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1. Comic Sans
by Sam and Anita
1 year ago
A short documentary about the font Comic Sans. Created for a video production course and inspired by the film "Helvetica" by Gary Hustwit.

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  • Brian Van Peski plus 1 year ago
    Awesome work! Interesting piece and well done.
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  • Ahmed Eid 1 year ago
    that was interesting as hell...

    good job...
    I didnt think I ever could watch a full documentary about a font...lol
  • Marcelo Pereira 8 months ago
    Try the "Helvetica" doc.
  • sasha 2 months ago
    seen it :)
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  • lauterhaus 1 year ago
    this is great! helvetica was such a serious documentary about a very serious typeface. comic sans is just silly, and i think your documentary expresses its contentious nature in a fun way.
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  • Gilberto Prujansky 9 months ago
    ...and Vincent is damn right ;-)
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  • lanux 9 months ago
    CS deserves its place in typography - comics. Beautiful!
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  • I Buried Paul 9 months ago
    awesome job!
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  • Mell Passi 9 months ago
    great!
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  • Plastictaxicab 8 months ago
    He totally ripped off Beatrice Warde without giving her credit.
  • Scott Beamer 7 months ago
    Perhaps (just like me) he never heard of her...
  • Sam and Anita 7 months ago
    He actually did give her credit! Unfortunately his answer was a bit long-winded and we made the decision to cut out his explanation of where the analogy came from. We never thought this video would be so popular with design buffs--we probably should have left it in! Thanks for pointing it out.
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  • Dave Lanphear 7 months ago
    Serendipitously, dove-tailed perfectly into a conversation about type going on right now at LinkedIn; I've embedded this documentary, and the LinkedIn discussion at artmonkeys.tumblr.com/
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  • Adam Leung 7 months ago
    Congrats on feature on Life Hacker!
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  • Adam Leung 7 months ago
    Still though, i use Myriad pro. :)
  • Jeff Scott 1 month ago
    Ahhhh, Myriad Pro. It is indeed the best!
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  • MeSuAx 7 months ago
    great clip.
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  • Rick Pawela 7 months ago
    Like a clear crystal goblet that holds wine?? that's hilarious. When's the doc on Apple Chancery coming out?
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  • John Caserta 7 months ago
    Nice little piece. Quite journalistic. What do you think of Hobo? A group of us in Providence has been soliciting and collecting photographs of Hobo for an upcoming publication marking its 100th anniversary. Folks here may enjoy the images and may want to contribute... hobo2010.com
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  • brian mcdermott 7 months ago
    all that needs to happen now is a documentary on "Mistral" and i'm golden!
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  • Christopher Veach 6 months ago
    People use comic sans because it looks informal and not as serious as other fonts. Hating a font is kind of stupid. Although that Hobo font is really ugly.
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  • Isaac Viel plus 6 months ago
    Now do a video on Papyrus.
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  • LifeInABox Productions 6 months ago
    Awesome! You got "Sugar Heaven" shut down from all the bad press, now where will I buy comically huge lollipops in Boston. Ha.
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  • Sean Berger 6 months ago
    The content & dialogue for this was really well done.
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  • Alejandro Serrano Duran 5 months ago
    Hi!

    I don't know if someone think or said this before, but actually the logos of famous brands with the Comic Sans typho, could be a great idea for a group on Flickr or a Web site of user posting his Comic Sans version.

    Here is when i said "why this doesn't occur to me"!

    Great video!
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  • Victoria Reyes 5 months ago
    I really like this documentary!
    I want to share it with my study companions but, I'm from Argentina and not all of them understand english.
    I'm new in Vimeo, is there some way to download the video to add some spanish subtitles?
    Congratulations!
    Vic.
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  • Navarro Parker 5 months ago
    Great stuff! Watch your plosives, tho'

    What's all these "CAS '10" supers?
  • Sam and Anita 5 months ago
    Since the video was made for a class project, we provided the students' specific school within the University (College of Arts & Sciences) as well as their year of graduation.
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  • Hak en Haai 5 months ago
    A very very good documentary on a type face!
    Now Verdana?
    or Wingdings ? which is written in Wn
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  • Kurt Lorenz plus 5 months ago
    I hate TNR way more than CS, and I never actually use either one. Well, almost never. I think...

    Nice job on the video.
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  • Martijn van Dueren den Hollander 5 months ago
    I like this vid :-p but i dont hate the font, I more laugh about it every time I see it used by an inappropiate company, and shake my head over their ignorance :-p
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  • Matt P. 4 months ago
    Great documentary! Not too "anti-comic sans" while making a good point about typography.
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  • Marcelo Noah 2 months ago
    Hahahahauahsau, make 'em roar, make 'em scream... make 'em laugh w/ comic sans!
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  • UltraNormal 2 months ago
    Bravo.
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  • Tom Fauls 1 month ago
    Regarding the "crystal goblet" reference, when I saw the final edit, I knew some well-informed folks would feel I ripped Beatrice Warde off. Thanks to Sam and Anita for setting the record straight: that I did, indeed, credit her, though perhaps in a too long-winded way, which caused it to be edited out.
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  • Skinny B 22 days ago
    About a month ago I had an idea to recreate logos using Comic Sans as a bit of fun. A bit of prior research led me to this movie - so my idea is far from original.

    So for interest and in reply to Alejandro you can start to see what our branded world would look like if we only had comic sans.

    comicbrands.blogspot.com
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  • Gaschka 13 days ago
    cool idea, well done, this was fun to watch. makes me wanna design somethung where comic sans IS appropriate!
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  • Bruno Tozzini 5 days ago
    congrats! well done!!
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