The Dumbest Layout I Ever Made

[neo]

My first webpage had an orange background and lime green text xD.

I was 13, it was THE BOMB. In retrospect, horrifying XD

[Robin]

Orange background and lime-green text...sounds tasty, if not visually appetizing! LOLOLOL. Maybe it was the website version of a fruit salad? :D

[Crystal]

I once had a layout with Comic Sans, but no marquees. I actually liked that one. XD I prefer Arial and Verdana, but I don't mind Comic Sans, though a lot of people seem to dislike it, I can say I'm not one of them.

I've always wondered why people hate that font. I have no problem with it personally. xD

[nyxmidnight]

Overuse and inconsistency within the font, I believe.

[Mikari]

I used to see it a log in fan translations of manga, though I haven't been keeping up lately so I don't know how that's changed. It's definitely less common in sites though. XD

[Robin]

I've never used Comic Sans on a document or a site, mainly because I didn't care for how "kiddy" it made my text look. This was before I discovered the elitist hate against it, LOL

I am, however, guilty of overusing Times New Roman (or its close sibling "Times")...

[Crystal]

Ahh, I guess that makes sense. I remember my Dad making a remark about it the other day but I didn't really understand why.

@Robin: But Times New Romain is awesome! I like using it occasionally for my headers. It has an elegant feel to it I think.

[dubiousdisc]

Nooo, Times New Roman is great when used well! It looks like total ass at like, 11px, because it rescales very poorly, but once it's big? It looks just fine!

The problem with Comic Sans is that it has a kiddy personality to it, and people just overuse it for everything regardless of where it's appropriate to have that kiddy voice. On a worksheet for kindergarteners, it makes perfect sense. On a tombstone... ... ...maybe not. It's about tone, really.

Then I also have a personal vendetta against Comic Sans because people think that because it has "Comic" in the name, it should be used for lettering in comics. Now, I won't start a whole discussion on this because you have no idea how much of a lettering nerd I am and I admit on being really hard to please, but let me tell you: trying to read something like Battle Angel Alita when the scanlator chose Comic Sans for the lettering is...quite the experience. Very detailed picture of head exploding, SOUND EFFECT IN COMIC SANS. IT FEELS AS IF A FOUR-YEAR-OLD IS SAYING "BOOM" IN THE BACKGROUND.

[Robin]

@Crystal and @Dubs: YAY Times New Roman! (I agree, though, TINY Times New Roman is bootylicious...and not in the good way, LOL)

The funniest thing I ever saw printed in Comic Sans was an "Internet Safety Procedures" document for teachers at the middle school I interned with. Repeat: it was for the TEACHERS, not the students, to read...and it was in Comic Sans. I laughed through the whole document--not only had someone who was not Web-savvy written it, but it was in COMIC SANS like that was supposed to make it eminently more readable. xD

(I bet I still have the file somewhere around here...*digs around in hard drive for LOLs*)

[Mikari]

I don't like Times New Roman because they always asked us to use it for school projects so it reminds me of homework. I guess that's not really the font's fault though.

I'm also not very sensitive to tone in font it seems. Things like that don't occur to me unless I'm purposely trying to look for it, like when I'm picking a font for a site title. The rest of the time fonts are either "cool" or "boring" not really "appropriate" or "inappropriate."