The Comic Sans Curse

Comic Sans has become the pariah font of any designer over the last few years.  And to most people it represents all things bad, out of touch and stale.

Back when I was a kid doing school projects, comic sans was a miracle in the scarce Windows 95 font set.  It was an elixir for boring school projects that I could give a crap less about, adding that touch of fun to a seas of drab text.  What happened?

In terms of history, the font came to be as a result of Microsoft Engineer Vincent Connare's initiative to add some fun to Microsoft Bob, a horrendous failure of a program meant to create a simpler interface for users. 

I HATE YOU

 The program was using Times New Roman as the default font and Vince figured that he should create a font to simulate early comic book lettering to accompany the clip art laden clusterf*** of Windows Bob.  Unfortunately it wasn't completed in time and Microsoft Bob crashed and burned in a fiery heap shortly after its launch.

Now thats a fucking desktop.

Comic Sans would become a common typeface once Windows 95 became the operating system of choice for most PC makers at the time.  Over the years the font would be used indifferently by every person and their neighbor ad nauseum on every school flyer, newsletter, 'funny' email at your work, bibles, smut sites, gravestones, hospitals and other hilariously inappropriate places.

At this point typing in Comic Sans on a forum will turn you into a walking target.  At this point we can only hope this zombie font finally falls prey to the Ban Comic Sans movement.