Hands up: how many of you have at some point in your youth created a school project poster, a powerpoint presentation or even a website and decided that Comic Sans was the font for you? Yes, that's all of you, and we should all be ashamed of ourselves. In theory, there's nothing wrong with the font, it's a cheery-looking, nicely rounded kind of guy who just wants to make it easier for you to read things, and maybe make your mood lighter as you do so. But the problem here is that absolutely every single person is attracted to the thing at some point, meaning that we have a bizarre over-saturation of the smiley upstart. It is the lowest common denominator of fonts, and because of this, you see it everywhere that you'd expect to see a lesser quality service plying a trade. For example, if you walked into a restaurant and noticed that the duck a l'orange was being served with a delightful side of inoffensive sans fonts, you'd probably think about running straight through the door again, in fear of what disinterested mess was going to be served to you when your food finally arrived on the arm of a perma-grinned goit of a waiter. This is the sort of assumption we make whenever we see Comic Sans, and yet it seems not to deter any business owner from employing it. The only thing that can manage to make it even worse is if you find it on poorly secured posters with a white background and a nice and easy blue font draped all over the face. It reeks of small shopping mall barber shop window.
