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Comic Sans has turned 30, and it’s done being your punch line. Don’t take it from us. Take it from various studies that have been done on the subject of “turning 30.” And from the three ...
In a major leap forward for comic book lettering technology, Comicraft has unveiled its first font featuring their new "Crossbar I" technology. View this post on Instagram. The font claims to be ...
Comic Sans has become the font of all jokes and memes. Loved by some, reviled by many. Unsurprisingly, its creator is its biggest fan. Speaking at WIRED's annual two-day conference, Vincent ...
But calling it a font is a misnomer — as the above video ... If you want to learn more about comic lettering, you can explore the blog of legendary letterer Todd Klein. Or, at the very least ...
LIMBONG: That stately font which was default on Windows at the time. CONNARE: And so I saw that and said, well, that's not how a comic dog should talk. LIMBONG: So he mimicked the lettering he saw ...
Simon Garfield, author of Comic Sans: The Biography of a Typeface—the first in his series of books about fonts—wants to know why. Garfield’s new book tracks the history of Comic Sans ...
Nickelback — few evoke the scorn and indignation of what Mr. Connare affectionately calls “the Justin Bieber of fonts.” The depth of the internet’s distaste for Comic Sans was on full ...
“Because I like it,” Gianotti replied. Comic Sans has long been the “Macarena” of fonts. Type aficionados don’t like it, the way coffee connoisseurs don’t like Starbucks. It is the ...