Guardian writer Patrick Kingsley has published an article on the UK newspaper’s website, “In defence of the Comic Sans font”, and on 15 June, popular literary magazine McSweeney’s ran a short piece, from a humorous first-person perspective, defending the font.
Kingsley wrote that “Comic Sans has its place”, connotes “warmth and friendliness” and, crucially, “doesn’t display ignorance, just a lack of alternatives”, speaking from a non-designer point-of-view.
The McSweeney’s piece, written by Mike Lacher, shares that similar populist notion, claiming that not everyone has “73 weights of Helvetica sitting on our 17-inch MacBook Pros”.
Slamming Comic Sans has become something of a fad ever since the Ban Comic Sans movement started in 1999 by designers Dave and Holly Combs. The site has spawned several copies and blogs posting photos of the typeface being ‘misused’.
The font was designed in 1994 by Vincent Connare and released by Microsoft. Comic book letterer Dave Gibbons, best known for his Watchmen book with Alan Moore, served as the typeface’s inspiration.
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