@Drew P Draws: I agree with you, but it seems that they rather made it for everyday people that uses office instead of font lovers (like me) that´s why i guess the translations are so straightforward, but a really good video, although i would liked to see Helvetica and other more "professional" typos thrown over there...Love the characters BtW...

Daisuash

I just Charcoal'd my pants.

Good stuff.

Chromeo is typing this on his iPhone 3G

Comic Sans saves the day? Didn't see that coming.

I'm exactly the kind of person who you would expect to hate a particular font and never shut up about it. However, I have no feelings what so ever about Comic Sans. If there is a font I dislike it is Arial.

Bloodboiler

@Drew P Draws: I just don't know how many fonts that would work for and I'm pretty sure like 15 people would get it. "Oh, look, Courier New is acting nerdy and old because, as I'm sure you all recall, that is the font used by default in Notepad!"

Adam Frucci

What does Wingdins say at the end?

RetepNamenots

@Illuminatus: Awesome comeback. Didn't realize my critique of anything meant I had to make an equal or better one.

I'll be sure to follow you around so anytime you criticize anything ever I'll retort with "WHY DON'T YOU MAKE A BETTER ONE THEN!"

BonoMan

I will never use Arial Narrow again. Then again, I never did before. On the other hand, after this video, I am thinking of switching to Century Gothic.

Eric Tolle

Wingdings = FUNNY

But, overall I give this a 0.0 on the font joke scale. These were like the "who's who" of crappy fonts... except for futura (personal favorite). How can you talk about fonts without Helvetica!? At least have Helvetica at the back of the room smoking a cigarette, wearing a pair of torn fishnet pantyhose, and a wrinkled miniskirt.

If you use comic sans... stop.

DustyButt

@92FakeThomasJefferson: Shhhh.

Adam Frucci

Futura is a sexy lady from the future.

Fanboy.

92FakeThomasJefferson

Snowflake wavy lines big diamond squiggly little diamond big diamond square pencil

sansovino

open mailbox.

dedalus987

I'd translate wingdings, but I'm lazy.

rabiddachshund

@Drew P Draws: Don't you be dissin' college humor. Their original content has been pretty good this past year.

Illuminatus

I laughed my guts out.

Margatron

...and i rest my case, looks like everyone commented, nevermind!

devianaut

what the hell?! why hasn't anyone thought of this?! this is brilliant! minus the part about comic sans saving the day. if anything, he'd be the immature bad-guy that no one could like, haha.

devianaut

There's a miniscule chance that everybody will get this kind of humor.

DeadWriter

Holy effin shit, Wingdings was awesome.

Arial Narrow was pretty good too.

Log1c

@BonoMan: Why don't you step up and make one then, since you're brimming with ideas?

Illuminatus

@Drew P Draws: I was thinking the EXACT same thing.

atuck

Got to love geek humor =D

duuktoprock

@BonoMan: They don't call it College Humor for nothing!

Drew P Draws

That was great. But I hate the font Comic Sans with a passion. It's so bland but tries to be cutesy.

chrstphr

@Drew P Draws:

Agreed. It just made pun jokes on the names. There was so much there that could've been done, but unfortunately the ball was dropped :(.

BonoMan

I love the webdings guy. That is great.
Magnifyingglass boat circle square
fourpointstar information bus package
Golfpole package bicycle highway information circle square questionmark spider

isaacws

um....yea.....

CountryDevil

LAWL.

Skorpius

@klave7:

I hated it, and as time goes on, I hate it more. But for some reason I am compelled to try and design something with it.

It would be a challenge!

will

"You're insane! NOBODY uses Microsoft Works!"

-and I think we can ALL agree:

Mailbox, Open Mailbox.

strider_mt2k

Aaaaaweeesomeeee!

Eruanno

Not bad, but I think it would be funnier based on the actual typefaces rather than the names of the fonts.

You know, like Futura should be a 1930s German modernist, not some shiny chick from the future.

I am such a dork.

Drew P Draws

Futura is my favorite.

Late_Night

That. was. awesome.

Elliuotatar

Comic Sans has got to be one of the most overused and abused fonts ever. I used to love it, now I hate it.

klave7

@Sloth: I have to admit that I didn't actually understand your comment, but anyone who doesn't think over-acted french clichés are hilarious is suspect in my book.

*glares suspiciously*

92FakeThomasJefferson

Anyone else think century gothic is hot?

Metkis

@Sloth: Yeah dude, because jokes about kearning would be hilarious.

Adam Frucci

Pretty funny, but as others have said, there are so many places you could go with this... and I'd have liked to see Calibri (and his deputy, Cambria) as usurpers to the throne. :)

tophtucker

@Drew P Draws: Yeah you are.

mmr

I thought for sure that Comic Sans would be some annoying doofus with a spinning bowtie that would be openly mocked by everyone else before being thrown out of the room.

They also missed lots of opportunity to have Helvetica, Courier, and Times Roman face off against a trio of bad knockoffs in Microsoft t-shirts...

TickleMeElmo

Good concept, terrible execution. Why didn't they consult with someone who actually knew something about typography. No jokes about kearning? No Edwardian script? No Helvetica?

Also the acting was utterly terrible. I mean seriously that's the best french guy they could find? I almost stopped it right there. It's too bad, could have been a classic video, but instead it is a suck video.

Sloth

@klave7: Look around. Zapfino and Papyrus take the cake on overly used and cliche.

dwight-schrute

I was looking forward to hearing what Adlib BT had to say.

Sora57

pretty clever stuff. i thought making comic sans the superman character was hilarious. mostly because i think it's the most awful goddamn looking font ever created. and on an even dorkier note, i did find the absense of helvetica saddening. they could make it a bruce wayne/batman type. professional yet secretly badass :)

mailbox open mailbox.

soupcrusher

Comic sans? Ugh.....how about Helvetica saving the day. I can't believe they have a font conference without helvetica....sure you've got arial black and times new roman (all that you'd excpect from MS Word) but what about the classics....Adobe Jensen, Garamond....Wheres the serif's!?!?!?!

Jimbuck

Futura just made me bold

fudged71

they had a good DP at the shoot it looks great, and the idea is compelling but it's really bad acting and the story line goes nowhere.

j1234

Damn...lots of font geeks and into gadgets...

Who knew?

Chromeo is typing this on his iPhone 3G

Century Gothic, FTW.

Also, it's a really nice font.

michaelportent

@aznxenocide: Agreed. I thought that little bit with Ariel Black was the best part.

I also think that we should try to make Mailbox, open mailbox into a meme.

neuralien

@Adam Frucci: Uh they would be to anyone that was watching a SATIRICAL VIDEO ABOUT FONTS.

Should we dumb down everything into poop jokes and puns just because some people won't get it?

The whole thing was supposed to be about fonts, but it really wasn't at all.

Anyway it's like somebody took the "internet party" videos and instead of having each character be a caricature on the fanbase that makes up said website....they just made a joke about the name.

BonoMan

hahaha nice. Arial Black was priceless.

aznxenocide

@Metkis: Cute hoth chicks rules.

Funny video... some people juts have too much free time.

Edi_bOMB

@Metkis: She's one of my favourites!

Adolf

Terrible, except for windings.

Dr. Spaceman, Esq.

@klave7: I'm with ya but I think Brush is even worse.

Fuzi Lojak

@BonoMan: All I'm saying is that the ratio of people casually familiar with the names of fonts to people who are font nerds is probably 10,000:1. This video is aimed at the former group, not the latter.

Adam Frucci

@Edi_bOMB:

Cute hoth chicks rules.

Ain't that the truth:

92FakeThomasJefferson

Helvetica's a movie star now, he wouldn't lower himself to doing web videos. He was probably busy at a ribbon-cutting ceremony for some museum anyway. You know how he is.

bah

@92FakeThomasJefferson: Good show.

Luke

@tophtucker: You took the words right out of my mouth.

ericisshort

@Adam Frucci: Well what if one font was always sitting too close to another font: "will someone please kearn this man!" or "Didn't anyone teach you how to kearn" or " KEARN yo self fool!" ...Okay you win, kearning jokes aren't funny.

Sloth

@Sloth: "KEARN yo self fool!"... Love it.

Kaveh

" Get with the Times. New Roman!"
epic win

gymtonic

@BonoMan: "Should we dumb down everything into poop jokes and puns just because some people won't get it?"
Yup :-P

paul

@Metkis: Yup, she is hot. And windings was effing great...
id only wish comic sans wanst the hero... i hate comic sans...

Erzengel

@neuralien: Except it means "Please, something please." Because according to the subtitles from earlier, "mailbox" means "please." Roughly. I'm guessing the subtitles were inaccurate, largely because I'm guessing they were as lazy as the rest of the video, which, when it wasn't silly cliche and overacting, made no sense whatsoever. I mean, at the very least, Bookman Old Style should have been either Shakespearean or Chandler-esque, not an academic.

Videos like this are why I don't frequent College Humor.

willentrekin

I've gotta say CH's production values are going up

burningsensation

If they were going to pun the font names, they really should have made Arial Narrow and Arial Black mermaids.

jbrecken

@j1234: I think you meant to add this comment over at fleshbot

aktif8

@Metkis: Always have! It was the reason I watched the video!

ManekiNeko

^ "they had a good DP at the shoot..."

aktif8

No story where Comic Sans is the Hero is a story for me.

Garrison Dean, Mr. Privilege

@gymtonic: i agree, i'm pretty sure that i'm gonna use that as my come back for everything now

mariathephan

Mailbox, Open Mailbox!!! haha.

dashexpress

Ok, did anyone really think this was supposed to Palm d'Or or Sundance material? Lighten up, my dear geeks. It was funny prima facia - don't dig so deep into this one!

Yikes. Oh the humorlessness!

ps61318

century gothic was so hawt.
i'd open her mailbox, lol.

waynoworlater

That was great.. I loved Broadway. But I hate Comic Sans so much, it almost ruined this for me. Almost.

jhuang

No Hobo BT? Missed opportunity, man. Also, the dutchwest.tv group are great in the collegehumor videos.

Pablos102030

@Adam Frucci: I didn't say I thought it would have wider appeal, just that it would be funnier.

I mean, come on, how can Comic Sans, the worst font of all time, be the hero?

It's just not believable.

Drew P Draws

Hey I use Works!

Its open faster than OOo or Office.

OtakuboyT

Century Gothic is the girl (Amanda Ferri) from the Flagpole Sitta (Harvey Danger) office video.

[www.vimeo.com]

arkitect75

There were a lot of missed opportunities here...

Papyrus- some earthy airhead like hippie
Impact- Dude built like a football player who always yells

fallenturtle

if it were up to me, Comic Sans would be the bad guy and Akzidenz Grotesk would save the say. And why the hell wasn't Helvetica the King?

robot-shmobot