The Guy Who Invented Comic Sans Went To Milford High

MILFORD, MA—When asked on Yahoo answers, the "best" response to "Why do people hate comic sans?" is, "Most people hate comic sans because it's too cutesy-pie. It's the font equivalent of wearing bows in your hair and a poufy dress and speaking in a squeaky little-girl voice."

It's gotten a bad rap for years, but it sure got popular in the '90s. So did the Trebuchet MS.

Both fonts were invented by Vincent Connare, a British-American typeface designer, who went to Milford High School.

According to Wikipedia, despite Comic Sans' commercial success, "it is controversial and its detractors are passionate. The hatred goes so far that a group Canadians campaigned to ban the font in 2005. Connare has not been deterred by the negative backlash to his creation, in fact at the Fourth Annual Boring Conference Connare said he found the contempt for his work to be "mildly-amusing."

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