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The backlash against the world's most hated font may be ending

The backlash against the world’s most hated font may finally be ending.

Comic Sans arrived at precisely the moment when computers became tools for personal expression rather than just dull workhorses, and users wanted fonts to match. “The magic is that people took to it on their own,” Tom Stephens, who worked alongside Connare in Microsoft’s typography unit when Comic Sans emerged, wrote in The Guardian. With a whiff of internet-age irony, he printed T-shirts, stickers, and mugs with a logo (“Comic Sans” encased within a red “No Entry” sign), and the public crusade against the typeface began.

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