This is a brief excerpt from PetaPixel
Benedict XVI officially resigned yesterday after eight years as the Pope of the Catholic Church. The Vatican decided to commemorate his papacy by publishing a digital photo album to its website. It’s a serious set of photos that marks a series occasion, but it’s attracting attention for the wrong reason. Most sites that are reporting on it seem to be focusing on the font selections.
The text in the album is Comic Sans, and the watermarks on the photos are Papyrus.
The 62-page album is loaded with photographs from the Holy See’s newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano. Each page features a photograph of Benedict XVI engaged in duties of his position, from sanding before crowds of people to visiting foreign lands.
Alongside the photographs are short quotes from his sermons and writings — quotes that are displayed in the much-mocked and widely-reviled Comic Sans font.The Verge writes that it’s “a font typically associated with children’s birthday party invitations rather than papal resignations or God Particle pursuits.”
Mashable writes,Comic Sans, popular during the mid-1990s, has been sworn off by most web designers as a childish and inappropriate font for most purposes. Regardless of your feelings …
By: Michael Zhang
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