How Comic Sans became the Crocs of fonts
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How Comic Sans became the Crocs of fonts
There was an overarching idea of a computer your mom could use. So the typefaces couldn’t look like those weird monospaced computer fonts. I looked at Helvetica and Times New Roman and the kinds
Max Chafkin • Design Crazy: Good Looks, Hot Tempers, and True Genius at Apple
1982 [the first recorded instance of the digital emoticon]