Name: コミックサンズの擁護 (A Defense of Comic Sans)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T10:20:05.000Z
Duration: 9 min 53 s
Description: VoiceTubeの動画で発音を聞きながら英語表現を覚えよう！学べる英語：

words and letters are printed, they have to wear the

clothing of a typeface. A font family. We don't always think of it this way, but

Even right now, here on YouTube, when you leave a comment,

you are communicating your own words, your own thoughts,

but through the visual styling of someone

else - the creator up Arial. In these Vsauce videos,

Jake, Kevin, myself and others use Alsina,

because it most closely resembles the handwritingof

as fashion for letters is not a new idea.

Adrian Frutiger famously said that the work of a type designer

as Alan Fletcher put it, a typeface is an

alphabet in in a straitjacket. Some typefaces have serifs

and some don't. Some are famously neutral,

of all time. Comic Sans. People who consider themselves

discerning designers scoff at its ubiquity,

don't know better. It was recently reported that

on Twitter, the only thing complained about more often than Justin Bieber,

list of hand-written looking fonts that they would prefer you use

cool again, ironically. David OReilly's amazing t-shirts, for example.

Comic Sans has going for it. The British Dyslexia Association considers

a particularly good font for children who have trouble reading letters because

characters, like the letter A. For most of our history

written, often meticulously and expensively copied

by hand. There were no printers, no typesetters.

literally write by hand the whole book for you.

But Gutenberg changed that by popularizing

interchangeable type. He modelled his tight pieces after the

handwriting of scribes at the time, producing what could be called

Later on, typesetters in Italy realized that words could be

but take up less vertical space, so more could be printed on a single

page. That's why it's called italics. Not because

but because of where it was invented - Italy. Metal type

in foundries, which get their name from the French

fondue, which means something that has been melted.

And so it's because of the word fondue that we now call a collection of characters

typesetters kept their type pieces in cases.

The most commonly used pieces were kept in the lower case for easy access,

whereas capitals were kept just a little above

to Comic Sans. Comic Sans was designed in 1994

by Vincent Connare. According to the BBC,

Melinda Gates herself asked Connare to design

a font for the cartoon dog in Microsoft Bob

Connare had designed Comic Sans, based on hand drawn fonts

from comic books. It never actually made it into the final version of

but was subsequently released as a font choice on so many Microsoft products

that it became what it is today. Million of amateurs now had access to this font,

which seemed simple and cute and became popular on things like homemade birthday

For instance, on an official Canadian coin

Because of things like that, Comic Sans has amassed

a lot of haters. But it was never intended to be used

so often or in such inappropriate situations.

Another way to think of it is this. Discerning type aficionados

may recognize Comic Sans so quickly because

anybody with a computer can take a stab at it

you. To be sure, Comic Sans, objectively speaking,

isn't really that well designed according to the fundamentals of type

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