Is there such a thing as a sarcasm font?

iS tHeRe SuCh A tHiNg As A sArCaSm FoNt?

I suppose anything could work in the proper context. Sarcasm is an an art. I won't put anybody's creativity in a box by limiting it to one font.

I voted italicize because it's the one example provided.

Ah yes, a thread about sarcasm to address something that came up in another thread which happens to be about Giant Bomb hating Kingdom Hearts. Fitting.

Fuck Kindom Hearts. Notice the lack of italics.

Also, I voted no.

I don’t know. /is there/?

Italics are definitely the one and only sarcasm font and convey nothing else. /s

something something keyblade...

I hate the use of /s, it cheapens the joke. I just assume everyone is being sarcastic all the time on the internet.

@htr10: isnt the internet just a beautiful place

*shook*

I wonder how radical the opinions of the people who had to abstain of a such a heated debate of sarcasm font?

If there was, it would be italicize, but leaning the other way.

@49th: A world of Chandlers.

i sometimes use italics. it's really good for that. /s

Comic Sans.

Duke Nukum font...would only be used in sarcastically. Really any number of thick, chunky, embossed fonts with harsh angles; that is hard to read and annoying to look at; would be sarcastic.

You didn't make this thread because of my reply, did you? You can use italics or bold, but what I meant was that what I typed there was no need for italics; it also wouldn't have made much sense with any of the words I used in the way I said the sentence. It's possible that some may miss it, and some may get it. I did take somewhat of an issue with you correcting me when I felt there was no correction necessary, but I can also understand why what I said could have been taken as serious, and it's not entirely your fault that it didn't come off as sarcasm. That's also where the meme 'not sure if serious' comes from I think because it's not always clear when something someone typed is meant to be taken as sarcastic or not. I guess I could have put the /s at the end of it.

Edit - I didn't get your reply from the other thread: had to go to the thread to see that you replied. Seriously, you're right and wrong about the topic. I am not really here to get into a big argument (I was just surprised to see that a thread was even made about it), but I'll just say that I stand by what I said just in terms of what I wrote, but you can definitely use italics, aside other ways, as a way to 'sound' sarcastic with typing. That said, I wouldn't say using sarcasm is the main reason to use italics. There are a handful of ways to express sarcasm; you don't always have to use italics.

Of course, being sarcastic in text is sooooo easy.

Pointing out that what you are writing is sarcastic completely negates any rhetorical effect that it might have had, whether it's in the form of shit like "/s" or a font (what?). It means that you are either bad at writing and/or understanding sarcasm or you feel too insecure about whether your audience will understand that you're being sarcastic, in which case you should just skip the sarcasm altogether.

Yes but Giant Bomb won't let me post in Comic Sans.

Once more I get to start by saying - I happened to write my BA thesis six years ago with the title: "Sarcasm on the Internet: The implicit and explicit strategies used in text-based computer-mediated communication on message boards and comment sections".

From what I discovered at the time, the only typographically emphatic font style that was meant to explicitly convey sarcasm was, very much like @dodobasse mentioned, italicized but in reverse - that is, italics leaning to the left. Ironics and sartalics were two of the terms that came up. However, I haven't personally seen it adopted or better yet used anywhere within these past years. Then again using such reversed italics sarcastically could be a form of double negation to muddy the waters further. Miscommunication, or rather the potential for it and possible prevention of it sure can be interesting to me at times; aka 'this-dude-boring-af-yo'.

If you or anyone else is (actually/doubtfully) interested, a person named Keith Houston has written about ironic punctuation and such things.

No.

@hnke: Yeah, kind of? I mean, I don't like putting '/s' at the end of writing sarcasm, but it goes to show that it is sometimes needed (this thread was made).

this feels like a thread that belongs on wikihow /s

makes facial expressions

I told my coworker next to me, who was typing up a report to his manager, to address his boss with papyrus font.

I’m a monster

People have tried different things over the centuries. I'd say the current most popular is "/s"

@ntm: since we did have a wonderful connection on the thread your response means the worlds /s.

in all seriousness. its not that serious. I'm just curious and i get off track. what place to ask a random question than the internet. as we all can see we have a beautiful melting pot of sarcastic people here

edit: you also bring up a great point in the notifications for the forum could be a lot better.

@hnke:tbh that view kind of seems pretentious. most of the conveying of sarcasm is through body language or inflection which you have neither on the internet. just having someone not get that you are sarcastic just see and saying youre too stupid to get it seems a little pretentious to me

@malibuprofen: how does one even reverse italicize

Clearly we need a better option.

But for real, I usually speak with other native English speakers and so it comes across naturally more often than not.

Sarcasm is denoted in green text, if you can not use green text then sarcasm is against the policy of the website.

*insert spongebob meme here*

Of course not

Not a font but stupid nonetheless.

https://www.sarcmark.com

The /s is there for people that don't get sarcasm, so they don't @ you without requiring you to tell them not to @ you. /s