Simon Garfield, author of Comic Sans: The Biography of a Typeface—the first in his series of books about fonts—wants to know why. Garfield’s new book tracks the history of Comic Sans ...
Comic Sans arrived at precisely the moment when computers became tools for personal expression rather than just dull workhorses, and users wanted fonts to match. The type was of its age: It met a ...
designer Vincent Connare began creating Comic Sans in October 1994 as an informal font for Microsoft Bob, a user interface released for Windows in March 1995 that used objects inside a cartoon ...
Tim Harford, economist and author of the book 'Messy: How To be Creative and Resilient in a Tidy-Minded World' believes that ugly fonts like Comic Sans or Monotype Corsiva help you concentrate on ...