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Comic Sans: It’s the best font in your tool box if you’re committed to sappy, unsophisticated design, and want to prove to the world that your type library hasn’t been updated since 1995.
Today, Comic Sans is the Crocs of fonts. First we hated it, then we loved to hate it, now we kinda, maybe love it because we’re experiencing it through a different lens.
By the time the font was ready, in 1994, it was too late to include it in Microsoft Bob. But Comic Sans was used in other applications and ended up as one of the system fonts in Windows 95.
Comic Sans is what Shelton calls “a fun-times font”, manspreading across paper in strokes thicker than fair Cambria or no-nonsense Garamond. (Bierut says Helvetica, by contrast, is “a call ...
What did Comic Sans ever do to us? The font was one of the typefaces preloaded onto Windows 95—where it stuck out like a sore thumb alongside more stately options like Arial and Times New ...
AILSA CHANG, HOST: If the cartoony-looking font known as Comic Sans makes you cringe, well, you are not alone. The typeface turned 25 years old this month, and it has drawn its fair share of hate ...
And no font is more egregious, more outlandish, more universally notorious, than the storied Comic Sans. Featured Video Now, Rozynski wants to change the world by removing the stigma—and that ...
Comic Sans is perhaps one of the most divisive fonts around, either hated or ironically adored by the masses. Since its humble beginnings, Comic Sans has evolved from a casual, accessible typeface ...
Comic Sans is what Ms. Shelton calls “a fun-times font,” manspreading across paper in strokes thicker than fair Cambria or no-nonsense Garamond. (Mr. Bierut said Helvetica, by contrast, is a ...
The 1990s ushered in a radical new era for typography, as the rise of desktop publishing democratised font design and ...
The font's creator, Vincent Connare, told The New York Times, "If you love Comic Sans, you don't know much about typography. And if you hate Comic Sans, you need a new hobby." ...
One of the new fonts added to Instagram's Create Mode for Stories bears an upsetting similarity to Comic Sans — the most hated font in the world.