You. How dare you use this font!Apparently, there is large underground movement to remove Comic Sans from Microsoft fonts due to "inappropriate" use - such as composing serious emails, signage, Beanie Babies tags, etc. when the original intent was for comic strip word bubbles.
The movement has gained significant momentum - enough to attract the WSJ:
"Typefaces convey meaning, typographers say. Helvetica is an industry standard, plain and reliable. Times New Roman is classic. Depending on your point of view, Comic Sans is fun, breezy, silly or vulgar and lazy."
Intense, WSJ.
The Ban Comic Sans Movement has a website with an ever so clever slogan "putting the sans in comic sans."
For more background on this infontjustice, here is a link to the wikipedia article.
Yes. There is a T-Shirt.
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Back when I was working, I always hated it when someone would send work emails in a "flowery" font. Especially a hard-to-read one. It wasn't uncommon.
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