Simply Jonathan

This is Simply Jonathan, online writing habitat for Jonathan Holst. In here, you may find content divided into three main categories: links, notes and essays. The links are to external content of interest; the notes are small thoughts and ponderings; the essays are longer, more thought-through entries, often debating a subject thoroughly. Read more about Jonathan and this site.

Comic Sans and the Future

1 November 2007, 4:37 PM CET +0100

I’m afraid that when people in the future are going to depict type from our time, they will use Comic Sans. Consider this: Comic Sans is awfully popular, and the important thing for typography in a movie isn’t to be pretty, but to be authentic.

I hope this won’t be the case, but I’m scared.