The
bloke who invented the Comic Sans typeface sympathises with people who want to
have its use banned.
Vincent Connare said he was amused and mortified, as
Comic Sans has spread from its days as a software project at Microsoft 15
years ago to something which was incredibly popular.
Now the typeface, which
is designed to look like comic book lettering, is everywhere and lots of people
really hate it. Connare told the Wall Street Journal that people who love it
don't know anything about typography. However those who hate it don't seem to
know much either.
Connare, uses a font called Magpie, Microsoft owns comic
sans, which was designed for Redmond's Microsoft Bob turkey. When it was used
in Windows, its use took off and it became seen as the font that you used when
you wanted to appear cool and a little unconventional.
Connare is not too
happy with the font's success. For a while he agreed to let his image be used
in the campaign to ban it. Fortunately, the use of the typeface is slowly
sliding out of popularity. If anything it is starting to look a bit retro, he
said.
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