Call me mad if you will, but I think Comic Sans gets a bad rap. And I’m not the only one. While the mere sight of the font is enough to make some type purists scream, rip out their eyes, then bite off ...

A few years back, a pair of researchers set out to study the emotional effects of different typefaces. They found that one in particular possessed an unrivaled ability to rile people up: Wrapped up in ...

When Vincent Connare designed Comic Sans for Microsoft, he couldn’t have known how controversial his font would become. Initially a favorite when it was released in 1994, it has since become a subject ...

On the morning of July 4, 2012, two big headlines came from CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, in Geneva. The first was that the Italian physicist Fabiola Gianotti had made a ...

Over the years, Comic Sans has become the font everyone loves to hate. If being the subject of memes and online ridicule by typeface purists wasn’t enough, the font also sparked a “Ban Comic Sans” ...

Even the creator of the font thinks it’s a joke — but he’s tired of the tweets. By Emma Goldberg Vincent Connare, the creator of Comic Sans, has something to say about his Frankenstein-like font: “If ...

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. Comic Sans ...