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I don’t even know what it’s called, but I really hope it goes the way of Comic Sans
Edit: does anyone actually know what this awful font is called?
I've been absolutely shocked walking through city centers and seeing these fucking AI flyers everywhere. Boycot whoever uses this shit and pay your local artists and graphic designers.
this is an insult to comic sans; that ai font is way worse than it
The essential qualities of a good typeface balance visual beauty with practical function. This is just plain ugly and makes Comic sans look elegant. Using this crud is as acceptable as attending a funeral dressed as a clown.
Meanwhile I was using a similar font on a lot of designs the last 20 years, and now it was basically stolen and can't be used anymore 😭
A few of the half decent, small YouTube channels I follow started using it in their thumbnails as a way to polish up their channel. Little do they know is all it does is suck the soul out of their content.
I have developed a rule for myself. If I see a channel using genAI in their thumbnails, it goes on the do not recommend this channel again list.
Is it actually a font? No same letter looks the same - look at every 'S' for example, they all differ. Very similar but not the same. Maybe its just slop?
A YouTuber I used to adore has gone to this shitty ai thumbnail format in recent months, so I've stopped clicking on him 😞
I got fed up with that thumbnail font/format a couple of weeks ago and just started blocking every channel that was using it. I didn't expect it to help much, but it has.
To play devils advocate, I reopened Canva for the first time in forever.
Anti Canva rant
(Any service that could be free/no account, but wants an account is immediate red flag in my book. No one NEEDS an account to make a slideshow or poster. Plus I'm on the haveibeenpwned list of the 2019 data leak. But we 1 week away from the school Christmas concert, and the people in charge insist, )
But when I opened the website, there isn't a clear warning to say "hey, this font or image pack is AI" you have to read the fine print to know for sure.
Canva itself advertises "hey, use our AI helper", but for the 3rd party features? Up to the uploaded to say if its AI or not. (Still hate Canva though. Can't wait for the concert so I can never open the website again)
Why is it that all AI fliers look like this though?
Because they made that the default look for flyers somehow
Wrestling-Sans
This is an insult to comic sans. Comic sans is a good font and helpful to people with dyslexia
Comic sans (originally designed for a comic dog character) is an awful typeface. It is constantly misused in serious settings such business contracts, medical notices, and legal documents. In the UK many schools use it. It is as appropriate as wearing a clown costume to a funeral.
Using it makes any professional design look childish, sloppy, or amateurish
There is very little peer-reviewed scientific evidence that Comic Sans inherently improves reading performance for students with dyslexia.
It is? I’ve seen a couple fonts meant to combat dyslexia and they look very different from comic sans
To my knowledge Comic Sans predates all of the dyslexia specific fonts. It's liked in the dyslexia space because all of the letter forms are quite distinct and therefore easily differentiable.
Fascist tech-bro slop font? Just in case it doesn't have a name I'd like to throw this in the ring.
This is an insult to Comic Sans
Yeah, Comic Sans is actually useful.
Yes! It feels like every second restaurant in my area has suddenly gone with this font and AI slop images for their menus. Lets call it Tragic Sans or something like that.
I see that, I go elsewhere.
Tragic Sans is pretty great. Also saw Toxic Sans somewhere and really like it.
I was JUST thinking about how I see this on a bunch of ai slop and slop adjacent stuff recently!
It's weird be cause you would think that whoever makes these should have the common sense to see if it's a bit too obvious or too typical. You can use just about any font in existence in AI by just telling it to use that font, but lazy ass people choose the crypto chud font.
You’re telling me they could be generating posters with Papyrus, Joker, or Wingdings font, and don’t?
Missed opportunities
It's an absolutely insane test of my faith in humanity. It just takes like 10 more words to get AI to make a sign that's at least a little different from the slop. But they won't even do that. It's like they're spitting in their own face with the disrespect they show to their own businesses or whatever they're advertising. It's nuts.
What I come to call the "300" typeface because it's what all AI slop posters are like now. They're more or less based on "Edo SZ" which has seen very frequent use.
I first took a note about it in Like a Dragon\Yakuza games, where it's used for title script of chapters, tasks, encounters with enemies. They got trendy for a while after starting to rerelease on many platforms including PC.
Like a Dragon\Yakuza games
Now that I've seen the screenshots, that's very plausible as to where such styling came from.
At least comic sans is easy on the eyes. easy to read.
You might need new glasses.
That is literally one of comic sans upside. Its objectively speaking easy to read. Its one of the better fonts for people with dyslexia and reading difficulties.
People hate on it because memes and ignorance. Also the absolute over use making people sick of it. But those are subjective things.
Octoberfest this year had a lot of stands, all with the same AI slop posters. I bought a burger from a stand with just a handwritten sign. Felt good.
What gets me is they're all the same style. Do they not see that their posters are the same as everyone else's??
You have far too much faith in taste.
Anyone competent enough to understand that effort is a vital component of modern marketing is already steering clear of AI slop nonsense. It's the stupids that are left believing that doing something as cheaply and easily as possible won't reflect poorly on their business.
and good lord there's a lot of stupid people out there.
This fucking shite
What on the fucking love of God is eBay live? Do we not even pretend anymore that's content and go straight to TV selling channels?
Tiktokification. Every app has a reels clone, because that shit is addicting and works at keeping people engaged.
It isn't really a specific font, just something AI models made to generate images have picked up on. Things that were immediately attention grabbing and bold probably got more positive scoring and reinforcement during training, so they learned to use larger more dramatic styles (this is also why you often see sort of electric or fiery glows, sparks, dramatic lighting, etc) but that doesn't really work to help a business stand out when all of them now look like that.
I'm also not sure if everyone knows this yet, but most AI image generators nowadays are split into two parts. It used to be that you'd need a prompt like poster, graphic, promotional, large text, dramatic, brushstroke font, on sign, city background, club background, microphone, This Font is the New Comic Sans bold text, high quality, but since most people do this shit through something like ChatGPT, and might just say "make me a poster that says 'This Font is the New Comic Sans'", in the background, an LLM takes that prompt and makes a more extended prompt for the image generator.
This is where a lot of this type of thing probably takes place. For example, I prompted an AI model with Convert this prompt: "Make me a poster for my nightclub" into a Stable Diffusion prompt for a poster, and it gave me: nightclub event poster, bold neon typography, vibrant magenta and electric blue lighting, silhouetted dancers in motion, smoke and laser beams, glowing geometric shapes, dark moody background, high contrast, synthwave aesthetic, centered composition, space reserved for event title and date, ultra detailed, sharp focus, professional graphic design, 8k (emphasis added by me)
Nightclub posters do sometimes have these elements, but a lot of them actually use clean typography, little to no neon inside the typography, it just made up synthwave as a relevant aesthetic to the club it knows nothing about, and simultaneously wants a dark and moody background... with something that has high contrast, neon lights, lasers, and lighting everywhere.
Both image generators and LLMs optimize for things that are bold and for excessive additions like you saw in the prompt earlier, which leads to the super sloppy, over the top, crowded designs you see on most AI posters.
The LLM / image gen AI centipede.
I personally didn't think Comic Sans was bad, just overused, especially in contexts where it didn't belong. (Funeral homes should have been banned from using it by industry regulation. They never did that. Anywhere in the world. This is why we need multinational legislation.)
This font, whatever the hell it is called, besmirches the good name of hand lettered sign painting and advertising that was common in advertising before computer typography. Have you seen old hand lettered ads? Unless they were in great hurry, they never left brush edges visible to this extent. It looked sloppy.
It's especially important to understand that in the early days of computing you only had a single system font or a tiny font pack of less than 10. Microsoft used a tiny pack that had Arial as their sans-serif, Times New Roman as their serif, Courier New as their monospace, and two symbol fonts. Of the three real fonts, two were incredibly computery, leaving Times New Roman as the friendliest font available.
Microsoft then set out to make a family-friendly cartoon-themed OS and set the entire OS in TNR. One of their designers took issue with it and designed Comic Sans to be a viable OS font that felt friendly and suited comic art. He was a bit late in starting, so it shipped with TNR and immediately failed, but Comic Sans ended up shipping with some versions of 95, then became a default font in Internet Explorer and Win98. As a result, it was the only friendly font on the average computer for ages.
Slop font is way worse than Comic Sans.