One of the new fonts added to Instagram's Create Mode for Stories bears an upsetting similarity to Comic Sans — the most hated font in the world.

Comic Sans: It’s the best font in your tool box if you’re committed to sappy, unsophisticated design, and want to prove to the world that your type library hasn’t been updated since 1995.

Today, Comic Sans is the Crocs of fonts. First we hated it, then we loved to hate it, now we kinda, maybe love it because we’re experiencing it through a different lens.

Comic Sans is less a font than an Internet punchline. Anything written in the loopy, childlike type is ripe for derision, no matter what it describes: LeBron James’ defection from the Cleveland ...

You should be grateful to Comic Sans. The one great thing that it did is it introduced people to the debate about typefaces. In a twisted way, Comic Sans contributed to the growth of fonts in general.

Obviously, Comic Sans is a contentious font. I’ve written my fair share of articles poking fun at Comic Sans myself. But I think the criticism of the use of “Comic Sans” in the “I Can’t ...

Comic Sans has long been the “Macarena” of fonts. Type aficionados don’t like it, the way coffee connoisseurs don’t like Starbucks. It is the font everyone loves to hate.

And here it is in 13-point Comic Sans: I can read the Comic Sans copy without my eyes totally glazing over, which is more than I can say for those same words in Times New Roman.

W hat did Comic Sans ever do to us? The font was one of the typefaces preloaded onto Windows 95—where it stuck out like a sore thumb alongside more stately options like Arial and Times New Roman ...

And Comic Sans, neither script nor odd, should be in the running for the official Army font. It is simplistic, nostalgic, aesthetically pleasing and easily enjoyed by everyone and anyone with even ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Microsoft Corporation Comic Sans is perhaps one of the most divisive fonts around ...