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PUBLIC MARKS from sbrothier with tags internet & typography

2014

This designer just made Comic Sans, the Internet’s most hated font, cool again

Comic Sans is less a font than an Internet punchline. Anything written in the loopy, childlike type is ripe for derision, no matter what it describes: LeBron James’ defection from the Cleveland Cavaliers. The pope’s retirement. The existence of the Higgs boson. 

2010

Timothy McSweeney's Internet Tendency: I'm Comic Sans, Asshole.

Listen up. I know the shit you've been saying behind my back. You think I'm stupid. You think I'm immature. You think I'm a malformed, pathetic excuse for a font. Well think again, nerdhole, because I'm Comic Sans, and I'm the best thing to happen to typography since Johannes fucking Gutenberg.