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Dark Horse
Member Since: 1/2/2014
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More iconic font: Comic Sans vs Helvetica
This has nothing to do with the quality of the fonts but rather which one is more iconic
Helvetica is used everywhere. It's like the "default font".
Comic Sans is immediately recognized by most people for being that font. It became the font for sarcasm and memes and took the world by storm
Which font is more iconic?
Summerboy95
Member Since: 4/4/2014
Posts: 6,415
Post #2
Comic Sans-
bleuwaffle
Member Since: 11/26/2010
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Post #3
Helvetica since it's
everywhere
, tho Comic Sans is iconic in it's own way.
Guernica
Member Since: 5/7/2012
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Post #4
Sadly comic sans for all the wrong reasons
BlooRiverAnimal
Member Since: 8/4/2012
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Post #5
Neither, Book Antiqua >>>>>
Madam X
Member Since: 5/24/2012
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Post #6
Comic Sans, but it's close.
dangerouslush
Member Since: 3/2/2014
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But Comic Sans doesn't have its own dedicated documentary...Helvetica
NOW
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Post #8
Helvetica is iconic but too overused. I personally really like Univers for sans-serif and Mrs. Eaves as serif
NOW
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Post #9
Comic Sans aint EVER doing it!
phonpei05
Member Since: 8/19/2013
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Post #10
times new roman or arial?
Luzianne
Member Since: 6/12/2011
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Post #11
Helvetica is LEGENDARY in the world of typography and graphic design. They HATE comic sans and all those other wacky typefaces.
I think Arial is a Helvetica knock-off, by the way.
Dark Horse
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Post #12
idk
if u show the majority this
will they immediately say helvetica?
but if u show ppl this
definitely comic sans
Rihinvention
Member Since: 4/3/2014
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Post #13
I'd have to say Myriad Pro, because of Apple's marketing/design.
Kingpin
Member Since: 3/19/2011
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Post #14
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dangerouslush
But Comic Sans doesn't have its own dedicated documentary...Helvetica
Had to watch this when I was studying graphic design, it's actually pretty interesting!
Comic Sans reminds me of doing Word documents in primary school with the rainbow vertical wordArt
materialboy
Member Since: 9/1/2013
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Post #15
Comic Sans since almost everyone knows it's name
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