designer Vincent Connare began creating Comic Sans in October 1994 as an informal font for Microsoft Bob, a user interface released for Windows in March 1995 that used objects inside a cartoon ...

“It was real, but it was in on the joke,” said Terrance Weinzierl, now creative type director at Monotype, who created the extended font at the time. Over the next few years, Comic Sans became ...

What did Comic Sans ever do to us? The font was one of the typefaces preloaded onto Windows 95—where it stuck out like a sore thumb alongside more stately options like Arial and Times New Roman ...