Wishing death upon the putrid house of Comic Sans, font of the peasants and the distasteful, is an art taken to by pretentious typography adoring dicks fans with the same kind of fervency a graphic design student may stray from the mainstream and proudly reject the universally popular and practically clean Helvetica as far too typical for their typographically educated palette.
Comic Sans, who you may remember from Your 10th Birthday Invitation and Ironic Graphic Designer Sartorial Statements, has been protected, defended and cooed into deep breaths by its creator Vincent Connare, in an interview with the Huffington Post in the font’s twentieth year of cringey design choices. Connare spoke to the Huffington Post, who previously published a comment from graphic designer Dave combs (“Comic Sans looks like someone threw up on the keyboard and that’s what came out,”) admitting that he has been responsible for “the most hated and loved font in the world.” HuffPo ominously states that Connare “Knows what he did”, and Connare supports that the font’s inception – as noticing a need for a more convincing text-specific alternative to Times New Roman for cartoon characters – brought one of the most widely used and practically fonts to the world of typography. I mean, at least it’s not fucking Papyrus.
Criticising the designers that created a website to condemn his work, “Ban Comic Sans” Connare defended his font, and noticed that haters probably have way too much time on their hands if they’re interrogating a font, for fuck’s sake: “If you love it, you don’t know much about typography, and if you hate
Comic Sans you don’t know very much about typography either, and you
should probably get another hobby.“
As far as petty hate crimes go, destroying a harmless font is probably the most exhausting; besides, infamous McSweeney’s monologue “I’m Comic Sans, Asshole” once taught us that the font was actually badass, and Jerry speaks the undeniable truth:
As Connare says, in a statement that shouldn’t need to ever be said, but does because groups like this exist: “If you like it, just use it.”
Via The Huffington Post.
