Thanks to a Google April Fools’ Day prank, the font Comic Sans is one of the day’s most popular search term. Unlike the more staid Helvetica, which found itself roped into the prank, Comic Sans is ...

Call me mad if you will, but I think Comic Sans gets a bad rap. And I’m not the only one. While the mere sight of the font is enough to make some type purists scream, rip out their eyes, then bite off ...

The font normally reserved for 14-year-old girls’ gossip emails and chain letter forwards from your mother got a new celebrity endorsement last week when Cavs’ owner Dan Gilbert fired off an open ...

Twenty-five years ago, a typographer invented Comic Sans because digital dogs don’t speak in elegant fonts. “Dogs don’t talk in Times New Roman!” Vincent Connare told the Guardian. “So, I had an idea ...

Over the years, Comic Sans has become the font everyone loves to hate. If being the subject of memes and online ridicule by typeface purists wasn’t enough, the font also sparked a “Ban Comic Sans” ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. Comic ...

Like the tuxedo T-shirt and the Yoda backpack, some objects are too perfect not to exist. Such is the Comic Sans typewriter. The device, announced last week by Pittsburgh-based artist Jesse England, ...

Comic Sans has become the font of all jokes and memes. Loved by some, reviled by many. Unsurprisingly, its creator is its biggest fan. Speaking at WIRED's annual two-day conference, Vincent Connare ...

I’m a rare breed: I make fonts. Yes, people make fonts — for brands, for readers, for the young and old, and across global languages. So, it was with a mix of discomfort and delight that I read Pilita ...