I’ve written my fair share of articles poking fun at Comic Sans myself. But I think the criticism of the use of “Comic Sans” in the “I Can’t Breathe” T-shirts to be wildly off-the-mark.

Comic Sans was created in 1994 by designer Vincent Connare, who was working on a long-forgotten Microsoft program called Bob. Connare’s program was supposed to help use the Windows operating ...

People dissed Comic Sans being misused, not its existence, so he could hardly be responsible for the way people used a typeface when it was out there. It’s funny how dated some of that stuff ...

But the reason that Comic Sans sort of caused all the furor was because of a perfect storm. It was bundled with Windows 95, which meant that people had access to it in a way they hadn’t before.

But it seems that the very childlike jauntiness which has made Comic Sans so appealing to computer users publicising village fetes and amateur designers creating logos for toy shops has also made ...

Notably, Comic Sans was born in 1994 — the same year as many of us — and has also come of age along with Millennials. Yet, for whatever reason, people are not very font of Comic Sans.

He’ll probably use Comic Sans without realising it’s wrong in certain circumstances." Comic Sans, which had been a standard in the Microsoft font library since it was included in Microsoft 95 ...

Especially in print, Comic Sans looks mostly like it’s been drawn by a 5-year-old Sharpie. Furthermore, from a practical standpoint, I avoid Comic Sans because of its recognizability.