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

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

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

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

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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.

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.

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 😭

This is an insult to Comic Sans

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

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.

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

This fucking shite

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

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

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.

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.

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?

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.

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

This ! This is the exception for the rule : never slop

Slop font is way worse than Comic Sans.

It isn't really a specific font, just something AI models made to generate images have picked up on. Things that were immediately attention grabbing and bold probably got more positive scoring and reinforcement during training, so they learned to use larger more dramatic styles (this is also why you often see sort of electric or fiery glows, sparks, dramatic lighting, etc) but that doesn't really work to help a business stand out when all of them now look like that.

I'm also not sure if everyone knows this yet, but most AI image generators nowadays are split into two parts. It used to be that you'd need a prompt like poster, graphic, promotional, large text, dramatic, brushstroke font, on sign, city background, club background, microphone, This Font is the New Comic Sans bold text, high quality, but since most people do this shit through something like ChatGPT, and might just say "make me a poster that says 'This Font is the New Comic Sans'", in the background, an LLM takes that prompt and makes a more extended prompt for the image generator.

This is where a lot of this type of thing probably takes place. For example, I prompted an AI model with Convert this prompt: "Make me a poster for my nightclub" into a Stable Diffusion prompt for a poster, and it gave me: nightclub event poster, bold neon typography, vibrant magenta and electric blue lighting, silhouetted dancers in motion, smoke and laser beams, glowing geometric shapes, dark moody background, high contrast, synthwave aesthetic, centered composition, space reserved for event title and date, ultra detailed, sharp focus, professional graphic design, 8k (emphasis added by me)

Nightclub posters do sometimes have these elements, but a lot of them actually use clean typography, little to no neon inside the typography, it just made up synthwave as a relevant aesthetic to the club it knows nothing about, and simultaneously wants a dark and moody background... with something that has high contrast, neon lights, lasers, and lighting everywhere.

Both image generators and LLMs optimize for things that are bold and for excessive additions like you saw in the prompt earlier, which leads to the super sloppy, over the top, crowded designs you see on most AI posters.

Wrestling-Sans

What I come to call the "300" typeface because it's what all AI slop posters are like now. They're more or less based on "Edo SZ" which has seen very frequent use.

Is this Comic Sans Italic?

To play devils advocate, I reopened Canva for the first time in forever.

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)