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Is Comic Sans the 'worst font of all time'?

The Week — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 14:46:00 -0500

It may seem cheery, but it's inspiring quite a bit of hate. Earlier this year, Time magazine called Comic Sans — the ubiquitous typeface modeled on comic-book lettering — "perhaps the worst font of all time." Since then, multiple Facebook groups have united against it, and a decade-old movement to "Ban Comic Sans" is gaining online traction. The gratingly "friendly" typeface, created at Microsoft in 1994 to package children's software, seems to inspire indiscriminate use, showing up everywhere from "Beanie Baby tags" to "porn sites, gravestones and hospital posters about bowel cancer...

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Video: Man wants 'IM GAY' license plate

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The Week — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:05:01 -0600

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Video: Jay-Z: 'We are the World' remake a mistake

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Video: Palin slams 'Family Guy'

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Video: Tiger Woods's imminent return?

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Video: Sea dog swims through fan mail

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Video: Kevin Smith: Too fat to fly?

The Week — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:21:59 -0600