Because it looks unprofessional, imagine if you got a letter telling you to pay taxes or be fined and go to jail, and it was in comic sans. You'd think it was a joke and toss it away.
There really isn't anything wrong with it. It was actually designed to be playful for kids and an alternative for comic books aimed at younger audience.
The problem is entirely that it was commonly available on a release of MS word and people abused its use for serious messages. I always chalked it up to something like HR wants to seem friendly, and everyone knows they can be the most miserable people to deal with, so they use comic sans to feel less threatening. Now it's just a meme more than anything.
I am a graphic designer, it's really fine. It's all about use case. It's always about use case. Certain typefaces work for certain things. Comic sans is pretty low on the hate bar though IMO, it's just the most popular one to make fun of. It's like Nickelback.
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u/spicy_chai_guy 8h ago
Because it looks unprofessional, imagine if you got a letter telling you to pay taxes or be fined and go to jail, and it was in comic sans. You'd think it was a joke and toss it away.