“Comic Sans was designed because when I was working at Microsoft, I received a beta version of Microsoft Bob. It was a comic software package that had a dog called Rover at the beginning and he had a balloon with messages using Times New Roman.”
What’s the deal with Comic Sans?
I love Comic Sans. Like any typeface it has its time and its place. And that is the real issue. Not understanding the notion of appropriateness and acting accordingly.
Comic Sans had its place as a default, provided free with an office suite installation. Like many such defaults of its time, there are far better choices for comic-book type that show much greater care in their creation, and communicate far more effectively.
Comic Sans is simply not very well designed. The character set is inconsistently drawn and poorly letterspaced. And its widespread use is a holdover from the early days of desktop publishing, when delighted individuals without design experience realized they could inundate the world with exuberantly-overdone ransom-note documents.