sans so quickly because it is a threat. Type design is a specialized discipline, but now anybody with a computer can take a stab at it without your approval. They don't need you. To be sure, Comic Sans, objectively speaking isn't really that well designed according to the fundamentals of type design. David Kadavy has a brilliant explanation of this in his "Why You Hate Comic Sans." He points out that it's unbalanced and not very well kerned. Comic Sans is certainly not a calculated, precise font liked Trajan. But it's not organic, like real handwriting. Instead, it lies within the uncanny valley. This concept often comes up in robotics. The more human something gets, the cuter it becomes and the more we like it, until its almost human but not quite. At this point, things become creepy, almost scary. Perhaps Comic Sans exists in that same area, typographically speaking. But that said, the screens that Comic Sans was originally designed to appear on, were typically aliased, and as Kadavy points out, compared to fonts like Garamond, Comic Sans does really well here. That is how we should think about Comic Sans. A pragmatic font, a font that worked remarkably well in its era and exists today as one of the most recognizable relics of one of the most important design revolutions in history. Books used to be painstakingly copied by hand. Now later, you could design a story or an idea, but the final look really just came down to what a few typesetters could do. Today, almost anyone can dabble in typography and that is an amazing thing. Sure, it means that Comic Sans will be used. A lot. But as Corey Holms points out, Comic Sans is proof the design works. The public understands that "type means more than words." And David Kadavy argues that just as interchangeable type led to a spread of literacy, Comic Sans, and the personal publishing it comes along with, should lead us toward a spread of design literacy. Sure. Comic Sans is a bit ugly. But it's ugly in the same way that the first few chords of 'Smoke on the Water' are ugly, as played by almost every beginning guitarist, who picks up a guitar at almost every instrument store. Sure, it sounds annoying and a little bit fumbly, but it represents someone who is using tools to move toward mastery. Adrian Frutiger said that type has the power to make the whole world of thought legible, simply by rearranging the same letters over and over again. Well, Comic Sans, overused by the untrained majority may seem unsavory to some people, but as such, it most loudly represents something phenomenal. Today it is possible for the whole world of thought to be made legible and be shared by the whole world. And as always, thanks for watching.
"You can even play a game about killing comic sans!" Megalovenia intensifies Edit: i spelled the song with its greek counter part because i live in greece, i get it, i spelled the name wrong, but i am also not changing it.
i have adhd and i usually get modified tests in school with bigger text or bigger spaces. one time for a history test, the font was in comic sans. i was laughing so hard, but i actually found out later, that it actually helped me.
Papyrus- I want to scream how dare you because I like so many of the crazy fonts but I know it’s just for the fun of this so all just wish myself R/wooshes self
Comic Sans is a perfectly fine font for what it's intended for: writing comics and for material that appeals to children/families. But using it on business cards, city property and "serious" writing is like a surgeon using a bread knife. It's not the tool that's the problem, it's the user.
I agree that the users are the problem. Saying comic sans itself is bad is like saying a hammer is bad because it cant unscrew a screw. Its stupid to say that.
I personally don't have too much of an issue with Comic Sans, when it's used appropriately. Children's books, birthday cards, even an informal letter; I don't see an issue with it. Personally, I am disgusted with Times New Roman, it's an ugly font. But I have to use it for college and I find that depressing that font is so heavily policed in that circumstance. I love Book Antiqua and after that Georgia. I like Helvetica sometimes, too. And the whole hype about Arial font is lost on me. I find it to be a rather cold, emotionless font and I hate that it's the standard for Microsoft Office software.
InkBird Same. I used to use Tahoma as my default font on my old business' marketing stuff. Its easier to read than other fonts I'm aware of, so it had the subtle side-effect of encouraging casual skimmers to read further. >:D
I think the ratio is more accurately represented as 95% = Undertale references 4.99% = People actually talking about fonts 0.01% = People complaining about the fact that Michael said "typers" when he meant "typists."
The picture at 1:41 makes me kinda sad. Here's comic sans being all cute and friendly, and then this cold corporate font wanders over and spoils all the fun...
I hate that argument because of how inconsistent it is. The validity of it changes from argument to argument. Like it works here but not when it comes to guns.
The word “sans” itself comes from the Old French language, it means “without”. the reason Comic Sans got its name is, it was supposed to be used for comics and it’s *without* serifs. Not sure if he already mentioned the origin of the name itself, I just thought I’d point it out, it’s interesting to me. Also Papyrus is a material made from a stem of a water plant, it was used for making canvases, sandals, and even boats. The font itself tried to mimic the type of writing you would see on that material, which is why the font looks so messy and unappealing to most.
"Comic Sans doesn't disappoint people... people disappoint people" along with "guns don't kill people, people kill people" and "Minions don't fed up people, people fed up people" I love when we realize we're assholes
took me a while to see what you meant, but thanks for realize that, typical excuse of "English is not my first language", plus my laziness to search a word similar to "hartarse"
God I'm in love with comic sans. I full-time code in it, and never has writing code been more fun. It's just one of those little things that sparks joy everytime thing about it.
Moke McHelloThere The thing is, there are various fonts fonts for various ocassions. It takes minimal esthetic talent to discern wich font is aproppriate for birthday party and wich is better for metal concert poster. It is not the font itself, but the font being used profusely all over what is pissing people off.
My collage tutors hate it with a burning passion but will never tell us why, so in repose we write all of our essays in comic sans, and where possible change the fonts on shared drives on tutors PowerPoints they post in our class to comic sans to annoy them even more 😂
I would like to see te reaction of those kids in 2020 when they see the comments that they used to make 4 years ago. You know what types of comments I'm talking about.
Comic Sans is like shorts. You can wear them anywhere you want except for a formal meeting. Then you need a suit or a dress etc. But that doesn't mean shorts are useless, ugly things.
+Erkut Soyer But unlike shorts, there are no reasons to use Comic Sans. Shorts can make your life nicer, but it isn't gonna make it easier to write in comic sans for example
I have a friend who writes out her essays in comic sans before formatting them for submission because it’s so much easier for her dyslexia
tell her to stop it and use literally any other font
@@penguinwithamac1044
did you read the whole sentence?
Penguin With A Mac 10 apparently my friend isn’t the one who has trouble comprehending text. The comic sans is easier for her to read because of its formatting being especially dyslexia friendly. She changes her essay to standard tnr before she submits but during the actual composition has an easier time if it’s comic sans. Don’t be a jerk just because it’s trendy to hate a font, you sheep.
I also have dyslexia, and comic sans has a special space in my heart. It's ugly, but I love it.
@@penguinwithamac1044 Did you read the fucking comment?
imagine if on april 1st youtube changed everything to comic sans
LETS DO IT 🤣🤣🤣
imagine youtube saw ur comment
Imagined if i didnt care, spoiler i wouldnt die of laughter
I would love that to happen, and all I'd think of is a certain skeleton wearing a blue hoodie.
@@cardboardleaf7971 s a n s
"It was recently reported that on twitter the only thing complained about more frequently than Justin Bieber but less frequently than airlines is Comic Sans" GOD I MISS 2013
Before twitter was offended by everything
It was a peaceful time
@@avigailpekelman8239 if it means that you cant openly hate minorities im pretty glad twitters offended by everything now
It would be really nice to go back to that age of twitter.
@@slimetrash8942 well it depends on what you count as "openly hating minorities"
man dont you love when a vsauce video gets recommended to you 10 years later
Eyyyy same
Yup
We love it
Even better, _11_ years later
@fedethegreat88even betterer, 11 years and _3 months_ :)
"You can even play a kill comic sans game"
Well yeah about that...
Oooooh boooooy
This aged very well
*megalovania playing in the distance*
Wait what happened?
@@riyak.7393This: th-cam.com/video/Vr4IYjeplJA/w-d-xo.html
“You can even play a Kill Comic Sans game” yeah but it’s really hard
really wish i didnt call the papyrus font 'ugly' ;-;
And u have a bad time
@@powerpug964 Lol!
*megalovania intensifies*
Kinda subtle good one
"Comic Sans doesn't disappoint people. People disappoint people."
VSause, 2013
filophotsits
I'm actually making a shirt with this on it as I type this
*Vsauce
Vsussy
Vaush, literally vowsh
The history of font related terms at 3:00 is mind-blowing
comic sans is used in baldi
@@thwok59 nobody gives a fuck
It's like that moment when the díck fits right into the hole.
@@asheep7797 bruh WHATt!?
@@thwok59 sans too
one of my morphology teachers makes his tests with Comic Sans, and I'm only able to forgive him for using that font, no one else.
Ngl i want your teacher as my teacher now. I write all my school projects in comic sans but thats probably gotta change soon because im in grade 8 so next year im in highschool and i believe that if you do a project in comic sans while in highschool you loose marks. Plz correct me if im wrong
Javier that’s a good thing
@@aaronbalchand5475 your correct most papers must be done in times new Roman at least at my school,(I used to use comic sans too)
You’re
All of my teachers at my school use comic sans
Comic sans is the legend of school powerpoint presentations
That is the truest thing I've seen in my entire life hahaha 😂
I pissed off people during presentations during my Ph.D. using it for labeling sketches...
I just wanted a font that is visibly different from the main text and fits rather crude sketches...
@@edi9892 hahaha, great story! 😊
Arial and Gothic Black is King in word.
1,000th like here. Lmao that was so satisfying
Once i got a letter saying my grandpa died in comic sans
Oof
That’s just sad
so comic sans obsorbed your grampa and he died???
Oof
Lol wot m8
the fact that he used papyrus as the example for “ugly” in a video about comic sans way before undertale even existed is amazing
Ikr? It surprised me so much I checked the date of the video 😂
The reason Sans and Papyrus got their names is because these fonts were so infamous.
Both comic sans and papyrus were famous for being ugly as fuck and that's why toby fox chose them
Papyrus is more handsome than sans, in reverse of the fonts
Guess he's not a pasta lover
*_”WE ARE IN A COMIC, SA- “_*
_humor noises_
*”VERY FUNNY, SANS.”*
Neptune039 YT wow bro thats so funny bro thats so funny bro thats so funny
Neptune039 YT i dont like how this is funny
y e s
y e s
y e s
Half of this comments is agreeing and the other half is undertale jokes
Ahh yes... undertale... nostalgic
I havent seen a single comic sans the funni skeleton joke
Nvm I scrolled down more and there are 3000 undertale jokes
Did you know this video is under the #asshole
REIKI TIME perfectly balanced as all things should be
Wait so sans is funny because of comic sans?
Imagine having comic sans on your gravestone. Damn
Now I want Wingdings on my gravestone.
@@dustpanman2998 That's just ancient Egypt with extra steps
@@johnjohnson1351 nah my guy its a undertale reference
if that shit happens to me, pls someone smash my gravestone with a sledgehammer
@@gamingthree8862 just because its wing ding doesn't mean its Undertale
"You can even play a kill comic sans game!"
*Megalovania blasting on the background*
That aged like fine wine
ew no, that game sucks. get out lol
@@OrthoKarter L + ratio
@@millennium7909 LOL
@@OrthoKarter L + no dad
@@OrthoKarter L
"Comic Sans is used mostly by the untrained majority"
*4th graders on Google slides*
Got em
@@aurich172 and the overused transitions
How did you figure that out
@@hantenguuppermoon4730 a dark past I would rather not talk about
@@mushroom8446 No
It's funny how "Comic Sans" is the near-French for "Not Funny"
*-coughs in french-*
@@ellennaronice9163 atchoum
yeah
caugh in french= atchoum
also, I speak french as my min language and I really dont think about it as ''Not funny''
@@Toni300 I- Atchoum is for sneezing dude o-o
I think because it's based on comic books (text sans the comic)
That's why it's popular, the French don't know funny.
“People disappoint people”
That phrase was way ahead of it’s time
That has been a universal constant for all of human history
Yeah man people started dissapoimting people only 2 years ago
5:34
yeah it's not like that has been happening since the dawn of time, literally
@Vishnu PM Chill, it was a joke lol
I absolutely love the fact that you cannot tell how old Vsauce videos are, the only indication is his hair, because Michael has been making videos for so long his age is starting to show.
"X doesn't disappoint people, people disappoint people" is a very nice quote that can be used for any X.
but my X _does_ dissapoi-
oh, wait you mean-
right
Guns don't kill people, people kill people, and stupid people kill themselves.
People don't disappoint people,
People disappoint people.
You said any X.
"Disappointments don't disappoint people, people disappoint people".
It doesn't work :p
X doesn't disappoint. X gonna give it to ya
2 years after this video was posted
A small indie game got released and now an entire new generation is in love with this god damn font
Lemme guess, Baldis Basics?
@@TheDankBoi69 i was thinking that too but baldis basics was more like 2018, not 2015
@@rowl333 ok so it was Undertale
@@TheDankBoi69 ohh yep makes sense now😂
Undertale
My aunt's eviction notice was written in comic sans
Comic Sans its not so scary anymore now
Hello Comic Sans, you're the best font!
I live in Washington State, where marijuana is legal. I once came across one dispensary that has its logo (and most of the signs) done in Comic Sans. Don't do graphic design when you are stoned. It rarely turns out well.
And My mum's electricity bill too.
I’d like to think Toby fox watched this then decided to make 2 characters out of the most ugly fonts just to despite a sauce
Damn, what did Toby have against condiments?
@@NaveeSealyes.
@@NaveeSealsans loves ketchup...
What the fuck happened towards the end, did you have a stroke at the end?
“There’s 3 acutally”
I often deal with anxiety and comic sans helps me relax when writing. It's a font that just seems to say "Hey man, relax. Don't take the world too seriously."
Yes
Emotional support font
Good on you for finding something that helps.
yes exactly, and it gives me nostalgia because it was used so much in elementary school
Does it say puns too?
In 6th grade i wrote an entire essay in comic sans and it was truly a masterpiece
that's a beautiful story
I knew that something is wrong with this comment, I can't tells.
They tell me not to change my font in 7th grade, but its always comic sans.
JohnTheGrey we have to put it in times new Roman for our IB certificate
Sir You Are A Good Person
Good old 2013 when Twitter cancelled the comic sans font instead of actual people
Lol
Both are bad
Wow that soo unimportant really why hate a front????????
This guy appreciated the artistic genius of Comic Sans before Undertale was even a thing. Respect man, only respect.
My man Michael here is making 9:52 long videos and not stretching to 10 min. Can we get a petition for this man to be president?
michael for president of the world
Yeah, this was 6 years ago
Banshii r/wooosh
@@user-vu4hw6cz3r r/Ihavereddit
Clutch r/wooooshwith4os
Toby Fox: *watches video*
"I can make this work."
Bill Cipher 3 letters back
XD
XD? Or Disney XD, the channel Gravity Falls is aired on?
Derpal Shmerpal “xD” is usually used by some people as a way to show laughter
Ha - ru I’m well aware. I was making a silly connection to Gravity Falls, the show where Bill Cipher (whose name is the op) appears. Disney XD is where Gravity Falls is aired, so I thought I could make a little joke.
can we appreciate how michael doesn’t seem to age at all
**Vsauce music intensifies**
Or does he-
Or does he?
Hi
@@mubashiradinda1187 Vsauce; Michael here
ive never understood the hate for comic sans, its such a whimsical font and its so easy to read when writing with it
Some say Michael was held at gunpoint behind the camera by Microsoft Bob himself.
Comic Sans be like -
"You hate me, I don't care. I am already a part of your computer."
i don't have comic sans installed, so your statement is false
@@maybeanonymous6846 You dont install comic sans, its already on your computer when you first get it
(Sans voice) i am already in your computer.
@@jtteope1178 you don't install comic sans, comic sans installs you
@@jtteope1178 Not if you're a Mac or Linux user.
I thought he was going to say"People disappoint comic sans."
He should've
Comic sans: aww come on guys it's my birthday
Us: shut up
same
I read this shit 750 ms before it happened and I was granted additional 7 years of life.
Don't you hecking dare call my beautiful spaghetti boy ugly
We will get our revenge.
We shall take our revenge soon WE SHALL NOT LET THIS MAN INSULT PAPYRUS UNDERTALE
The great papyrus better capture this human
The font is clean, easy on the eyes, and has personality. I see no reason it’s not as respected as it’s peers.
That should read: "I see no reason it's (IT IS)not as respected as its (possessive) peers.
𝘐 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘧𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘤
I agree Comic Sans is the best font, as you say it has personality.
I agree
Agreed
Comic Sans doesn't disappoint people , people disappoint Comic Sans
but only in soviet russia
Norbert Gardonyi I- ahem WE were just thinking this.
@@thingsnstuff7526 well said, comrade
Hey, Vsauce. Michael here.
Text.
The printed word. Vitally important, but never naked.
When words and letters are printed, they have to wear the clothing of a typeface. A font family. We don't always think of it this way, but you cannot type without using a typeface.
Even right now, here on TH-cam, when you leave a comment, you are communicating your own words, your own thoughts, but through the visual styling of someone else - the creator up Arial.
In these Vsauce videos, Jake, Kevin, myself and others use Alsina, because it most closely resembles the handwriting of Nik Guinta, the creator of the Vsauce logo.
Now, thinking of typefaces as fashion for letters is not a new idea.
Adrian Frutiger famously said that the work of a type designer is just like the work of dressmaker. Or, as Alan Fletcher put it, a typeface is an alphabet in in a straitjacket. Some typefaces have serifs and some don't. Some are famously neutral, while others are silly or ugly.
But one typeface is so silly and so ugly and so popular that it has arguably become the most hated font of all time.
Comic Sans.
People who consider themselves discerning designers scoff at its ubiquity, usually wielded by amatures who don't know better. It was recently reported that on Twitter, the only thing complained about more often than Justin Bieber, but less frequently than airlines, is Comic Sans.
Online you can play a Kill Comic Sans game. And the website Ban Comic Sans provides a gigantic list of hand-written looking fonts that they would prefer you use instead.
Comic Sans is so hated it's almost pulled a 360 and is cool again, ironically. David OReilly's amazing t-shirts, for example.
But irony isn't the only thing Comic Sans has going for it. The British Dyslexia Association considers Comic Sans a particularly good font for children who have trouble reading letters because of its easily distinguishable characters, like the letter A.
For most of our history, books and signs had to be hand written, often meticulously and expensively copied by hand. There were no printers, no typesetters.
If you wanted a book, someone had to literally write by hand the whole book for you. But Gutenberg changed that by popularizing interchangeable type. He modelled his tight pieces after the handwriting of scribes at the time, producing what could be called the very first font ever textura.
Later on, typesetters in Italy realized that words could be slanted and remain legible and readable, but take up less vertical space, so more could be printed on a single page. That's why it's called italics. Not because italics means slanted or oblique, but because of where it was invented - Italy.
Metal type pieces had to be cast from molten metal in foundries, which get their name from the French fondue, which means something that has been melted. And so it's because of the word fondue that we now call a collection of characters within a typeface a font.
When setting type, typesetters kept their type pieces in cases. The most commonly used pieces were kept in the lower case for easy access, whereas capitals were kept just a little above in the upper case.
Back to Comic Sans. Comic Sans was designed in 1994 by Vincent Connare. According to the BBC, Melinda Gates herself asked Connare to design a font for the cartoon dog in Microsoft Bob to speak in. And so, within three days, Connare had designed Comic Sans, based on hand drawn fonts from comic books. It never actually made it into the final version of Microsoft Bob, but was subsequently released as a font choice on so many Microsoft products that it became what it is today.
Million of amateurs now had access to this font, which seemed simple and cute and became popular on things like homemade birthday cards, but also in less appropriate situations. For instance, on an official Canadian coin, or on a gravestone. Because of things like that, Comic Sans has amassed a lot of haters. But it was never intended to be used so often or in such inappropriate situations.
And so in reality, the fault may lie with us, the typers.
Comic Sans doesn't disappoint people.
People disappoint people.
Another way to think of it is this. Discerning type aficionados may recognize Comic Sans so quickly because it is a threat. Type design is a specialized discipline, but now anybody with a computer can take a stab at it without your approval. They don't need you. To be sure, Comic Sans, objectively speaking isn't really that well designed according to the fundamentals of type design.
David Kadavy has a brilliant explanation of this in his "Why You Hate Comic Sans." He points out that it's unbalanced and not very well kerned.
Comic Sans is certainly not a calculated, precise font liked Trajan. But it's not organic, like real handwriting. Instead, it lies within the uncanny valley. This concept often comes up in robotics.
The more human something gets, the cuter it becomes and the more we like it, until its almost human but not quite. At this point, things become creepy, almost scary. Perhaps Comic Sans exists in that same area, typographically speaking.
But that said, the screens that Comic Sans was originally designed to appear on, were typically aliased, and as Kadavy points out, compared to fonts like Garamond, Comic Sans does really well here.
That is how we should think about Comic Sans. A pragmatic font, a font that worked remarkably well in its era and exists today as one of the most recognizable relics of one of the most important design revolutions in history. Books used to be painstakingly copied by hand. Now later, you could design a story or an idea, but the final look really just came down to what a few typesetters could do.
Today, almost anyone can dabble in typography and that is an amazing thing. Sure, it means that Comic Sans will be used. A lot. But as Corey Holms points out, Comic Sans is proof the design works. The public understands that "type means more than words." And David Kadavy argues that just as interchangeable type led to a spread of literacy, Comic Sans, and the personal publishing it comes along with, should lead us toward a spread of design literacy.
Sure. Comic Sans is a bit ugly. But it's ugly in the same way that the first few chords of 'Smoke on the Water' are ugly, as played by almost every beginning guitarist, who picks up a guitar at almost every instrument store. Sure, it sounds annoying and a little bit fumbly, but it represents someone who is using tools to move toward mastery.
Adrian Frutiger said that type has the power to make the whole world of thought legible, simply by rearranging the same letters over and over again.
Well, Comic Sans, overused by the untrained majority may seem unsavory to some people, but as such, it most loudly represents something phenomenal.
Today it is possible for the whole world of thought to be made legible and be shared by the whole world.
And as always, thanks for watching.
Wow, bravo sir. Bravo.
@Zmyszan! Yes.
I’m already Sans Undertale I copy pasted this and changed the font to comic sans
Mygodyoudonthavelive
XDD
I don't know why TH-cam is recommending this video 10 years later but is a great time capsule
Vsauce: and some, are ugly. **shows papyrus**
*its a beautiful day outside*
Birds and singing
Flowers are blooming
On days like these
Kids Like You
SHOULD BE BURNING IN HELL
"You can even play a game about killing comic sans!"
Megalovenia intensifies
Edit: i spelled the song with its greek counter part because i live in greece, i get it, i spelled the name wrong, but i am also not changing it.
"Megalovenia"
@@cyruss6536 “”megalovenia””
@@ChillTomato "megalovenia"
@@worm1010 "megalovenia"
@@venomvc "megalovenia"
Everybody on yt: uses Roboto
Samsung users with the freedom of font: CoMiC sAnS
I was so confused for a sec like "wait, this is arial??" Then I realized I changed the font on my phone. I'm an idiot.
actually we dont get all fonts. we only get 5-6 some of which i think are kind of ugly. :(
liz i had a samsung phone for a bit and i know you have to buy them
TH-cam is actually set in Roboto now. Not sure where that font came from but it’s been here for a while.
Nature Freak MB thabks i changed it
i have adhd and i usually get modified tests in school with bigger text or bigger spaces. one time for a history test, the font was in comic sans. i was laughing so hard, but i actually found out later, that it actually helped me.
I want my gravestone to be in comic sans
'An Excellent Choice'
CAN YOU SIGN MY SPATULA
I only said it because Chef Excellence is here.
+Frisky As do I.
I would really like Chef Excellence to sign my spatula. It would be a dream come true.
undertale changed all my thoughts about comic sans and papyrus fonts so much
One reson I love Papryus is because I loved using that font.
+Autumn Pines I always loved Comic Sans and never knew of Papyrus until undertale Lol
My science teacher writes our assignments in Comic Sans.
+Shimmer - Fangirl - Star same ^-----^
+Shimmer - Fangirl - Star Same, but its in my history teacher.
"Some are Ugly"
* Shows Papyrus *
*Bonetrousle starts playing slow and sad*
Katzly lol
Rip
Don't be upsetti, have some spaghetti, to forgetti your regretti.
*NYEH HEH HEH! I SHALL COMMIT A HATE CRIME! NYEH HEH HEH*
Papyrus-
I want to scream how dare you because I like so many of the crazy fonts but I know it’s just for the fun of this so all just wish myself
R/wooshes self
little did he know a funny skeleton would come around turn this all upside-down.
Comic Sans is a perfectly fine font for what it's intended for: writing comics and for material that appeals to children/families. But using it on business cards, city property and "serious" writing is like a surgeon using a bread knife. It's not the tool that's the problem, it's the user.
Your Overthinking fonts
BlessingBear9 the master you’re watching VSauce. You can’t even make that argument here.
I personally don’t think it works well with comics
sans too
I agree that the users are the problem. Saying comic sans itself is bad is like saying a hammer is bad because it cant unscrew a screw. Its stupid to say that.
Before Undertale's release: Everybody hates Comic Sans
After Undertale's release: Everybody is afraid of Comic Sans
No pacit no
I’ve seen you in DDM
@@therealsans8635 DDM?
@@thema1998 dank doodle memes
Ya
He
Defended
Comic sans
When no one else would.
The hero we need..But not he one we deserve
Our hero!
He's a regular Atticus Finch
periodttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt
D A M N.
Thank you VSauce,no idea why everyone hates my comicical side
Nowadays, Comic Sans befriends protagonist's mothers.
This [ugly bastard] Skeleton is a [BIG SHOT] among hot single moms with a few single [Drugs], click here for your own [Hyperlink Blocked]
Adoptive mothers too.
LOL
Sanus
:(
"Some are just ugly"
*Shows Papyrus*
C o i n c i d e n c e ?
Papyrus is the only one I care about
I think Not!!
p e r h a p s
Papyrus is the font/style
*faint nyeh heh heh in distance*
I personally don't have too much of an issue with Comic Sans, when it's used appropriately. Children's books, birthday cards, even an informal letter; I don't see an issue with it. Personally, I am disgusted with Times New Roman, it's an ugly font. But I have to use it for college and I find that depressing that font is so heavily policed in that circumstance. I love Book Antiqua and after that Georgia. I like Helvetica sometimes, too. And the whole hype about Arial font is lost on me. I find it to be a rather cold, emotionless font and I hate that it's the standard for Microsoft Office software.
it is calibri now
tahoma is my favorite :D
InkBird Same. I used to use Tahoma as my default font on my old business' marketing stuff. Its easier to read than other fonts I'm aware of, so it had the subtle side-effect of encouraging casual skimmers to read further. >:D
I am complete opposite, I hate whacky "fun" fonts and love fonts that look "serious" and are more "cold", neutral.
AnAmericanComposer
School - killing creativity since 1700s
This video is so old but feels so new and fresh, loved it!!!
Hey vsauce, michael here, TEXT
What? you expected it to be Hey vsauce micheal here,SUCC or something? :P
@@parsipolo2877 where are your fingers?
Sample Text
*saucy music play*
95% of the comments: Undertale references
5% of the comments: people actually talking about fonts
Ciel1820 not true
I haven’t seen a single undertale comment, it’s all just papyrus unjust
@Caleb Houston It's VSauce Mikál
I think the ratio is more accurately represented as 95% = Undertale references 4.99% = People actually talking about fonts 0.01% = People complaining about the fact that Michael said "typers" when he meant "typists."
I prefer to type in Ariel 11
"Comic Sans and Papyrus are ugl-"
An army of undertale fangirls begin to raid Vsauce Michael's house.
Lol why doesn’t this comment have more likes
I want to like but I want to leave your comment at 69 likes
Otterly Strange exactly........ I agree so much
I was mad when i heard all this
Otterly Strange *You got me-* (Joking, I’m a Mettaton fangirl. ;))
I like Comic Sans
It looks handwritten ish but is also perfectly legible and easy to read and in some circumstances look professional
_I actually like comic sans, am I the only one?_
*yet 100x other people said the exact same thing, you're not the only one*
Comic sans has been my favourite font since grade 7
It's awesome
+xXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxMLG420 and yours is an illuminati what are you twelve
+xXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxMLG420 it's actually just an overused meme for douches who aren't smart or original
you are the only one comic sans is ugly af
To everyone who hated on Comic Sans:
Joke's on you. Sans is in Smash now.
@Kingdom Of Hearts Were you on the internet for the last 3 months of 2019?
@Kingdom Of Hearts Yeah look up Sans Smash reactions
@Kingdom Of Hearts ofc not
@Kingdom Of Hearts lol yw. Enjoy.
(Sans is DLC tho)
@Kingdom Of Hearts You probably also missed Tobey Fox's input on the Pokemon Sword & Shield soundtrack
There is a boy at my school who wrote an entire book in comic sans about comic sans. He has tried to sell the book and people have actually bought it.
EnderGirl 2318 that's *L I T* fam
EnderGirl 2318 Where can I get it?
Hell I'll buy it.
EnderGirl 2318 i need to acquire this book
now that's a lie.
The picture at 1:41 makes me kinda sad.
Here's comic sans being all cute and friendly, and then this cold corporate font wanders over and spoils all the fun...
i dont speak *I T A L I C S*
*you are so bold*
-You ar- yeah scratch that
I don't speak Maccaroney
hellothing Uh oh!
_spage_*t was* *_t o u c h e d_*
Why hate comic sans, it looks so nice. It is one of my favourite ones. You can tell the creators put some *backbone* into it
Same
There is a joke right?
@@marvinarellano2258 yes it’s an undertale pun
@@johnblon1536 I said that to see if anyone that watched it knew about undertale
@@marvinarellano2258 oh lol
“People disappoint people”
True, and deep...
Nothing dude, don’t feel that way
Dollar You’re at 69 likes I’m not gonna ruin that streak so I’m just gonna say it in the comments
Like
Shelby Creed Thanks lol
I hate that argument because of how inconsistent it is. The validity of it changes from argument to argument. Like it works here but not when it comes to guns.
@@thedollarsauce the other more important truth that was being laid out was that we are our own worst enemy.
comic sans has unironically always been my favorite font
The word “sans” itself comes from the Old French language, it means “without”.
the reason Comic Sans got its name is, it was supposed to be used for comics and it’s *without* serifs. Not sure if he already mentioned the origin of the name itself, I just thought I’d point it out, it’s interesting to me.
Also Papyrus is a material made from a stem of a water plant, it was used for making canvases, sandals, and even boats. The font itself tried to mimic the type of writing you would see on that material, which is why the font looks so messy and unappealing to most.
Undertale lore
@@ChalkMuncher deltarune lore when
@@ChalkMuncher Right, exactly. This is all Undertale lore.
I'm pretty sure "sans" still gets used in the french language today, for the rest this comment was very interesting
@@Brickselot Yeah, I can confirm ''sans'' is still used nowadays. Like, a lot.
Never realized that font history could be this interesting.
Comic sans is used in 2 ways.
Elementary schools
And
Memes
And sans
Unironically, my elementary school age was full of Times New Roman, but now I like Comic Sans.. and also Sans.
BUDDY there's one more
LAZARBEAM
And gravestones
@@void1795 I see you're a bloody legend as well
My God. It's been over a decade since I first watched this video. It makes me feel old.
"Comic Sans doesn't disappoint people... people disappoint people"
along with "guns don't kill people, people kill people" and "Minions don't fed up people, people fed up people"
I love when we realize we're assholes
"fed up" is intransitive
took me a while to see what you meant, but thanks for realize that, typical excuse of "English is not my first language", plus my laziness to search a word similar to "hartarse"
"comic sans doesn't disappoint people, people disappoint comic sans"
No, minions are the worst.
+Molotera Legarreta I get it, happens to me in dutch all the time
2013: Everyone Hates Comic Sans
2015: Everyone Loves -Comic- Sans
LatvianAnimator
2020: Everyone still hates Nickelback🤣
LatvianAnimator heya.
I wonder what changed
We like minecraft again
2020: sans is overused and shit, and the whole undertale fandom has been absolute shit since its existencd
"People disappoint people" is so quotable
God I'm in love with comic sans. I full-time code in it, and never has writing code been more fun. It's just one of those little things that sparks joy everytime thing about it.
there's a serious website selling hightech materials up to a thousand times as valuable as gold
featuring a periodic table using comic sans
Yeah, please tell me the link!
@@trgtheredstoneguy3990 nanografi.com/periodic-table/
Nooooo
@@JulianDanzerHAL9001, is that a green HAL on your profile pic?
@@gabor6259 yep :P
When I hear "hey Vsauce Michael here" I automatically think I've clicked a meme video.
Alkesta shame
Alkesta Why?
Do I even want to know?
same
+TheWolfGamer Because it's become a very popular meme. It is not as popular of a meme, however, as Comic Sans.
Alkesta I've watched so many Vsauce videos I think my brain has learned to completely block it out.
Everyone: Hates comic sans
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Didn’t get the memo
*Didn't get the memo boi*
Undertale: oh we got the memo we just didn’t care
Imagine writing in perfect times new roman
Bro I'm pretty sure that's just Jeff's writing made into a typeface
Diary of a Wimpy Kid doesn’t use comic sans; the letters are more stick-like than comic sans
1:20 didn’t have to do the font with the same name as my skeletal boi like that 😢
IS THAT PAPYRUS UNDERTALE!!1!!1!
What did pap do 😭
"How dare you, call the GRRRRRRRRREAT PAPYRUS ugly?!"
"yeah and...... Sans"
Undertale reference
Lol, papyrus don't even say GRRRRRRRRREAT papyrus like that, it's just a thing that jacksepticeye said when he played it
@@DND20 אחלה יפתח
@@talgoldstein2692 no1 care
I didnt know comic sans was so hated
me neither
well, the designers put comic sans in my online game once... then I noticed it pretty quickly.
There are certain things wich are virtually unnoticeabe...
Until you finally notice them.
Dicks just blew this so-called issue out of proportion, as if there are rules as to how you should design font. Who cares?
Moke McHelloThere
The thing is, there are various fonts fonts for various ocassions. It takes minimal esthetic talent to discern wich font is aproppriate for birthday party and wich is better for metal concert poster. It is not the font itself, but the font being used profusely all over what is pissing people off.
At my primary school, everything was written in comic sans, even the school logo
no :0 pls no
@@iheartquestionmark1313 It is the most clear font to read for people with dyslexia. So that's one reason. But still, even the school logo
@@robinankie that's true, but the school logo being comic sans too makes it a little much y'know
@@iheartquestionmark1313 yes, yes it does
me too! simpler times
My school didn’t let us use any other font except comic sans
time for a sacrifice
wow.
What a swap
Hell
It was standard for all our papers, etc to have 12pt Times New Roman required.
1:49 "on twitter, the only thing complained about more than Justin Beiber..." Ah, 2013. Those were simpler times.
You're 25 and already sound like my grandma...
For april fools day youtube should change their font(typeface?) to comic sans
YES YES YES YES YES
But that would make it so 2004
Search "doge meme" on TH-cam's search bar.
I am enlightened now
YoshiOG1 Thank you for finding my true calling
It's so hard to tell how old these videos are because they're very similar in quality to the newer ones. It's very impressive!!
VSauce: This will be a good video!
Undertale, a few years later: *I'm about to ruin this man's whole career*
Comic sans is the most gated font but was made in to one of the most loved video game characters ever
Knowing that sans is loved fills you with determination
@@morgiigaming9934 well... I was going to give you a bad time but seeing that..... nevermind
skeletom
*sans*
And became the hardest boss in a video game
I want my gravestone to be in comic sans because everyone has such an irrational hate for it
Oh,and grave"i had a bad time"
Or grave "I got dunked on"
My collage tutors hate it with a burning passion but will never tell us why, so in repose we write all of our essays in comic sans, and where possible change the fonts on shared drives on tutors PowerPoints they post in our class to comic sans to annoy them even more 😂
i want mine to have it too because snas
the liberal urge to annoy rational logic
This font has always been my favourite, I have used it for many of my school presentations.
I wish there were more videos like this
*NOT ON YT RED*
3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445923078164062862
he now uploads these type of videos on DONG
UPDATE 2014: TH-cam switched from Arial Nova to Roboto since that is Google's elementary font.
In 2020
@@MasterofBeats in November
@@TheLampeKing in december
@@pranjalc7735 in december 2nd
@@TheLampeKing on December 3rd
"A Defense of Comic Sans"
He's the hardest boss in Undertale.
chris rasnake
Finally someone said that
I was hoping undetale didn't make it into this comment section, am disappointed by humanity
@@ItchiestBum come on now, the only thing that makes the game look bad is its fandom. The game itself is a masterpiece
@@ItchiestBum you better be
@@charadreemurr2170 okay no NOOO i bet you like the fandom
"There are no appropriate uses for Comic Sans"
Baldi's Basics: "Hold my ruler"
Sans : hold my ketchup
I would like to see te reaction of those kids in 2020 when they see the comments that they used to make 4 years ago. You know what types of comments I'm talking about.
yep
im being killed by the font's ugliness and from the flying bones
What a dumbass... Real Frank would be ashamed of how bad TH-cam's community's gotten.
Doroknoth anonymous*
Sandra Larsen that was his channel name, was tagging him
Talks about Comic Sans:
Expected Audince: Writers, Font Designers, etc...
Actual Audince: Undertale/Deltarune Fans
You mean audience?
*audince*
*audince*
Hueheuhuehuehue
Audience*
Comic Sans is like shorts. You can wear them anywhere you want except for a formal meeting. Then you need a suit or a dress etc. But that doesn't mean shorts are useless, ugly things.
you can't wear shorts to a funeral.
Josh Dohme So I did something wrong?
unless you're invited to wear shorts, it's morally correct to wear a suit to a funeral.
+Erkut Soyer But unlike shorts, there are no reasons to use Comic Sans. Shorts can make your life nicer, but it isn't gonna make it easier to write in comic sans for example
I like shorts! They're comfy and easy to wear!
I have been using Comic Sans in school works since primary school. I absolutely love this font
I honestly really like how Comic Sans looks, so smooth and curvy with each letter
same
@Snas the Skletno @snas the Skletno
I kinda like it but its NOT my favorite font
@@Ultra2257 Ye, same.
@@roofogato my interest in Undertale has nothing to do with why I like this font.
I happen to not be a fan of the character Sans as well