Vincent Connare designed the ubiquitous, bubbly Comic Sans typeface,
but he sympathizes with the world-wide movement to ban it.
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 font, a casual script designed to look like comic-book lettering,
is the bane of graphic designers, other aesthetes and Internet geeks.
It is a punch line: "Comic Sans walks into a bar, bartender says, 'We
don't serve your type.'" On social-messaging site Twitter, complaints
about the font pop up every minute or two. An online comic strip
shows a gang kicking and swearing at Mr. Connare.
The jolly typeface has spawned the Ban Comic Sans movement, nearly a
decade old but stronger now than ever, thanks to the Web. The
mission: "to eradicate this font" and the "evil of typographical ignorance."
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