The script typeface Comic Sans MS was designed by Vincent Connare and published 1994 by Microsoft Corporation. It was inspired and modeled after fonts used in American comic books. It mas meant to imitate the font style used in comic books for informal texts. Only few years after its release, in 1996 it became a default font for Microsoft computers. One of its closest relatives is the Chalkboard typeface, also in clear and clean script.
Despite being a fairly young typeface, it has already been through phases of high popularity for its friendly and rounded scripted shapes. These friendly and curvy shapes make it very child friendly, as the similarity to the "standard" neat handwriting gives it a high legibility and it was used a lot in schools. It soon reached high popularity and was used a lot, often for things it had not been intended to.
Eventually this lead to the BAN COMIC SANS Movement. Its constant overuse even for matters of seriousness, for which it was inappropriate, lead to it almost becoming a nuisance. In 1999 two U.S. graphic designers created the "Ban Comic Sans" website, stating the typeface should match the tone of its text, i.e. not hold a serious or factual text.
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