font|Developed as a cartoon font, Comic Sans has ended up in surprising places over the years.
Rarely the font evokes as much emotion as Comic Sans.
The engineer who developed the font for Microsoft in 1994 knows that Vincent Connarewho has given dozens of interviews on the subject. He still stands behind his controversial creation.
“The critics of Comic Sans don’t understand anything about design,” Connare said about architecture and design, among other things In an interview with Dezeen.
The font style was created as a replacement for the classic Times New Roman. Connaren wanted to create a font for Microsoft that would be suitable, for example, for speech bubbles in cartoons.
When the style appeared in Windows 95 programs, people adopted it. At the turn of the 21st century, Comic Sansia was everywhere from school bulletin boards to doctors’ offices.
The excessive use of the font made some people hate it. Even so much so that a playful was established for the font style boycott group in 2002.
Nowadays, Comic Sans is mostly used in internet memes and as a powerful tool in advertising campaigns. Over the years, it has also been used in official contexts.
HS compiled a list of cases where the use of Comic Sans has caused confusion.
2010: In the statement of the NBA boss
Dan Gilbert, the majority owner of the basketball team Cleveland Cavaliers, caused hilarity in the United States with a statement written in Comic Sans font.
When NBA stars LeBron James announced his departure from the Cleveland Cavaliers basketball team in 2010, the team’s majority owner at the time And Gilbert wrote about it in an attention-grabbing manner the letter.
The literal, 421-word statement was written in Comic Sans. It was published on the team’s official website. Gilbert, who called Comic Sans the credit font, was laughed at in the US media.
“Glibert, for some reason, decided to use a font favored by six-year-olds and grandmothers to write the most public message he would ever post,” Techcrunchwas written on the site.
2012: At the World War II memorial in Holland
In the municipality of Maasdonk, Holland, there is a World War II memorial written in Comic Sans.
In autumn 2012 In Holland, in the Maasdonk municipality, a new monument honoring the victims of the Second World War was unveiled. However, the names of the victims were written on the plaque in Comic Sans.
A small one was born from the font selection saliva. The residents thought the style was ugly and cheap. The municipality’s communication department justified its choice by saying that the font style is thick enough and can be seen from afar.
2012: In Historical Particle Physics Seminar
The Higgs boson particle was presented at the Cern laboratory to the public in Comic Sans.
As a celebration day in 2012, researchers at the Swiss Cern laboratory finally got to present their latest discovery to the world: the Higgs boson particle.
The researchers had chosen Comic Sans to present the discovery. The font received almost more attention than the historical find itself.
“We were completely blown away by the fact that a bunch of the world’s most brilliant people thought Comic Sans was the appropriate typeface for such a historic occasion,” wrote The Verge -leaf.
2013: In the virtual photo album of Pope Benedict XVI
This is what the virtual photo album commemorating the career of Pope Benedict XVI looks like on the Vatican website.
The Vatican the state also favors Comic Sans.
Pope Benedict XVIretired in 2013, a 60-page profile was published about him virtual photo album. In the work commemorating the Pope’s significant moments, the texts were written in Comic Sans and the captions in the Papyrus font.
2015: Drug police officer Jari Aarnio on the nameplate
The name tag used in Jari Aarnio’s drug trial was written in Comic Sans.
30 years old the font style has also been used in Finland in surprising situations.
When the drug police Jari Aarnion the trial was discussed in the media in the spring of 2015, sharp-eyed readers drew attention to a surprising detail. Aarnio’s name tag used in the trial was written in playful Comic Sans.
It was a human accident, the district court was told Now.for. The printer thought the font was clear and therefore suitable for the occasion.