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Meet the Font Detectives Who Ferret Out Fakery (wired.com)
New submitter rgh02 writes: Earlier this year, the former prime minister of Pakistan and his family came under scrutiny thanks to revelations in the Panama Papers. The smoking gun in the case of a forged document was none other than a font -- Calibri, which, as it turned out, wasn't even available until after the document had allegedly been signed and dated. This is not the first or the last time typography helped crack a case, and often with help from experts appropriately referred to as the 'font detectives.' At Backchannel, Glenn Fleishman dives into the adventures of the experts ferreting out fakery with their knowledge of fonts and the high-profile cases they've found themselves involved in.
Credulously accepting Times New Roman in MS Word as a typewriter font is what got Dan Rather into trouble.
This sounds like the least interesting crime show I have ever heard of, and I will not watch the dramatization even if Tom Hanks plays the lead.
I don't need Google. It appeared the day Lucifer and his angels rebelled against God. It was formed in the fires of hell, created to hold the damned for all eternity. It is first of the horsemen of the Apocalypse, to be followed by Papyrus, Bleeding Cowboy, and finally the anti-christ, the false messiah, Helvetica.
If instead you would have typed that exact question into a search engine instead of your comment, I'm sure you would receive a more informative answer than this cheeky wisecrack comment.
The best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask the right question but to post the wrong answer.
I try to use fixedsys fonts such as system in all of my writing they are widely accepted and have a tested user base. On top of that the system font avoid most modern time based conflicts as it dates back to the 1980's. It takes low resources and low resolution to create on a display device. I would encourage everyone to use system font and avoid all the painful issues of compatibility, performance, and legal ramifications that other much newer fonts can have.
There is or can be built a machine that can simulate any physical object. -Church-Turing principle
Perhaps... but the OP didn't ask when (or how, or why) it was created, he asked when it appeared. Presumably "appeared" would typically mean appeared to people with a typical range of perceptual ability.
Besides... I would suggest that Comic Sans isn't even really that bad a font by (most) objective measures. The single biggest complaint that most can legitimately make about it is that it suffered hugely from overuse in contexts where a whimsical looking font was not actually appropriate (resume's, corporate bulletins, and even funeral announcements, to name just a few) and that is what gave it most of the bad rep it now enjoys. It has a few technical problems, but usually these are seen as secondary to how poorly people have historically used the whimsical font in places where it was not appropriate. If Comic Sans were to have originally had all of the characteristics of the more modern font Comic Neue, for example, it would have been no less reviled than it is today.
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
You misspelled Aldus Pagemaker but we don't mind. Everybody knew what you meant.
Fonts of knowledge researching fonts for knowledge.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .