I don’t even know what it’s called, but I really hope it goes the way of Comic Sans
Edit: does anyone actually know what this awful font is called?
Comic Sans was hand-crafted, technically excellent, highly legible and served it’s purpose perfectly. The only thing it has in common with this shite is that people used it for fucking e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g.
I love comic sans just because it’s the easiest to read. I write everything in comic sans and then reformat afterwards.
Is there a monospaced version of comic sans for programming?
Yes: https://dtinth.github.io/comic-mono-font/
I used it for a while thinking it helped me, but actually turns out I just needed a bigger font size
It’s apparently not just limited to English. Not that it would be, guess I just never thought about it.
It’s the iconic design for this generation and in 10 or 15 years, people will be nostalgic for that
Sloppy sans
I’m sitting in front of a school advertisement billboard with this font rn
It’s either this shit or the fucking humanoid robot in every tech related post touching a holo screen showing completely pointless and unrelated data
The explosion of shitty illustrations attached to every tech article has been so hideous to behold. Somehow even worse than the fact that so many of them are totally pointless slop.
I dislike the font, but I REALLY fucking hate what they’re doing with food. It’s like they’re all using the same horrible model that has never seen hashbrowns and BBQ sauce. You ask midjounrey for a steak, it makes you a convincing steak. It’s like every restaurant in every country is set on tryptophobic food
this is an insult to comic sans; that ai font is way worse than it
I’ve been absolutely shocked walking through city centers and seeing these fucking AI flyers everywhere. Boycot whoever uses this shit and pay your local artists and graphic designers.
I am in Japan right now and they were selling postcards with AI images. Not even art made by humans…
I’ve seen that in a city I visited, three seperate shops with those and people were still there browsing
The essential qualities of a good typeface balance visual beauty with practical function. This is just plain ugly and makes Comic sans look elegant. Using this crud is as acceptable as attending a funeral dressed as a clown.
Comic Sans was - is - a frigging superb font. It was destroyed by being abused.
That’s more like using Comic Sans for the obituary
I know multiple people that would want clowns at their funerals
My grandfather was a clown for the Shriners, and he literally had clowns at his funeral! He was also the first balloon twister I ever saw. He started back in the 60s, twisting balloons into dogs for sick kids in hospitals, dressed as a clown. He was a special guy.
Juggalos?
You’re absolutely right to push bwck on this, it is a dogshit slop-font.
What else can i help you with today?
Octoberfest this year had a lot of stands, all with the same AI slop posters. I bought a burger from a stand with just a handwritten sign. Felt good.
What gets me is they’re all the same style. Do they not see that their posters are the same as everyone else’s??
Anyone competent enough to understand that effort is a vital component of modern marketing is already steering clear of AI slop nonsense. It’s the stupids that are left believing that doing something as cheaply and easily as possible won’t reflect poorly on their business.
and good lord there’s a lot of stupid people out there.
You have far too much faith in taste.
I have a lot to say about how and why, but i think these people though their posters looked good before they saw everyone have the same style.
Like how Walmart and Target are competitors, but their themes complement each other as to what we expect from their stores. It’s something a successful business can’t ignore. See power tools brands have all cornered their respective color theme, but up close they all perform similar to our expectations before anything else.
So AI steps in, advertised it can make posters now, and people believe it. Either they can’t afford an artist, or don’t care enough to consider. Swaths of salt-of-earth businesses jump to use it, naively, and kinda out themselves accidentally as the amateurs they are.
Everyone sees it, and realized too late. I think that style will die off pretty quickly if business owners know what’s good for them.
It’s just so absurd that AI as a solution is just again, seen as another poison to the thing it’s supposed to solve. If I were to write a story about it, I couldn’t make it up. The absurdity has it’s own gravitational pull.
They each probably thought they had this great idea of getting a crazy unique AI sign before they showed up and saw that everyone had the same idea.
I see more or less the same at craft fairs: lots of the same stuff, lazy dad crafts, lazy mom crafts (done at scale). All following the same toktok or Instagram trend.
To the signs thing, I think I’d rather see a generic stencil and spray paint sign. At least that’s real.
Is that some AI clone of Oktoberfest?
A few of the half decent, small YouTube channels I follow started using it in their thumbnails as a way to polish up their channel. Little do they know is all it does is suck the soul out of their content.
I have developed a rule for myself. If I see a channel using genAI in their thumbnails, it goes on the do not recommend this channel again list.
Me with anything LTT
