Brian Cox, NO!!

by Nadir on July 6, 2012 at 12:29 pm

I was totally ready to let Fontgate go. I was. Totally ready to move on to something else and pretend it never happened. It’s better for my nerves. But people keep saying silly things in defense of it, and such pushback will not stand, folks.

I almost always overlook ignorance in these cases, (see any comment with “I don’t understand all the…” “what’s the big deal…” “why…”) poor souls don’t know any better, and that’s ok. I believe some people truly cannot tell the difference between fonts and don’t get the big deal (and can’t seem to figure out how Google search works to read up on it*). But then there’s trolling by scientists and science advocates that clearly know better. Well, sirs and madams, that convinced me that we should at least finish out the week with some more anti-Comic-Sans awareness.

I’m pretty sure everyone’s just having fun with this even if inflection gets lost in some comments, (and Brian Cox isn’t much of an offender even if he gets the brunt in the comic**) but there’s a massive non-sequitur trend going around in various forms of ‘Big Science did something awesome, therefore they can poop on Graphic design however they want.’ Anyone in this camp has to understand one thing: They sure can. And we’re gonna make fun of them a whole lot for it.

Graphic Design is a discipline and as such there are ways to do it right and even more way to do it wrong. Comic sans, any application of it whatsoever, is wrong.*** And it’s been wrong for years. I would never even use it in a comic.**** So when we’re trying to focus on details of a big presentation like that on Wed. and see Comic Sans, it comes across like this:

“WE fOuNd teH HiGgs bOsoN–LULZIES!! *fart joke* J/K we don’t know or care how to use this slide presentation program thingy. Science tastes like watermelons! I will now end my presentation with armpit farts. *frrp-frrp-FRrrp*” -Cern

Totally up to them if they want to do that. But then we’re all: “Could someone help them with that please? What? they’re doing it on purpose? oh. no. they. didn’t. It’s webcomic time!”
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*see comments from Wed.
**Then again he did stick his neck out in favor of C-S.
***Unless you’re 4.
****The voice of Comic-Sans in todays comic was the only time I’ve ever used it, and I’m going to start a regimen of antibiotics.

└ Tags: Brian Cox, CERN, Comic Sans, Fontgate, Fonts, Higgs Boson, LHC

http://twitter.com/RMIGamingBlog RMI – A Gaming Blog

http://achewood.com/index.php?date=07052007 Oh comic sans, you can’t outrun all the damage you’ve done.
eonL5

That’s “regimen of antibiotics” — unless they’re all lined up with their rifles at parade rest or something.
- NBalan
  
  ‘k
Rob Harper

Is my brain dissolving here or did you just do a drive-by Hellblazer reference?
Eric

There isn’t much of a difference between Comic Sans and the font you usually use. I had to read the paragraphs below the comic to find out you weren’t using some kind of Comic Sans for everything.
- NBalan
  
  I believe you that you cannot see much of a difference, and that’s ok.
  (especially when they’re not side by side, though the font I generally
  use is less jokey) But that’s besides the point since it’s in the
  context of a comic strip. I wouldn’t use CS in a comic specifically
  because it’s so tarnished (and sends red flags of laziness and lack of
  interest). It isn’t the design of CS that ruined it, it’s the (ongoing) abuse. Any other font used inappropriately to such a degree would gain equal scorn (see papyrus).
Rad

PZ Meyers is the only person I’ve seen who uses Comic Sans appropriately.
http://dailygrail.com/ Red Pill Junkie

Since they were making the announcement of ‘The God Particle’, maybe they should have used Blackletter instead
http://laroquodexperiment.com/hypo/0.1/ Paul Laroquod

It’s a complete waste of time and energy to try to police physicists (or anyone, really) in their use of a font. It’s not that people don’t know that the internet has a rage-on over a font. It’s that they just don’t care; so I suggest you get over it, too, because you are not educating anyone with this.
- NBalan
  
  oh, ok. So to clarify without adding anything*, Paul Laroquod decided that
  we were trying to police physicists in their use of a font, offered that
  they already know about the issue and just don’t care, and commented to suggest we get over
  it.
  
  *just to test my own reading comprehension levels.
  - http://laroquodexperiment.com/hypo/0.1/ Paul Laroquod
    
    You forgot the bit about the blog post being a waste of time and energy.
    - NBalan
      
      aw man, I was so close to actually being able to understand what somebody wrote before I commented.
      - http://laroquodexperiment.com/hypo/0.1/ Paul Laroquod
        
        I know how you feel. I was so close to actually being able to appreciate your rejoinders in this thread… except that grammar is a discipline. So you see, there are ways to do it right, and even more ways to do it wrong. Also, any application of mid-sentence line breaks whatsoever is wrong. But hey, this is just good-natured ribbing so any response you might have to my criticisms is auto-cancelled. Enjoy your day! 8)
    - http://sci-ence.org Maki
      
      I’m really glad we have you around to dictate what is worth writing about.
The Paul

Wait, I thought we were all doing a bit of a self-parody with all this comic-sans hate.

Are we outraged for real?
- NBalan
  
  I went out of my way to indicate that (I felt like) both sides are having fun ribbing each other because it’s so easy. Real font nuts may disagree.
dr__pepper

I don’t get it. What’s wrong with comic sans?
Cayuga

What a beautiful, appropriate, hysterical, analogy!
Derpface

So what about the claim that Comic Sans is easier on dyslexic people?

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