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HA! The Massachusetts Department of Mental Health produces various screening questionnaires in comic sans.
Posted 61 months ago.
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The camp I used to work at needed to overhaul the Pool Rules sign. Originally, it was your standard driftwood plank with the rules carved into it. It made for a great display.
Well, when they got it redesigned, they did only one thing right: They made the rules positive (i.e. "Only walk" in place of "Don't run.")
The sign was entirely Comic Sans. I wish I got a picture of it before I left.
Posted 59 months ago.
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Howdy—just discovered this group after writing a blog entry blasting Comic Sans. I work in biomedical research and often attend international scientific meetings. Can't tell you how many times I've seen highly technical presentation titles in Comic Sans emblazoned across the top of a research poster.
Posted 58 months ago.
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i found a hologram with comic sans, and a friend of mine has a picture of a grave with comic sans.
Posted 58 months ago.
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Oh wow, a grave in CS. Photo please!
Posted 58 months ago.
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You're mentioning some quite interesting uses here! Scientific presentations are seen too often in Comic Sans, but a grave!
Posted 57 months ago.
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Speaking of graves, I was walking on a newly renovated area by the beach about 2 hours from where I live at the weekend. There were some new memoiral benches, so I went over to have a closer look, and wished I hadn't:
I would be turning in my grave if that was mine!
Posted 55 months ago.
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It spoils an otherwise pleasant area...
Posted 55 months ago.
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I had seen another use in memorial plaque... with much the same reaction.
Posted 55 months ago.
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I just posted this one, which strikes me as especially inappropriate:
Posted 53 months ago.
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Funny are business cards where Comic Sans serif is used.
Doctors use CS a lot for signs in waiting rooms, etc.
Maybe off-topic, but what I hate most "fun mails" with comic sans serif and animated smiley gifs.
btw, great group. is there a group about "ms word art"?
Posted 53 months ago.
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Ugh. MS Word Art is bad. Very bad.
Posted 52 months ago.
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bimbeskanzler has taken an excellent photo of a gravestone carved in Comic Sans. It is even for a doctor.
Posted 52 months ago.
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Well, it's not so much in real life, but check out this website about a "horrific" triple murder...
Posted 49 months ago.
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Adam Bulleid Photography [deleted] says:
my school runs on fucking comic sans
the science department is clad out in comic sans
the french department is clad out in comic sans
the geography department is clad out in comic sans
il get some pics
Posted 48 months ago.
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Papers documenting the conditions that Omar Khadr, the only Canadian being held at Gitmo (where he's been since he was arrested after 9/11 when he was 15) has been living under, which include being sleep-deprived, among other things, were released today.
Notwithstanding the charges he was taken in for have been disproved, or the portions that were blacked out for security purposes, the stuff they showed on our evening news was in Comic Sans.
Originally posted 47 months ago.
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I got all the tax paperwork back from my accountant a few years ago with a pre-addressed envelope. The address for the IRS was printed in Comic Sans. I used a different envelope, and I don't use that accountant anymore.
Posted 45 months ago.
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The title of the webpage of "Design Rationale" research group at MIT CSAIL. Seeing the words "Design Rationale" in that god forsaken non-font made me cry for a little.
Posted 43 months ago.
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a government job application. (if i hadn't been totally desperate...thank God i didn't get the job)
a government benefits application. (shameful!!)
Posted 43 months ago.
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Maybe not THEE most inappropriate use ever but... when we had teacher reviews handed out to us at the end of last term I burst out laughing in the middle of class when I saw that the 2 page long, (standard department wide) review was entirely in Comic Sans. The part that made it so funny? This is for the Art/ Graphic Design department. And I don't think it was meant to be ironic.
Posted 38 months ago.
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I just read about this group on the Wall Street Journal of all places, and I'm so glad to have found like-minded haters!
Posted 38 months ago.
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The Parisian honour the Virgin with Comic Sans at the Notre Dame of Paris:
Posted 38 months ago.
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Address labels from the passport office. I sent them a letter (set in a nice cut of Garamond).
Posted 34 months ago.
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I once drove past what I thought was a kindergarten or something like that since the building was red .. but no. it was a fire station. it said "fire station" with huge yellow letters in Comic Sans on the front of the building.
Posted 29 months ago.
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I wish I'd gotten a picture, because the latest version is in a typeface that actually makes some sort of sense... but several years ago, the Georgia driving manual was set entirely in Comic Sans.
Posted 28 months ago.
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This one goes in the "Most inappropriate" pool as well:
Sex offender notice printed with a child-like font. Really... really?
Posted 26 months ago.
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a book in the library entitled Erotic Bondage with the photo of a naked woman from pelvis to neck, in white bondage rope. Author and title all comic Sans. Sexy :/
Posted 26 months ago.
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On Divine Mercy Sunday 2009, I looked at a flyer for the Divine Mercy Chaplet - in mostly Comic Sans! What the peas!?
Posted 26 months ago.
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How's this for inappropriate?
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no this is the worse use ever.
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This is the most inappropriate use of Comic Sans:
Originally posted 19 months ago.
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