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Comic Sans is a digital typeface from Microsoft Corporation designed to imitate comic book lettering, for use in casual and informal settings. It was designed by in-house designer Vincent Connare in 1994, and a font has been shipped with Microsoft Windows since the introduction of Windows 95, initially as a supplemental font in the Windows Plus Pack. It has since become one of the most popular Microsoft system fonts, partly because it was used as the font for the text inside the tags of Beanie Babies. Comic Sans is used in both print and webcomics as a substitute for hand-lettering, although many comic artists prefer to use custom-designed computer fonts instead. Image File history File links Comic_Sans. ...
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1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ...
Vincent Connare was a Microsoft in-house font designer. ...
Image File history File links Comic_Sans_sample. ...
In typography, a typeface consists of a co-ordinated set of grapheme (i. ...
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A comic book is a magazine or book containing the art form of comics. ...
Vincent Connare was a Microsoft in-house font designer. ...
1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ...
In typography, a typeface consists of a co-ordinated set of grapheme (i. ...
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Windows 95 (codename Chicago) is a hybrid 16-bit/32-bit graphical user interface-based operating system released on August 24, 1995 by the Microsoft Corporation. ...
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History
 Microsoft designer Vincent Connare says that he began work on Comic Sans in October of 1994. Connare had already created a number of child-oriented fonts for various applications, so when he saw a beta version of Microsoft Bob that used Times New Roman in the word balloons of cartoon characters, he decided to create a new face based on the lettering style of comic books he had in his office. He completed the face too late for inclusion in MS Bob, but the programmers of Microsoft 3D Movie Maker, which also used cartoon guides and speech bubbles, picked it up. The speech eventually became true voice, but Comic Sans stayed for the program's pop-up windows and help sections. The typeface later shipped with the Windows 95 Plus! Pack. It then became a standard font for the original-equipment-manufacturer version of Windows 95. Finally, the font became one of the default fonts for Microsoft Publisher and Microsoft Internet Explorer. Image File history File links Comic_Sans1. ...
Vincent Connare was a Microsoft in-house font designer. ...
1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ...
A picture of the Microsoft Bob start up screen. ...
Times New Roman is a serif typeface commissioned by The Times (London) newspaper in 1931 and designed by Stanley Morison together with Starling Burgess and Victor Lardent. ...
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Criticism
 The euro symbol (€) in Comic Sans MS Because of its ubiquitous use, Comic Sans has become the subject of a campaign by designers to eliminate its use, on the grounds that (as typographic purists claim) it is poorly designed and that its inclusion in the Microsoft system fonts package lends itself to inappropriate use — for example, as a text face in documents or at large sizes in signage. Image File history File links Comic_sans_euro. ...
Image File history File links Comic_sans_euro. ...
Graphic design is the applied art of arranging image and text to communicate a message, or facilitate understanding. ...
Typographic work Typography (from the Greek words typos = form and graphein = to write) is the art and technique of setting written subject matter in type using a combination of typeface styles, point sizes, line lengths, line leading, character spacing, and word spacing to produce typeset artwork in physical or digital...
It is alleged by detractors that the typeface is poorly drawn, virtually equal weight being given to the downstrokes and horizontals, and little thought given to the kerning between character pairs, eliminating any of the informal characteristics of true hand-drawn lettering. In typography, a typeface consists of a co-ordinated set of grapheme (i. ...
In typography, kerning is the process of adjusting letter spacing in a proportional font. ...
In his defense, Connare claims that it was not originally designed as a typeface, but as a solution to the problem of finding a font suitable for the packaging of children's software. An example of the informal nature of the font can be found in the euro symbol (€), which in some versions has an "eye" cut out of the serif at the top, making the symbol appear to have something of a "face." The euro (symbol: €; banking code: EUR) is the currency of twelve European Union member states: Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, the Republic of Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain, collectively known as the Eurozone. ...
References
See also Kristen is a font family consisting of two fonts designed by George Ryan for International Typeface Corporation. ...
Core fonts for the Web was a project started by Microsoft in 1996 to make a standard pack of fonts for the Internet. ...
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