What did Comic Sans ever do to us? The font was one of the typefaces preloaded onto Windows 95—where it stuck out like a sore thumb alongside more stately options like Arial and Times New Roman—and as ...

Designed in 1994 by Microsofts Vincent Connare, the typographic font Comic Sans MS has a unique ability to draw a reader’s ire—particularly when the playful, childish letters are misappropriated for ...

Typography nerds and Android fans, rejoice: You can now download an official version of “the next generation of Google’s brand typeface.” The company has ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Just by downloading the package of fonts, you agree to these terms and conditions. And although Goldman Sans is ...

On the morning of July 4, 2012, two big headlines came from CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, in Geneva. The first was that the Italian physicist Fabiola Gianotti had made a ...

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 ...

When Vincent Connare invented the typeface Comic Sans in 1994, he never set out to offend anybody. The typographer designed it for some of the first Microsoft home computers: it was intended for the ...

In an age of information overload, it's good to have some memory hacks up your sleeve. The font's reader-unfriendly gaps and slants make the brain work harder It is not designed to be used for large ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters. At Vox, our mission is to help you make sense of the world — and that work has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our own. We ...