Passive-aggression in the workplace

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 7/23/10 at 12:43pm

Y'know...I have been unemployed for quite some time and just ran out of my unemployment benefits. It sucks....but at least I don't have to put up with work environments like this.

Updated On: 7/23/10 at 12:43 PM

[D2]

Posted: 7/23/10 at 12:45pm

They do have a point about Comic Sans, though.

[tazber]

Posted: 7/23/10 at 12:50pm

That's hilarious.

Didn't the head coach of the Cavaliers use that in his letter blasting LeBron James?

Everyone made fun of him for it.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 7/23/10 at 12:53pm

I never understand the Comic Sans thing. I know I'm a nerd, but vitriol (even in jest) regarding a font just goes right over my head.

[D2]

Posted: 7/23/10 at 12:54pm

It's a graphic designer thing, Phyllis.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 7/23/10 at 12:57pm

It's still ... getting pissed off over a font.

[morosco]

Posted: 7/23/10 at 12:57pm

There is a website dedicated to the elimination of comic sans.
Ban Comic Sans

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 7/23/10 at 12:59pm

I still don't get it.

[strummergirl]

Posted: 7/23/10 at 1:01pm

taz- It was the owner who wrote on the team website in comic sans, who fired the coach before 'The Decision', and he continued to use that when he defended himself from Jesse Jackson or his failed pursuit of trying to get Tom Izzo to coach. You expect a billionaire to use a more professional tone with more professional font, I guess.

[D2]

Posted: 7/23/10 at 1:04pm

Phyllis, you'd be amazed at how seriously some designers get over typography. They can rival the main board posters for trivial pettiness. I've been in meetings at school where faculty members get into shouting matches over the importance of type classes vs. concept and/or technical skills classes in the curriculum.

I usually laugh, and then go teach my students that while typography is important, it's the idea that really matters.

You can imagine how popular I am with some of the other typomad faculty.

[morosco]

Posted: 7/23/10 at 1:04pm

From WIKI...

The Boston Phoenix reported on disgruntlement over the widespread use of the font, especially its incongruous use for writing on serious subjects, with the complaints focused around a campaign started by two Indianapolis graphic designers, Dave and Holly Combs, via their website "Ban Comic Sans".[3] The movement was conceived in the autumn of 1999 by the two designers, after an employer insisted that one of them use Comic Sans in a children's museum exhibit,[1] and in early 2009, the movement was "stronger now than ever".[1] The web site's main argument is that a typeface should match the tone of its text, and that the irreverence of Comic Sans is often at odds with a serious message, such as a "do not enter" sign.[4]

The Combs' site also reported the Ontario New Democratic Party included the clause 'Ban the font known as Comic Sans' in its omnibus ban bill, proposed at the 2005 session of Ontario Model Parliament in Canada. However, the message was signed under 'NDP Against Comic Sans', leading to doubts of the validity of the claim. Further investigation revealed it was from a youth model parliament.[5]

Connare has said that Comic Sans was not originally designed as a typeface for general use, but as a cartoon-style lettering suitable for the interface of Microsoft Bob.[1]

Comic letterer Dave Gibbons, whose work was the inspiration for the font, said that it was "a shame they couldn't have used just the original font, because [Comic Sans] is a real mess. I think it's a particularly ugly letter form."[6],/i>

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 7/23/10 at 1:07pm

I would guess the disconnect is that most laymen don't know that it originated with comic strips (I wouldn't have thought that, even though it was comic in the name. I don't understand what sans or serif in a font means either) and probably don't think it's as whimsical as the most nerdy of us do. That's just my guess.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 7/23/10 at 1:10pm

Please stop the use of excessive exclamation points!!! Thank you!!!

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 7/23/10 at 1:14pm

Word. Or excessive question marks. Just stop with all multiple punctuation. Period!

[wonkit]

Posted: 7/23/10 at 1:24pm

Further type trivia - sans serif means any font that does not have (sans = French for without) the little flourishes at the ends of the letters. Serifs were actually type-setters' remnants of the pen drag when people wrote with fountain pens (or quills). Research has shown that eyes tire more readily when reading a sans serif, and speed readers read more slowly with long paragraphs of sans serif print.

And this board font is, BTW, sans serif, too.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 7/23/10 at 1:25pm

That's very interesting. Thanks for that!

[D2]

Posted: 7/23/10 at 1:29pm

Research has also shown that sans serif fonts are easier to read on screen (hence this board, as Wonkit pointed out), while serif fonts are easier to read in print.

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 7/23/10 at 1:37pm

I was a graphic design major. I will never forget the ribbing I got for using Hobo in a project once. HA. Oh, facepalm...

Have you guys seen this? http://www.cracked.com/funny-5647-fonts/

IT'S ALL TRUE. Except the item about mixing sans serif and serif; it can be done.

[D2]

Posted: 7/23/10 at 1:41pm

HOBO, Lizzie? HOBO?

[Unknown User]

Posted: 7/23/10 at 1:58pm

If you notice the font, something is really wrong.

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 7/23/10 at 2:09pm

D2: I know, I know. It was an intro class, is my only defense.

[D2]

Posted: 7/23/10 at 2:16pm

Full disclosure, Lizzie: I used Mistral when I was a student, and the professor went ballistic. And I was a Senior, I should have known better. My only defense is that it was the 80s, not typography's best decade.

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 7/23/10 at 2:58pm

I use Tahoma at work, Verdana at home. Sometimes Trebuchet MS.

My coworker always picks different "cute" fonts for each part of her email signature, and different colors. I believe her name is currently the font Kristen in purple. *shudder*

Updated On: 7/23/10 at 02:58 PM