Who is the face behind comic sans?
Why should we know his name and his work?
Vincent Connaire
Vincent Connare is the responsible for the creation of Comic Sans font, and he takes full blame for the tragic use world did of this typeface. Commissioned by Microsoft, he designed the ubiquitous, bubbly typeface in 1994, but now he sympathizes with the world-wide movement to ban it from the hearth.
The font was aimed to look like comic-book lettering but its usage reached territories far away from children garden: holiday newsletters, Disney ads and Beanie Baby tags, business emails, street signs, Bibles, porn sites, gravestones and hospital posters about bowel cancer.
Ban Comic Sans movement, is the movement against Comic Sans. Nearly a decade old but stronger now than ever it proclaim its mission: “to eradicate this font” and the “evil of typographical ignorance.”
What message wants Mr. Connare leave us when he states: “If you love it, you don’t know much about typography, if you hate it, you really don’t know much about typography, either, and you should get another hobby”? Is there some meaningfulness on this typeface we are not able to see?
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