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National Comic Sans day October 1

Posted on | September 18, 2009 | 6 Comments

6a00d834515beb69e200e54f2004b38834-800wiSo we have CSS Naked day (apr 9), and talk like a pirate day (Sept 19) and even Zombie Crawl day (Props to Danny!) and just to show that we need to not take ourselves so seriously all the time, I’m starting national Comic Sans day.

Yup, damn straight, National. Comic. Sans. Day.

Why? Because we really do take ourselves too seriously. Just look at this google search. Sure we all have our ‘thing’ but something in those results tells me, that there’s a lot of us that take fonts too seriously. Feel free to try and explain why font face is the single most important thing in marketing and delivers a message without actually saying anything etc, etc, Sorry it’s marketing claptrap, but you’re welcome to try and enlighten me.

Solution? As with any situation where people are taking something too seriously, we’ll go extreme opposite, and just bask in it, and enjoy making fun of ourselves. It’s simple enough to do, simply replace your style sheet font references to all Comic Sans.

It’s one day, and meant to be a fun poke at our selves and take a day off of obsessing over the existance of Comic Sans as a font. Hate it, love it, couldn’t care less about it, on October 1 let’s all enjoy a day of Comic Sans, just a day, it’s not gonna kill ya.

Spread the word! Leave a comment with your blog address so I can make sure to check your site out and enjoy a day not caring if there’s a serif or not.

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6 Responses to “National Comic Sans day October 1”

  1. Tweets that mention National Comic Sans day October 1 | johnwilker.com -- Topsy.com
    September 18th, 2009 @ 9:49 am

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  2. Just having some fun. National Comic Sans day. | Visualrinse | Design and Development by Chad Udell
    October 1st, 2009 @ 8:33 am

    [...] about it on John Wilker’s blog. Posted on October 1, [...]

  3. Chad
    October 1st, 2009 @ 2:33 pm

    I've joined in at visualrinse.com

  4. Randy Troppmann » Happy inter-national Comic Sans day!
    October 1st, 2009 @ 1:55 pm

    [...] Sans gets a rough ride. Let’s face it. I am joining the chorus of John Wilker’s post to say yes! I agree! I think though that this makes it now an international day since my blog [...]

  5. Randy Troppmann
    October 1st, 2009 @ 7:56 pm

    I am in at http://www.randytroppmann.com/

    Couldn't agree more JW

  6. r u p e r t a d l m a i e r . c o m
    March 22nd, 2010 @ 10:37 am

    [...] and celebrate the “National Comic Sans Day” on 1st October!Check out how it works: National Comic Sans Day I just hope I dont forget it ;) Leave a Comment! (none [...]

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