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The fol­low­ing typefaces are HORRIBLE. There are very few situ­ations where their use is war­ran­ted. They are a plague.

Horrible TypefacesHatchet film

The King of Kong divx

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  • deckchair guru
    July 14th, 2006 at 9:30 pm

    I couldn’t agree more on Comic Sans — I loathe it.

    But Arial?! It’s the most decent of the stand­ard fonts.

  • Dan
    July 15th, 2006 at 3:39 am

    Arial is a ripoff of Hel­vetica. If you blow it up real big you can see the dif­fer­ences between them. Arial doesn’t have the proper stroke widths, and it is a bit crude in com­par­ison to other typefaces.

    The Scourge of Arial

  • deckchair guru
    July 15th, 2006 at 3:00 pm

    Inter­est­ing art­icle and good to know the his­tory of it.

    I work with Swis 721 at work, I quite like that font.

  • Punctuated prose
    July 17th, 2006 at 12:36 pm

    Hey do I really get a penny for my thoughts? I don’t have any at the moment but if one comes along I’ll let you know!

    PS. I’m for helvetica.

  • Anton
    August 23rd, 2006 at 6:49 pm

    I was taught by my house­mate who study typo­graphy and design them. He is a wiz at them, just give him a pic­ture of a word and he will tell you what font it is within seconds. He knows all com­mon fonts by heart and can com­pare or point out which cat­egory it belongs.

    He abso­lutely loath Arial, most obvi­ous is look at the R, it is out of area and ugly com­pared to Helvetica.

    But again 99% of all typeface out there are shit., have a flaw, so on.

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