LMFTFY.

I was originally going to post that before I felt that some kids might want to use it for artwork, and then thought some businesses might want to use it for advertising/signwriting.

Well tough.
It's rubbish.
Pick another font.
There's thousands of the buggers.

Comic Sans actually has a nice background story. It was never really meant to be used outside the classroom...

It should never be used IN the classroom.


http://kottke.org/11/01/comic-sans-will ... ou-smarter

Oh, crap.

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As long as your boss didn't do anything stupid, you should just be able to go into the formatting and styles window and change everything at once. However most users are idiots and don't use styles, if that's the case you'll have to go and do it all manually...Or build from the ground up.



If you use standard fonts you should be OK. It's probably best that everything is the same though, rather than some slides being in Helvetica and others being in Ariel. At least if they are all the same and none are available they should all fall back to the same font...

He basically made them as "tiles" or pictures. Hence when you resize them up, the writing loses a little definition. More importantly, he can't spell and there are issues around some of the sentences. I then took these images and imported them into powerpoint. They work fine but I want to go one better.

Which was always one of my biggest problems with Apple. My eyes are very sensitive to unfocused things. I don't know why, but I can't look at photos that are out of focus or badly focused films in the cinema, for example, and that makes looking at the screen on OS X very tiring, because my left eye is fighting to focus the bluriness that OS X generates. I'd prefer they make it look as good as it can on the screen, as opposed to making it as faithful to paper output ideal as possible - 99% of the time, it isn't going to paper.


Yep, but that is much easier on the eyes. For a typographer, working on a DTP project, I can see the Apple method being more important. For somebody who has to spend all day reading text on-screen, the Microsoft way is better.


I never implied that Helevtica was poorly designed, I just said that Arial was designed from the outset to work well on a screen.

I love Helvetica as a printed font.