Comic Sans MS
What is it with Comic Sans MS that it is now appearing everywhere. It may be me, but I just can’t take something that is written in that font seriously. Even the name of the font shows that it is not meant for that. Yet today it appears on signs in shops, billboards, and I even saw an engraved “no bike parking”-sign yesterday *shudder*.
If you look at the font, it may look cute at first glance. But if you look closely you notice that it is a horrible font: ragtag shapes of letters, without serif (the small stroke at the ends of the main strokes, e.g. at the left and right of a ‘T’) and now that everybody uses it, it’s not that cute anymore.
There really ought to be some site promoting the proper use of fonts, educating the general public about what to look for in a font for a message on a billboard. I’m no expert, but I think that Comic Sans is about the antipode of what is optimal for a large sign.
Update: Of course there already is someone out there with a website against comic sans: BanComicSans.com and they have some disturbing projected usage statistics: all text will be in comic sans by 2027.