Comic Sans MS
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| font | Comic Sans MS |
| category | Sans serif |
| Font classification | handwriting-like grotesque font |
| Font designer | Vincent Connare |
| Type foundry | Microsoft |
| Creation | 1994 |
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Comic Sans MS is a handwriting-like grotesque font.
history
Vincent "Vinnie" Connare developed it in 1994 while working for Microsoft . Originally, this font should be used in the speech bubbles of the Microsoft Bob software used for user guidance . After completing the font, however, it turned out that the texts did not fit into the speech bubbles, which is why the font was not used. Her first job was in 1995 in 3D Movie Maker . Since it was shipped with the Plus! Package from Windows 95 , Comic Sans MS has been one of the standard fonts in the Microsoft operating system. As part of the so-called “core fonts”, the font is also licensed free of charge for other systems. Since then, it has become one of the most popular fonts for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS .
Since the font lacks the italic font style, when you select the "italic" option in some word processing programs, the upright font style is simply set at an angle.
With Microsoft Windows 8 and an italic version of the font has been provided for the first time, which is installed by default.
criticism
Comic Sans MS is frowned upon among designers due to its frequent non-professional use. Since it is preinstalled on most computers, it is often used carelessly and improperly, for example in an excessive font size or as a breadcrumb for longer business texts. There are even sites that hate the font on the Internet, as well as font-inspired alternatives.
Others
- The font largely meets the requirements for a font for dyslexic people.
- In April 2014, a Kickstarter project was launched to create a modernized version of Comic Sans. Comic Neue is licensed under the SIL Open Font License and therefore free of charge.
- The OpenBSD project
httpdspecifically uses the Comic Sans font for most of its presentations and web server software to indicate that many people seem to care more about the physical than the technical.
Trivia
- Canada issued a 25-cent commemorative coin for National Day 2004 using Comic Sans MS as the font to reflect the "playful humor common to all Canadians."
- The search engine operator Google published its search results for the search terms Comic Sans and Helvetica on April 1, 2011 as an April Fool's joke in Comic Sans MS.
- The discovery of the Higgs boson at the Swiss research center CERN was announced in July 2012 by Fabiola Gianotti with a presentation in which the Comic Sans MS font was used. As a result, the question was raised whether a “more serious” or “more serious” font would have been more appropriate for the occasion.
- The Internet phenomenon Doge uses Comic Sans MS as a font.
- To commemorate the Eric Garner death , Chicago Bulls player Derrick Rose wore a warm-up shirt in December 2014 that read "I Can't Breathe" in Comic Sans MS.
- "Sans" from the game Undertale uses Comic Sans MS as the font in its text boxes , from which its name is derived.
- In the comic album series Duckburg Edition - Donald by Carl Barks , Comic Sans MS is used as the font for the German title of a comic.
Web links
- Vincent Connare: Vincent Connare: photography & typography. July 25, 2008, accessed on March 27, 2012 (English, explanations by Vincent Connares on the history of the font).
- Konrad Lischka: Schauder-Schrift Comic Sans - The net hates these characters. Spiegel Online , June 3, 2008, accessed March 27, 2012 .
- Cameron Chapman: Comic Sans: The Font Everyone Loves to Hate. December 1, 2009, accessed March 27, 2012 .
- Simon Garfield: What's so wrong with Comic Sans? BBC News Magazine, October 20, 2010, accessed October 12, 2012 .
- Craig Rozynski: Comic New. April 7, 2015, accessed April 7, 2015 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Vincent Connare's website. Retrieved October 9, 2012 .
- ↑ Simon Garfield: Just my Type. A book about scriptures. Ullstein Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-550-08879-7
- ↑ Dave Combs: ban comic sans :: Putting the Sans in Comic Sans. Retrieved March 27, 2012 .
- ↑ a b Christian Simon: No more hating Comic Sans , Süddeutsche Zeitung , March 14, 2017
- ↑ Jens Kutilek: Comic Jens Free. April 15, 2020, accessed April 15, 2020 .
- ↑ Brochure: Fonts for dyslexic people - First Austrian umbrella association for dyslexia. In: First Austrian umbrella association for dyslexia. Retrieved April 4, 2016 .
- ↑ Bob Beck: More Lolz .. In: LibreSSL - An OpenSSL replacement: The first 30 days, and where we go from here. Retrieved December 5, 2016 .
- ↑ Jenny Hendrix: Comic, Sans Appeal. In: The New Yorker. October 29, 2010, accessed June 7, 2015 .
- ^ BC boy wins National Coin Design Contest. In: Canada NewsWire. June 22, 2004, archived from the original on October 31, 2004 ; accessed on June 7, 2015 .
- ↑ Google Plays With Helvetica, Comic Sans For April Fools' 2011 Gag. The Huffington Post , April 1, 2011, accessed March 27, 2012 .
- ↑ Comic Sans for Everyone. Google , accessed March 27, 2012 .
- ^ Jacob Aron: Higgs in Comic Sans: the right font for physics? In: New Scientist. July 6, 2012. Accessed January 4, 2012 (requires registration).
- ↑ http://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/wow-dogecoin-bitcoin
- ↑ http://www.fastcodesign.com/3039705/why-comic-sans-works-so-well-on-the-i-cant-breathe-shirts
- ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/10/sports/basketball/i-cant-breathe-tshirts-in-the-nba-how-jayz-lebron-james-and-others-made-them -happen.html