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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?

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It's either this shit or the fucking humanoid robot in every tech related post touching a holo screen showing completely pointless and unrelated data

Humanoid robot touching a hologram screen

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 6 points 4 hours ago

I dislike the font, but I REALLY fucking hate what they're doing with food. It's like they're all using the same horrible model that has never seen hashbrowns and BBQ sauce. You ask midjounrey for a steak, it makes you a convincing steak. It's like every restaurant in every country is set on tryptophobic food

[–] sunbytes@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

You're absolutely right to push bwck on this, it is a dogshit slop-font.

What else can i help you with today?

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 hours ago

Is this Comic Sans Italic?

[–] YragNitram1956@feddit.uk 19 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

I know multiple people that would want clowns at their funerals

[–] thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 44 points 11 hours ago

this is an insult to comic sans; that ai font is way worse than it

[–] yxc999@lemmy.ml 23 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I am in Japan right now and they were selling postcards with AI images. Not even art made by humans...

[–] yxc999@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 hours ago

I've seen that in a city I visited, three seperate shops with those and people were still there browsing

[–] kossa@feddit.org 14 points 10 hours ago

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 😭

[–] nullspace@lemmy.world 13 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] helican@feddit.org 9 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] 3laws@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

Me with anything LTT

[–] CalypsoGirl@lemmy.today 16 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

A YouTuber I used to adore has gone to this shitty ai thumbnail format in recent months, so I've stopped clicking on him 😞

[–] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 7 points 10 hours ago

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.

[–] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 6 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

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?

[–] TheFailedNinja@aussie.zone 4 points 9 hours ago

There is a real font called road rage

[–] chilicheeselies@lemmy.world 16 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Why is it that all AI fliers look like this though?

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 8 points 13 hours ago

Because they made that the default look for flyers somehow

[–] AutumnalAdjacent@piefed.social 50 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

This is an insult to Comic Sans

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 13 points 15 hours ago

Yeah, Comic Sans is actually useful.

[–] Seralth@piefed.seralth.com 20 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

This is an insult to comic sans. Comic sans is a good font and helpful to people with dyslexia

[–] YragNitram1956@feddit.uk 5 points 9 hours ago

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.

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[–] Leviathan@fedinsfw.app 18 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Fascist tech-bro slop font? Just in case it doesn't have a name I'd like to throw this in the ring.

[–] poolcritter@pawb.social 6 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Leviathan@fedinsfw.app 1 points 2 hours ago
[–] MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

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)

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

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.

This is what a noise me on a lot of 3D asset websites as well. On steam you are supposed to declare if your game includes any AI generated assets and since there is pretty good evidence that that affects purchase numbers, I don't want to include any. Trouble is, you don't always know where everything is coming from.

Most people probably wouldn't care if some background rock was made by AI rather than the human artist, but it still technically breaking the rules, and I suspect that if someone were maliciously inclined they could really make a big thing of it.

[–] NovaVeles@lemmy.world 23 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] HostilePasta@lemmy.ml 11 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Tragic Sans is pretty great. Also saw Toxic Sans somewhere and really like it.

[–] acchariya@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

Clanker sans

[–] ElAndvari@lemmy.world 6 points 13 hours ago

Wrestling-Sans

[–] CalypsoGirl@lemmy.today 3 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)
[–] NathanRanch@lemmy.zip 183 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] jobbies@lemmy.zip 67 points 23 hours ago (5 children)

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.

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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 18 points 17 hours ago

I was JUST thinking about how I see this on a bunch of ai slop and slop adjacent stuff recently!

[–] dog@reddthat.com 119 points 23 hours ago (10 children)
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[–] iuseasahibtw@ani.social 23 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

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.

Effort? From slop consumers/peddlers?

You'll have better luck finding ice in the Sahara.

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[–] umbraroze@piefed.social 46 points 22 hours ago (5 children)

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.

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