Fonts They Love to Hate, Part One: Origins of Comic Sans
Ridiculous History
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How to Make the Typeface Comic Sands
Vincent was working for Microsoft's typography team and dealing with people from other applications in Carta. He says a lot of these fonts felt strange and childlike to him. One program called Microsoft Bob, B-O-B Don't want to be Bob. Vincent: I booted it up and out walked this cartoon dog talking with a speech bubble in Times New Roman.
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