Comics sans appropriate font

The other day, I praised the Easton Press edition of A Peanuts Valentine, noting that the cover of the fancy edition looked better than the standard edition, but that that wasn’t always the case for their books. Today, I noticed this example of the lesser work:

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While A Peanuts Valentine has a logo in a font based on Schulz’s own lettering, The Many Faces of Snoopy used Comics Sans, the dreaded faux comics font. It’s blatantly not Schulz, and it’s ugly and awkward; the font’s bad native kerning makes it look like THE MANY F ACES OF SNOOPY. And while I approve of putting Schulz’s signature on the cover, might they have found a more graceful example? I’m not saying that the paperback version is the best looking Peanuts book of all time, but it’s better than this.

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