In the past I've tried not to post up anything too negative about certain fonts, so what prompted me with the following ramblings? An end-user technical documentation which was dropped on my desk. The entire document was written using comic sans font. What's the harm in that you might be thinking? Well to me it gives me an instant impression of some amateur product written by some secretary who thinks it looks "cool" or "pretty".
In my honest opinion, Comic Sans really shouldn't be used in ANY professional documentation, letter heads or business card.
Obviously there is exception, when it's specifically aimed at very young children for example. Be warned though; don't make the same mistake as I did by uninstalling the font. It appears that some programs depend on it.
In the past I've also seen comic sans being used by a company promoting adult education specifically aimed at those reading difficulties, how patronising! They not dumb or childlike, they just can't read properly.
What's the point of this post? To tell the whole to avoid comic sans unless absolutely necessary!
Funnily enough the top result in Google for Comic Sans is a website called "
Ban Comic Sans"