Nine classic and elegant fonts with their canine counterparts. And then there's Comic Sans. (Via)
Culture Buzz Typography doesn't nee to be boring! It can be pretty badass actually. via The Uniblog
Culture Buzz In a world where Comic Sans is too ugly and Helvetica is too pretentious, there is a font that will save us all. And that font is shaped like a llama. Send your next birthday invite with this lovely typeface.
Food Buzz What could be better than peanut butter & jelly? Peanut butter & jelly making out inside an ampersand!
An animated short by Alessandro Novelli depicting characters that illustrate the first letter of a type of font. Comic Sans is conspicuously absent.
Tech Buzz Please feel free to add your own, if you're into that type of thing. Zing! (WARNING: Do not click if you don't enjoy dumb jokes about fonts and stuff.)
Seems like there are a million and one ways to kill comic sans. For some reason, it always seems to come back from the dead.
Culture Buzz Star Wars characters constructed with nothing but typography. The font is strong with this one!
http://kottke.org/10/09/helvetica-in-space
Let's say you wanted to stretch one “helvetica” over the same distance…at what point size would you need to set it? The answer is 282.6 billion points.
http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/monologues/15comicsans.html
McSweeney's offers us a delightful imagined rant by that most-hated of all fonts. “I'm not just a font. I am a force of motherfucking nature and I will not rest until every uptight armchair typographer cock-hat like you is surrounded by my lovable, comic-book inspired, sans-serif badassery.”
This made me smile. For all you font snobs out there it should do the same. For those of you using Comic Sans—stop.
Boom Boom ! / Poor old Comic Sans is the target of all the Typography Jokesters.
Food Buzz These are way more delicious than Arial cookies, but not quite as delicious as Tahoma cookies (just kidding!). Via SwissMiss.