Comic Sans

They'd never let me use a font other than Tahoma or Times New Roman in a paper. I'd fail the paperif I did, I feel you Felix.

It's specifically outlined on all assignment handouts here that we must use Times New Roman, size 12 font, with 1.5 or double line spacing. I don't know the consequences, because I am too scared NOT to comply.

My favourite font is Courier New but I wouldn't write anything for school with it. Unless it were programming. Actually, I'd use Lucida Console for programming.

Courier New sux.

Century Gothic FTW.

Damn wheres Cloister Black on this???

 Secret tip for the crafty students who enjoy cutting corners

[SPOILER=I'm serious, don't go spreading this around now, folks. This beauty works with almost 100% certainity]
[SPOILER=It'll really help when you're in need of a boost in length, without having to change the font]

 The longer your paper is, the better it works usually

Using Word, Find All + Highlight (this is important) every period (".") in your paper. With all periods selected, increase their size slightly (12.5-13).

Repeat for all punctuation marks, such as commas and apostrophes.

Try it out. It's like magic.

Only way I've ever seen this method detected was if the teacher knows specifically to look for it. Or if they have REALLY sharp eyes. Personally, I've never been discovered, nor have the few people I've shared it with. It's always risky being a cheat, but that's the fun of it.

OLD TRICK IS OLD.
I start using that in like 8th grade.

Smart people use this nifty website called File Destructor 2.0. Nowadays, all my professors send ask me to send them my essays via e-mail, because they're too damn lazy to collect paper. Pop in this baby, and you'll have a corrupt .doc that'll give you a few extra days to finish the assignment.

What kind of terrible professor/teacher allows any font other than Times New Roman on their papers? There's much better, more crafty ways of increasing length if you're desperate anyway.

Having a certain amount of words is the way to do it. One of my English professors enforced a strict word limit. If you were even ONE word short of it, you would get a failing grade on the paper. <3

Have seen my passive voice writing?

Next time you write a paper.
Finish it.
Change font from TNR or Ariel to COMIC SANS
and watch the magic.

Verdana (the default font on VBulletin, for most) is wider than Comic Sans. And it looks more legit too.

Okay, now you guys have made me curious. Throughout high school and now college, all of my teachers and professors have forbidden any font other than Times New Roman on papers. I grew up with this, I learned to like this and it's surprising others allow "stylized" fonts and especially colors. To me that's like they don't take their papers seriously, or they like their students focusing on things other than content alone. Frankly, I would just hate having to grade stupid fonts and colors.

How many of you were allowed to write papers in different fonts and colors?

When I'm a teacher, I'm definitely enforcing the "Times New Roman, Black, 12 pt, double-spaced and MLA format" rule that I've always had to follow. That's just the way it should be for academic papers.

I've always had to use MLA, at least in English class. And I suppose AP History.

And just for font discussion sake, my favorite is Arial.

http://www.ms-studio.com/articles.html

My favourite font is Courier New but I wouldn't write anything for school with it. Unless it were programming. Actually, I'd use Lucida Console for programming.

Yeah Lucida Console. Screw Courier.

I did all of my work in Tahoma and only ever got compliments because it's SO MUCH NICER than Times New Roman and... everything else. I do remember one kid always making his fonts coloured. And printing them out. In colour.

I hate Comic Sans so much. It's so overused, and it makes me sick to see invoices at work in Comic Sans font.

I prefer to use Arial, but the profs ask for Times New Roman for papers.

Some coloured font is hard to read for me, so I only use it for MSN.

Testing - Verdana
Testing - TNR
Testing - Arial
Testing - Tahoma

Meh, my favorite is always gonna be MS Gothic.

OLD TRICK IS OLD.
I start using that in like 8th grade.

Smart people use this nifty website called File Destructor 2.0. Nowadays, all my professors send ask me to send them my essays via e-mail, because they're too damn lazy to collect paper. Pop in this baby, and you'll have a corrupt .doc that'll give you a few extra days to finish the assignment.

I love you.
You just increased my gaming efficency

Death to Comic Sans
Long Live Comic Sans MS