(The Turkish Vogue next month will bring a premium of Comic Sans, but with typical bond Brush Script, the Jiffy)
(For Bender Baruch) We told you so first. In Typographically, our font blog, most of which have discussed the hate. All inks are loaded and have demonstrated their hatred of Comic Sans and Brush Script. 89% of those who have given a name to his aversion have not hesitated to choose Vincent Connare creation in 1994, Microsoft Windows, and created by Robert E. Smith for American Type Founders in 1942. Since the advent of Windows 95, Comic Sans becomes the most used by users as part of additional fonts included with Windows Plus Pack. In fact, Connare, an employee of Bill Gates, and had imagined a series of fonts designed for children in other applications of the parent. So when he noticed that the beta version of Microsoft Bob used Times New Roman (another hated by those who believed in Typographically) in sandwiches animated characters, did not think too much. Microsoft Bob was an application of the company was launched in March 1995 for Windows 3.1, to improve the image of the operating system. Script
While created as an alternative to formal script font type, based on strokes of a pen chisel tip that achieve thick and thin strokes. The fonts were inspired by the style of writing that existed in the late eighteenth century and during the XIV. For example, are known the Kuenstler Script and Snell Roundhand. Belongs to the Brush Script Informal group, as its outline is more irregular in width. BS premiums are the Kaufmann Script and Mistral. Almost all of them seem to have been drawn by the same brush, unlike the stroke of the pen of the formal.
But beyond its origins and its subsequent applications accident wrong, Comic Sans Brush Script today and become yet to reach its final claim. We've shown you before. The international women's magazines have become the leading real editorial power plants (part of this phenomenon is reflected daily in Mala). Today, all, almost without exception, have risen to cover the latest versions of these fonts.
(Avant Garde font with two informal)
For example, this month we have the beginning of what could be a battle of titans that typos. Avant Garde magazine does not live up to its name and choose two fonts gestures. On the one hand, lower-serif brand is made in the Wendy Garrett Boge (1995). The strangest thing I propose a title made in typography Swiss designer Joachim Müller-lance. The Flood (1994) has a very heavy script, which contrasts sharply with the logo with an overly condensed, because their strokes are similar to a brush with a little ink.
(Elle Mexico returns to the creation of Connare)
Mexican Elle magazine no hesitation in planting a Comic Sans in magenta, to scream its main title. This shows that the central plant design magazine has no problem to be associated definitively with the more traditional version of the font created by Microsoft employee. So much so that even the Norwegian version of the publication brings in the main titles.
(The French Jalouse again encouraged other relative of the Brush)
Again, the French magazine Jalouse Liorah let the occupying most of his home, covering the leg bone showing almost by Karen Elson. This rare version of the Brush Script was created by American designer Holly Goldsmith.
now Visually forward to you (before anyone else): It is the Courier. This typeface, designed by Howard "Bud" Kettler, and then redrawn by Adrian Frutiger, now covers almost the entire cover of Cover. Today, the Courier, and Comic Sans Brush Script are the most hated, depending on what emerges from the vote we did in Typographically, where nearly two hundred professionals gave vent to his dislike.
We first told you so back the Comic Sans. Then we said the same of the Brush Script. And today I advised him of the Courier. (We being the first)
(The Cover made all the fonts created in 1955 to IBM)
