this was written for comedic effect in a burst of creative zeal. I also suspect people who diss CS also look down on Provolone cheese in favor of Gouda, and sneer at Boone’s Farm in favor of some snooty French wine, and deride comfortable polo shirts in favor of some dark turtleneck creation designed to make men look like emaciated ghouls.Īnyway, to each his (or her) own, but I for one. at the very least it serves very well to annoy designers with discerning eyes. Really, all the arguments I’ve read are the equivalent of stuffy literature professors finding science fiction not to their liking, and for that we are being told we should avoid it. I’ve read CS is “inappropriate” in a formal setting, so naturally it’s set as my default on my regular e-mail, a venue where I often discuss things of tremendous importance to the human race, and it was the default for my work e-mail, a venue where decisions involving many tens of dollars are discussed and consented to. Sadly, CS has been replaced with the equivalent of droopy jeans and backward baseball caps you know, stuff the hip crowd deems “in”, but which is usual nothing more than a desperate cry for saying “Hey! Look at me!! I am different” in place of actually being different. Perhaps why one of the tags for this post is avantgarde.
The only explanation I heard that makes somewhat sense is that it was overused (whatever that means), and it fell out of favor. the argument above is predicated on being aware of the fonts, not vice-versa.Īs such, I don’t know what makes Comic Sans an awful typeface. If you liked this article you may also like 9 Successful Colour Combinations for Web and Graphic Design Other fonts architects like are: Avantgarde, OCR, Arial, Bauhaus 93, Gill Sans and Proxy Many successful and professional-looking boards have titles at the top right, at the bottom, or somewhere. The most common placement for a title bar is the top left since your board will most likely follow a left-to-right and top-to-bottom progression. According to a survey I’ve been doing this week, there are 5 fonts architects can’t do without, regardless of our nationality and where we’ve studied. A list and description of the most popular fonts for architecture. Mies van der Rohe once stated “God is in the details” and apparently us architects pay a lot of attention to the fonts we use. Among all types of designers, architects have proven to be especially picky in terms of typography.