Comic Sans arrived at precisely the moment when computers became tools for personal expression rather than just dull workhorses, and users wanted fonts to match.

Comic Sans appeared on restaurant menus, funeral announcements, official government letters, bumper stickers, business signs—so many places, in fact, that there’s a popular subreddit on the topic.

Thanks to a Google April Fools’ Day prank, the font Comic Sans is one of the day’s most popular search term. Unlike the more staid Helvetica, which found itself roped into the prank, Comic ...

Since then, the global overuse of Comic Sans – sometimes, jarringly, in serious or official documents – has transformed this playful font into the butt of endless jokes and much opposition.

The world’s most reviled font has gone analog with the “Sincerity Machine,” a typewriter that types in Comic Sans.