Valium Font. HVD Comic Serif Font. Friends Don’t Let Friends Use Comic Sans. If you ask designers what their least favourite font is, often the reply will be Comic Sans.
It is classified as a casual font and was initially designed by Vincent Connare to look like the fonts used in comic books. You see it frequently on fliers, posters and menus, and let’s be honest it just screams AMATEUR! There can’t be too many fonts that are the butt of a joke either: Comic Sans walks into a bar, bartender says, ‘We don’t serve your type.’ Thankfully, Comic Sans is not one of the fonts considered “web safe” or I’m sure we’d see it abused all around the web. There is even a web site dedicated to its outright obliteration. Eight More Alternatives To Comic Sans. Poor old comic sans, it’s the typeface that many designers love to hate.
The comic sans font was designed in 1994 for Microsoft by typographer Vincent Connare with the intention of providing a casual style typeface reminiscent of comic book lettering. The problem with comic sans appears to be its overuse and misuse. I wrote a post about comic sans two years ago called Friends Don’t Let Friends Use Comic Sans, also listing some nice free alternatives.