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Comic Sans designer: "Comic Sans was not designed as a typeface"
- vlad 19y agoHas anyone else noticed how many great articles start out with "when I worked at Microsoft?"
- hhm 19y agoYes, it's interesting. http://www.google.com/search?q=%22when+i+worked+at+microsoft%22&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=com.ubuntu:en-US:official&client=firefox-a http://www.google.com/search?q=%22when+i+worked+at+microsoft...
- Hexstream 19y agoSounds like Microsoft's sum of its parts is less than its individual constituents...
- portLAN 19y agoIt was designed as a floor wax.
- nivi 19y agoIt should have been called "Comic Sans is based on The Dark Knight Returns".
- BrandonM 19y agoI found it kind of weird that he showed anger at the end at OS/X copying his font, when he had just admitted that much of his inspiration came from comic books. Is this not the pot calling the kettle black? That aside, it was an interesting story.
- aston 19y agoMicrosoft, of course, copied Helvetica (as Arial) to distribute with their OS.
- wanorris 19y agoMaybe I'm focusing on minor details, but Arial has never seemed like a dead ringer for Helvetica to me. Or at least no more than, say, Franklin Gothic and Helvetica are the same font. There are some clear differences in letterforms that give the fonts a somewhat different feel, at least to me. Having said that, regardless of the differences in execution, it wouldn't surprise me to learn that some Product Manager at Microsoft said "Make me something that looks like Helvetica", and the result was Arial.
- paulgb 19y ago"The inspiration came at the shock of seeing Times New Roman used in an inappropriate way." I love the irony that Comic Sans was born because the designer was shocked at seeing another font used inappropriately.