A Defense of Comic Sans
?? ??????? ?? ????? ???? Even the geniuses at CERN use Comic Sans: http://img.clubic.com/05281294-photo-presentation-boson-higgs-cern.jpg...
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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 YouTube, 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 handwritingof 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...
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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 YouTube, 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 handwritingof 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...
