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	Comic Sans - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Comic Sans is a digital typeface designed by Vincent Connare and released in 1994, by the Microsoft Corporation.
		Comic Sans MS is available in two weights.
		Humor and warmth is seen in the euro symbol (€) in Comic Sans MS features an eye in the upper terminus.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Comic_Sans (509 words)

	Comic Sans - Uncyclopedia
		Comic Sans MS is an infamous typeface made popular by Australian teachers and child molesters1.
		Comic Sans was originally created to be used as a comic book like font, but its inclusion with the Windows 95 Plus pack, and every subsequent release of Microsoft Windows there after created a snowball effect that caused it to gain extensive overuse in Publisher 97.
		Market research has found that Comic Sans is the most widely recognised typeface amongst children of ages 15 and under.
	uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Comic_Sans (577 words)

	Connare: Art, design & typography:Type Designs:Comic Sans
		Comic Sans was designed because when I was working at Microsoft I received a beta version of Microsoft Bob.
		Comic Sans was NOT designed as a typeface but as a solution to a problem with the often overlooked part of a computer program's interface, the typeface used to communicate the message.
		Comic Sans is the default font in Apple's iCards on the web when it was first released.
	www.connare.com /comic.htm (670 words)

	Ban Comic Sans \| Typographica
		Comic Sans also has a forced awkward ‘cuteness’ which becomes disgusting with overexposure, and it is long past overexposed.
		Comic Sans fails just because it present (unpleasing) naive forms as imagined by a skillful designer which is no longer visually naive in the first place, and so he cannot replicate whan an untrained letterer would accomplish with genuinity.
		Comic Sans unfortunately is rendered with a careless stylization (the “stroked” style) and it gives the impression of a “quick” rendering.
	typographi.com /000389.php (6619 words)

	Church Marketing Sucks: Comic Sans is NOT Okay
		Handwriting or crayon fonts, or even Comic Sans (shudder), are not the only fonts you can use for the children's ministry.
		Sans serif fonts (if, like me, you can't remember the difference, 'sans' means 'without'), like Arial or Helvetica, are often better for online text (this text is written in a sans serif font).
		I haven't designed projects with Comic Sans, but if a client requests it and it really does fit with the personality of their church it might be appropriate.
	www.churchmarketingsucks.com /archives/2004/08/comic_sans_is_n.html (1200 words)

	Comic Sans font family : MyFonts
		Comic Sans is a Microsoft font family with 2 styles.
		Of all the fonts installed with Windows, surely Vincent Connare’s Comic Sans is the most characterful.
		Almost extravagantly unintimidating, Comic Sans has enjoyed huge popularity from Windows users in even the most inappropriate of circumstances (sightings that its designer is keen to record).
	www.myfonts.com /fonts/microsoft/comic-sans (199 words)

	Coding Horror: Comic Sans, the Font Of The Gods
		Clearly, Comic Sans as a voice conveys silliness, childish naivete, irreverence, and is far too casual for such a purpose.
		There's also a rather amusing history of comic sans presentation which I recommend-- now we know to blame Vincent Connare for this font.
		Comic Sans was NOT designed as a typeface but as a solution to a problem with the often overlooked part of a computer program's interface, the typeface used to communicate the message [in a comic character's message balloon].
	www.codinghorror.com /blog/archives/000328.html (1064 words)

	ban comic sans :: Putting the Sans in Comic Sans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In 1995 Microsoft released the font Comic Sans originally designed for comic book style talk bubbles containing informational help text.
		While we recognize the font may be appropriate in a few specific instances, our position is that the only effective means of ending this epidemic of abuse is to completely ban Comic Sans.
		In addition, you can contribute your photographs to the ban comic sans Flickr pool.
	www.bancomicsans.com /home.html (182 words)

	Typespotting - Comic Sans MS
		Comic Sans MS is the stylish script font that comes with
		There was a consistent style used in comics, which was quite unlike the style of lettering you see in newspaper cartoon strips.
		Once you start using Comic Sans you won’t be able to stop – this could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
	www.microsoft.com /typography/css/gallery/spec2.htm (592 words)

	Schenectady Synecdoche: Down with Comic Sans MS!
		They don't specifically take on Comic Sans MS; maybe they feel it would be piling on.
		Personally, I don't think one can overdo trashing Comic Sans; it is an ugly, anti-reader typeface that the CIA is probably using as a torture device.
		I, too, like Gill Sans, but when I was sending out my materials last year, I opted for Times New Roman because of what I imagined as the austerity factor: search committees, I thought, want bare-bones plain-ness.
	wrt-howard.syr.edu /stepaside/archives/2006/09/down_with_comic.html (648 words)

	Death to Comic Sans! (reddit.com)
		It's ironic that the t-shirts use the Comic Sans font in their 'ban comic sans' message.
		I had long hoped that there was a passible raison d'etre for comic sans.
		This was posted here a year ago, and yet Comic Sans lives on.
	reddit.com /info/u99m/comments (491 words)

	COMICS FONTS - Computer Lettering Links - Cartoon Fonts - Comic Book Typefaces (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		(also speech bubbles or word balloons) are a graphic convention used in comic books, strips, and cartoons to allow words (and much less often, pictures) to be understood as representing the speech or thoughts of a given character in the comic.
		Comic Book Lettering The Comicraft Way by Richard Starkings and John Roshell is a book you must read if you are interested in Comic Book Lettering.
		Comic Sans MS is a web font by Vincent Connare.
	hans.presto.tripod.com /links004.html (964 words)

	Comic Sans Cafe
		Comic Sans is the groovy script font which comes with the Windows 95 Plus!
		These pages are designed to be viewed using Microsoft Internet Explorer, with Comic Sans MS and Comic Sans Bold installed.
		You can download the latest version of Comic Sans MS and Comic Sans MS Bold for Windows or Macintosh based computers.
	www.microsoft.com /typography/web/fonts/comicsns/default.htm (427 words)

	moleskinerie: Ban Comic Sans
		I recently purchased and quickly returned a Blackberry phone because, among other things, the interface was done completely in Comic Sans.
		Yes it is the downfall of civilization as we know it, and it may warp our minds and cause cancer in small children, but there is nothing I can use to express my feelings in an e-mail better than comic sans.
		So, until something even more perverse and twisted emerges from the wide world of fonts, I will continue to vandalize and blaspheme the English language by using such an outrageous and illegitimate symbol to show the world just how corrupt and two faced the human race can be.
	www.moleskinerie.com /2004/11/ban_comic_sans.html (384 words)

	Comic Sans® font family : MyFonts
		Comic Sans® is an Ascender Corp. font family with 2 styles priced from $20.00.
		Although it might be seen as a novelty typeface, which is great for titles, it’s also extremely readable on-screen at small sizes, making it a useful text face.
		‘Comic Sans’ is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation registered in the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office and may be registered in other jusisdictions
	www.myfonts.com /fonts/ascender/comic-sans (176 words)

	Julie R. Neidlinger: Lone Prairie Art Works
		And of course, the use of Comic Sans.
		The worst emails I get are in Comic Sans, all caps, bold (just in case I wasn't getting the implied insult), with text-messaging abbreviations instead of real words.
		I cannot abide the inappropriate use of Comic Sans.
	www.loneprairie.net /lp_blog/2006/10/death-to-comic-sans.html (607 words)

	collision detection: Ban Comic Sans
		But because Comic Sans looks "wacky" and "goofy", it is constantly used in Powerpoint presentations, as the assistant vice president in charge of paperclips attempts to kickstart his two-stroke-engine of a soul and somehow express his inner creativity.
		Using Comic Sans in the text on these slides is a very effective way of reinforcing that rough sketches are rough sketches.
		Clive, Comic Sans has been a pet peeve of mine for something like ten years (or whenever I first ran across it).
	www.collisiondetection.net /mt/archives/000987.html (910 words)

	kill comic sans on 43 Things
		Honestly, if I was handed a list of questions in comic sans my respect for the administration of the school, or at the very least, for the person handing me the list, would drop dramatically.
		On a related note, there is a professional publication in my field that is printed entirely in comic sans.
		I had to stop playing the Sims because of all the comic sans.
	www.43things.com /things/view/1779 (344 words)

	SimplytheBest Fonts sans serif fonts
		A groovy script font, which is great for titles, it's also extremely readable on-screen at small sizes, making it a useful text face.
		A sans serif script font similar to Comic Sans MS, but with a simpler and more serious look.
		A sans serif font dedicated to The Sopranos movie series.
	simplythebest.net /fonts/sans_serif_fonts.html (102 words)

	Hacking for Christ: I Hate Comic Sans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Read it, nod sagely, then head over to bancomicsans.com (putting the 'sans' in Comic Sans since 2002) and buy the t-shirt.
		I'll tell you why it's popular to hate Comic Sans: IMHO, it's the font's history of extensive overuse in the business world.
		comic sans (cosmic sand) is just embarrassing to see.
	weblogs.mozillazine.org /gerv/archives/008299.html (824 words)

	Handgranat: Comic Sans Must Die
		PDF 1,4 MB Why Comic Sans must die
		Ban comic sans :: Putting the sans in comic sans
		Comic Sans walks into a bar and orders a beer.
	handgranat.org /comic_sans_must_die (89 words)

	This is the Worst Font in the World. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		It's this horrid font you are looking at right now-- Comic Sans MS...
		Oh this is horrible-People are discussing Harry Potter using thisatrocity known as Comic Sans MS When will the madness stop????!!!!????!!!!
		However, I am not alone in the Comic Sans Hating boat.
	www.expage.com /comicsans77 (208 words)

	Sweatdrop Forums - Comic Sans
		My next comic is going to be written entirely in Comic Sans, and I'm going to submit it along with my Sweatdrop application to join, also filled out in Comic Sans.
		I'm thinking of giving it a slightly French vibe since Comic Sans translates roughly to 'Without Comics' from French to English.
		TBH it wouldn't make sense to people who didn't understand the palava Comic Sans font does to people, esp. people like me frothing at the mouth over a font to the point of insanity.
	www.sweatdrop.com /forum/showthread.php?p=77493#post77493 (360 words)

	Dan Says :: Geocities surfers, rejoice!
		I’m referring to Comic Sans, the whimsical font of choice for Front Page users everywhere.
		...said Lea on 31-Jan-2005 @ 3:49 PM Please don’t forget that according to various different studies, Comic Sans is one of the best fonts for people with reading problems (such as dyslexia), and these comprise 10-15% of the general population.
		I ditched the comic book styling in an attempt to retain the legendary legibility but replace the kiddiness with something a little more grown up.
	www.dansays.com /archives/2005/01/08/geocities-surfers-rejoice (477 words)

	Be A Design Group: The Comic Sans Cafe
		I canand#8217;t resist letting this flotsam andamp; jetsam float to the surfaceand#8230; The Comic Sans Cafe Everyone knows I pick on Comic Sans like a ruthless warlord, so letand#8217;s not revisit that and just cut right to some juicy quotes...
		Everyone knows I pick on Comic Sans like a ruthless warlord, so let’s not revisit that and just cut right to some juicy quotes from the site:
		In 1995 I was 17, and I was hoping for 2 things: facial hair and a Mac version of Comic Sans.
	www.beadesigngroup.com /blog/archives/2004/09/the_comic_sans_cafe.shtml (490 words)

	Comic Sans Patch - iPodWizard.net
		This is a patch for 5G iPods, changing the main font to Comic Sans, (in particular, Comic Sans, size 12, bold).
		If I have the time I will try and make a comic sans with menu icons patch.
		Comic Sans font as before, but with menu icons.
	www.ipodwizard.net /showthread.php?t=6151 (459 words)

	SimplytheBest Fonts Comic Sans MS font
		Download Comic Sans MS font for PC (comic32.exe, 241Kb)
		Download Comic Sans MS font for Apple Mac (comic_sans.sit.hqx, 180Kb)
		For further information on the Comic Sans MS font, click here.
	simplythebest.net /fonts/fonts/comic_sans_ms.html (61 words)

	Comic Sans® Complete Family Pack Font - Fonts.com
		Comic Sans® Complete Family Pack Font - Fonts.com
		Comic Sans MS PS, Comic Sans MS PS Bold
		Comic Sans MS PS.suit, ComicSanMSPS, Comic Sans MS PS Bold.suit, ComicSanMSPSBol
	www.fonts.com /findfonts/detail.htm?pid=427492 (133 words)

	Comic Sans
		Comic Sans « on: November 20, 2004, 05:12:21 pm »
		Comic Sans « Reply #1 on: November 20, 2004, 07:33:36 pm »
		Rahat okunabilsin diye þimdilik Comic Sans kulladým ama dediðin gibi okunaklý bir gothic font olsa oyunun atmosferine çok katkýsý olur.
	forums.taleworlds.net /index.php?topic=31.0 (117 words)

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