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Comic Sans, Font of Ill Will
Kelson writes "The Wall Street Journal profiles Vincent Connare, designer of the web's most-hated font, Comic Sans. Not surprisingly, the font's origins go back to Microsoft Bob, where he saw a talking dog speaking in Times New Roman. Connare pulled out Watchmen and The Dark Knight Returns for reference, and created the comic book-style font over the next week. 'Mr. Connare has looked on, alternately amused and mortified, as Comic Sans has spread from a software project at Microsoft Corp. 15 years ago to grade-school fliers and holiday newsletters, Disney ads and Beanie Baby tags, business emails, street signs, Bibles, porn sites, gravestones and hospital posters about bowel cancer. ... The jolly typeface has spawned the Ban Comic Sans movement, nearly a decade old but stronger now than ever, thanks to the Web."
Type out a paragraph and read it in Arial, Georgia, Helvetica, Verdana and Comic Sans. Comic Sans is undoubtedly the least readable. It's only easily readable when you're comparing it to other bad fonts.
You're a Windows user though so it's not surprising that you have no taste. I bet you use Windows XP with the fisher price colours enabled and Comic Sans as your preferred font. You probably even have a green and blue Dell to match.
Irrelevant. They are not the same thing, which shitcok up there thought they were. He's an ignorant cunt, and so are you.
Just the fact that this is presented as "stuff that matters" says plenty about the maturity of the typical Slashdotter"!