~ From Just My Type:
A Book about Fonts by Simon Garfield.
Tuesday, January 7, 2014
The Genesis of Comic Sans
Comic Sans was
designed by Vincent Connare for a Microsoft software package called Microsoft
Bob, which was supposed to be particularly warm and friendly. He thought the software needed a warmer and
friendlier font than Times New Roman, so he came up with a font that looked
rather like it had been carefully traced by a child. Unfortunately, it didn't fit in the allotted space for the text,
so they didn't use it. (Microsoft Bob,
incidentally, was a flop. The new
typeface, though, was used for the Microsoft Movie Maker, which wasn't a flop.) And, yes, it was designed with comic books
in mind (10-15).
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