As a designer I have to disagree. A font is not just a font. We love in a world where we and our products are judged first by appearance it's best not to use a font that looks it's written in a marker by a first grader on an official document.

Prefacing your comment by calling yourself a designer does not increase the strength of said comment. Neither does over exaggerating to try to make your point. "marker by a first grader?" priceless. You must never seen first graders write before because it would be a compliment to the first grader if his/her handwriting was even remotely close to Comic Sans. Your tactics are invalid.

As a designer, I still think you're a pretentious twit.

Much of the distaste is because of the inconsistent spacing and capitalization in comic sans. It is supposed to be patterned after comic book lettering, but does not even work well for that purpose.

People hate Comic Sans just to agree with others because they are afraid to be themselves. I absolutely love Comic Sans.

Pretty sure it's because it looks childish, whereas fonts like Times New Roman and Calibri are clear, clean and professional

#124 Pretty sure no one is questioning the use of Comic Sans in professional settings. It's the informal settings we are interested in and we see a lot of people bashing it in informal settings. Clearly, a bandwagon.

It's unprofessional and was overused to the point of saturation in the days of geocities and angelfire pages, usually in cyan or yellow font on black background with blinking stars and a whole bunch of animated pictures trailing your mouse, plus an autoplay midi file of a song that if you were lucky you could find a pause button for at the very bottom of the page, but probably only after you got past the three JavaScript popup welcome messages. Or maybe that's just why I hate it.