Typeface Inspired by Comic Books Has Become a Font of Ill Will
18th April 2009
The jolly typeface has spawned the Ban Comic Sans movement, nearly a decade old but stronger now than ever, thanks to the Web. The mission: “to eradicate this font” and the “evil of typographical ignorance.”
“If you love it, you don’t know much about typography,” Mr. Connare says. But, he adds, “if you hate it, you really don’t know much about typography, either, and you should get another hobby.”
Indeed. Obsessing about little things suggests an unconscious realization that one has no power over bigger; this is why a spread of interest in “graphic novels” and video games is a disturbing indication that collectivism and over-regulation are growing, not shrinking, in the world.