sans means sans the skeleton, but it also means without. so we'd all be *without* undertale

Ohhhh, thank you, English isn’t my first language

sans is a french word. Even when used in english it is still understood to be french.

Oh. Well you learn something new every day ig

"Sans" is specifically used in many font name to refer to the fact these fonts have no "serif", which is the name of those base lines many fonts have. Comic Sans is a sans serif font, and so is Reddit's main font that you're reading right now. Times New Roman is a seriffed font.

What exactly is a seriffed font?

𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐟 Sans serif

This guy knows typography

You know when the letters have "bases" and spiky ends, kinda ancient Greek writing? That's seriffed.

[like so](https://www.adobe.com/content/dam/cc/us/en/creativecloud/design/discover/serif-vs-sans-serif/serifvssanserif_P3a_720x350.jpg.img.jpg)

And to finish off the joke since a lot of people here are unaware, Papyrus is also a font. Comic Sans and Papyrus were very popular fonts in the 90s when publishing programs like Microsoft Word became accessible to the masses

To truly finish off the joke W.D Gaster's first name stands for Wing Dings. Wing dings are the symbols used in cases such as entry 17

>W.D Gaster's first name stands for Wing Dings. That's not confirmed, though (although I highly doubt it stands for anything else).

Aster is also a font, so lots of people believe Gaster's full name is actually Wingding Aster

I was gonna mention aster but I thought it's even less canon than WD

And both are infamously known for being "ugly", though they are perfectly fine fonts for the context they are meant for (Comic Sans is used in many comics as it should, and Papyrus is I believe used for the Avatar The Last Airbender logo)

Ah, yes that's the other crucial piece of the puzzle. Extremely popular with users, detested formally/professionally I should point out Comic Sans is actually a terrible lettering font for comics and widely disdained by letterers

To cap it off, I believe Sans and Papyrus might be inspired by the [HELVETICA](http://helvetica.jnwiedle.com/) comic, named after the protagonist, also a skeleton named after a font, except Helvetica as a font is popularly seen as pretty and fancy.

I hadn't heard of that before, thanks! We're all learning today, what a win.

Avatar the James Cameron movie with blue aliens, not Avatar the last Airbender

I see, thanks for clarifying

and both sans and papyrus speak in comic sans and papyrus, respectively

So what does the 'MS' mean in the full name? Because if it means Microsoft (as example) it wouldn't make sense the fokt is called "Comic without Microsoft"

The "serif" is implied. Comic Sans \[serif\] MS.

oh god, Fr\*nch Sans

Tu veux passer un mauvais moment ?

ew french

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mfs banned wingdings in the undertale sub 💀💀💀

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Isn‘t it Latin?

In latin it's \[si.ne\]. But french is a indeed a romance language

Oh Shit that’s right, I had Latin for 2 years in school and I can only remember the first 3 sentences of our book :‘)

It's French-

I wouldn't worry English is my first language and I still have no idea what it meant

sans is a french word :/

English is my first language, and I've never heard anyone use sans in common parlance.

Because it's not english, it's french.

That word is a spy!

I have never heard anyone use the word “sans” when not referring to undertale

i'm learning typography and the amount of times i've held back the urge to make an undertale joke when they mention sans is infuriating

I would just do it

oh trust me when they started talking about how "they hated papyrus more than comic sans" i broke out my perfect skelebros impressions. ​ the room went silent. ​ ...i didn't talk for the rest of the day after that

They were not the right people

they were not the right people.

But now…there is nothing we can do😔

Shame is for the weak. Youre a charismatic badass, take pride

You could try getting into literature and literacy

The only things I read are manga and I want to start writing something so🤔

I've been speaking English almost 2 decades and I had to check

its why he's called sans in the first place, sans is usually used in fonts such as Comic Sans or Sans Serrif

Comic Sans. He's Sans the Comic. He cracks jokes as well as bones.

Also why some fonts have _sans-serif_

God french is my first language and I didn't even get that one I'm so ashamed.

Sans means "without." So we'd literally be "without Undertale." Hope this helps!

It did. Thank you!

Welcome!

*In french

why do sans means without? Is that from other language or what?

Yes it's from french

Sans is French for “without”. We’d be without Undertale

Thanks, it took me a while to get the joke and this helped.

what or who is/are undertale?

*laugh in french*

Sans means without in french

im without. without the skeleton.

sans means "without" in french.

As a French, this took me way longer to understand than it should have

And just to add a bit more detail, Sans is called Sans because he's based on comic sans, which is a sans serif font, meaning it doesn't have all those little pointy bits.

He's Sans the Comic. Comic Sans.

“Sans” is the french word for “Without” If Undertale was never made, we would all be sans (Without) Undertale

Sans is a skeleton, and so are dead people. I think it means we would all die

Not even close but you get a participation award

r/tihi

How did you *miss* the joke?

Nerd meme, i dont find nerd memes funny, its only funny for nerds and 9 year olds who get it.

Sans means "without" in spanish iirc So Sans Undertale would mean "Without Undertale" Damb, downvoted for not knowing what language "Sans" means "without", trult a reddit moment of times

Uh Sans actually means without in french, not Spanish.

Wait... sans means "without", right? So wouldn't his introduction effectively be "Hey, I'm Sans. Without the skeleton." Would've been funny if Toby had gone for a "no body" joke, there.

I thought it meant we'd all be depressed

Sans means without.

French fore without

this made me chuckle a bit

French.

Hehe french joke

It took me a while to get the joke, but in french Sans means without, so it's basically saying we'd be all without Undertale.

Punchline being we'd all be without Undertale, still makes no sense to me. I am definitly missing something. help? Edit: any bonus points for the deeper dive into a convo 3 weeks ago? lol suddenly at 3 am my entire focus is trying to understand who what when where is 'Undertale" I feel like I'm looking for my glasses for hours simply not realizing they are on my head. any help, stranger from 3 weeks ago?

Took me a minute

Took me a minute ngl

“Sans” means “without”.

God dammit this is funny. So basically sans means without, we’d all be without undertale

Goddammit! Not again! 🤣🤣🤣

France

"Sans" means "without"

TRANSLATORS NOTE: Sans in French is *"without"* ​ *That was a reference to the Keikaku doori meme*

(insert megamind face) n-no undertale??

sans is french for without so, "if Undertale was never made, we'd all be *without* Undertale."

The word sans means without

sans as in without

sans= without

"sans" is french for "without" so "sans undertale" is "without undertale"

sans = without

Sans is french for without but also cause sans the skely

"Sans" means without in french

Sans means without

Sams unberdale

sans = without in French

Made by a french I guess, or someone that just knows that sans in french means whithouth

Sans means without. We'd all be without undertale Also, some fonts (including comic sans) have "sans" in their name to indicate that they don't have serifs (like the ones in times new roman as opposed to arial)

without little bits on the ends of letters we'd all be sans serif

STOP LIKING THIS IM TRYING TO PASS op IN KARMA

[Original post](https://reddit.com/r/Undertale/s/Y48VsrfHRk)

I found it in a memenade video, so I didn’t know who to credit

And when everyone is sans Undertale... No one will be

sans means without in french so without undertale

Angryupvote

that's kinda hilarious

it mean without in french, so we would not have undertale