![]() ![]() LIMBONG: Connare senses a certain type of elitism from people who hate on it.ĬONNARE: They disrespect, if that's the right word for it, the people that use it. He knows it's not the most elegant font, but it gets the job done.ĬONNARE: You have to do things that aren't beautiful sometimes. LIMBONG: So he mimicked the lettering he saw in comic books and designed Comic Sans. LIMBONG: That stately font which was default on Windows at the time.ĬONNARE: And so I saw that and said, well, that's not how a comic dog should talk. ![]() VINCENT CONNARE: But it was in Times New Roman. And he was working on software that would teach people how to use a computer through cartoon characters who spoke in speech bubbles, including a yellow dog named Rover. Back in 1994, Vincent Connare was working at Microsoft. NPR's Andrew Limbong explains.ĪNDREW LIMBONG, BYLINE: If you think Comic Sans looks immature, child-like something a teacher would use, well, that's sort of the point. The typeface turned 25 years old this month, and it has drawn its fair share of hate, even from people who normally don't think twice about typography. I'm not sure convincingness (convincingocity? convincingitude?) is always the first thing everybody looks for in hand-style fonts, although it is certainly important.If the cartoony-looking font known as Comic Sans makes you cringe, well, you are not alone. Nate: many (would-be) handwriting-look fonts suffer from the problem that you cited, but some of these are popular in spite of it, and most are, at least, not so universally despised that it's actually become a running gag, as with Comic Sans. Though even most of these aren't adequate for anything involving matrices.STIX Math, a SIL font by Elsevier, is the best one I've found (at least, the best open-source one, and better than a lot of commercial ones: its chief flaw is its resemblance to Times Roman ).) ![]() (I always get stuck using one of these (or a variant that includes certain special characters) when I'm using a regular commercial word processor because they're the only ones that have a decent variety of the math characters I need. I'm rather embarrassed to ask this, but just why does everybody hate Comic Sans so much? I mean, I was never crazy about it (I can't put my finger on just what it is that seems so different (and so much more pleasing!) about this one), but I don't particularly hate it or even especially dislike it any more than any of the other boring and/or overused fonts that tend to be included with commercial operating systems (Times Roman, Helvetica, the various Arials, etc.). ![]()
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