“Comic sans” Love or Hate?
“Comic sans” Love or Hate ? In 1995 Microsoft released the font Comic Sans originally designed for comic book style talk bubbles containing informational help text. Since that time the typeface has been used in countless contexts from restaurant signage to college exams to medical information. These widespread abuses of printed type threaten to erode the very foundations upon which centuries of typographic history are built. While we recognize the font may be appropriate in a few specific instances , our position is that the only effective means of ending this epidemic of abuse is to completely ban Comic Sans. Comic Sans was designed because when I was working at Microsoft I received a beta version of Microsoft Bob. It was a comic software package that had a dog called Rover at the beginning and he had a balloon with messages using Times New Roman. Comic Sans was NOT designed as a typeface but as a solution to a proble...
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