The History of Comic Sans at ROFLThing NYC

Rocketboom coverage of 2009 ROFLThing NYC: Font designer Vincent Connare talks about the history of his most famous work, Comic Sans. Music by Podington Bear. For story links and more info visit http://www.rocketboom.com/rb_09_jan_30/

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Science & Technology

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• comic
• connare
• font
• roflcon
• roflthing
• sans
• vincent

[BRon11]

Nice job on the alphabet at the end!  Ww Xx *Ww* Zz !?

[CLiDED]

I hate Comic Sans so much.

[RaTeDRKOdwyer94]

comic saaaaaaaaaannnnsss!

[liammillay2]

@CLiDED well then you are retarded

[ZharekRaldeesh]

@agmileyfan222 Precisely my opinion.

[pealwah]

@Devver08 Don't hate on Copperplate! The good ones are obviously going to get used more often than the bad ones (few exceptions like Comic Sans which aren't very good, but still decent). Trajan is an serifed caps face too that's been used a lot. If you were to chronicle every instance in the univers of Trajan being used for movie branding, you'd notice that it's been used a myriad of times for movies but it's still good.

Snuck in 5 typeface names in the last sentence. Feeling proud...

[pealwah]

@AutumnGracy Not so much overuse, but rather misuse. Gill Sans and Georgia are probably used a lot more than Comic Sans and it's not a problem.

[MrJashez]

Comic Sans has been everywhere. But tell me a professional use. NOOOOOT

[ZakobYoa]

COMIC SAAAAAAANS!

[jessicamolcanart]

This background music is brutal. Why would you ruin a conference recording with music meant to slowly murder someone?

[bnation]

worse than the font is the horrible music track. ugh.