Welcome to the new bancomicsans.com
In 1995 Microsoft released the font Comic Sans originally designed for comic book style talk bubbles containing informational help text. Since that time the typeface has been used in countless contexts from restaurant signage to college exams to medical information. These widespread abuses of printed type threaten to erode the very foundations upon which centuries of typographic history are built.
While we recognize the font may be appropriate in a few specific instances, our position is that the only effective means of ending this epidemic of abuse is to completely ban Comic Sans.
We understand font selection is a matter of personal preference and that many people may disagree with us. However, if you agree with our position, you can sign the online petition to ban comic sans.
Bancomicsans.com is new and improved using WordPress! The old site is still here minus some links and resources that have been moved over to the new site. More improvements will be coming soon, so check back often. We’re planning to add more sticker designs, free fonts, and interviews and articles to the archives. We welcome your comments and suggestions. Thanks, and have a Comic Sans-free day.
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ban, ban, ban, ban!!!!!
I appreciate that your campaign, but how can your website be both “new and improved”. That is a phrase that also needs banning.
This website/movement has inspired me to use exclusively comic sans in all of my future documents!
Thanks bancomicsans! Eat a dick!
Bravo! Bravo!
Let’s ban!
Here’s a site with 100% Comic Sans infestation:
http://www.momsclubgjw.us/
Who cares? This is so not important.
I’m still yearning for coming back onto real-ink-written fonts, such as in 1800, but while waiting, I agree with this. Comic-Sans font is a visible sign that society is becoming stupid and artless. Yeha!
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[...] Sans hartnäckig überlebt. Auch schön: die humorige Initiative der Designer Dave und Holly Combs ban comic sans. Online-Petition zur Kampagne [...]
Is this site some sort of a joke? Is there sarcasm here or are you serious? You are out to ban Comic Sans and then make all those other Comic Sans look-alike fonts available for download on your site?
Agreed; printing the Bible or the Declaration of Independence in Comic Sans would be the epitome of ignorance, but it is not the font itself that deserves your ire. Like all things, it is the people who are using it that need to take responsibility.
How about banning MS Sans Serif, the default windows font that makes it nearly impossible to see the difference between half the letters in the alphabet when you’re running any monitor resolution above 640×480? That’s a ban I could get behind.
This has to be a joke. There is no way in hell a group of people can dedicate this much time into banning a font. I know I would feel pretty pathetic if I publicly admitted that I am spending my time and money as an activist to ban a font.
How can anyone hate comic sans?
You want to ban a font? because it “threaten(s) to erode the very foundations upon which centuries of typographic history are built.” And that evil font is comic sans?
I understand irritation from an overused fad. But ban a font? I’d rather ban overused internet phrases like “Welcome to (website name)” or “threaten(s) to erode the very foundations upon which centuries on which (practice) were built.”
Gotta love fascism!
You said “These widespread abuses of printed type threaten to erode the very foundations upon which centuries of typographic history are built.” Tell me how a single font threaten anything at all?
What a waste of time. Why don’t you start a campaign that will actually help someone or a charity?
LONG LIVE COMIC SANS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You morons are giant fucking faggots, if you hate comic sans so much popularize a better font you stupid shits, fuck your like those frenchies who dictate the language has to stay a certain way, no change allowed.
Here’s another site 100% infested with Comic Sans. When I see Comic Sans, I see a typical AOL user, the most technologically clueless people in the world. A sub-culture of morons.
http://bugspray.com
What’s really amusing is the people who come here defending Comic Sans and even resorting to violent vulgarity. I’ll bet if any of them have their own websites that use Comic Sans, their sites look like vintage 1995 web design using Gomer html editor and use free Juno website hosting. Or maybe they’ve advanced and now use the $4.99 a month Intuit website design with all the templates with the cute little puppy dog designs.
youre all nerds this is really just sad to see