_Pollux writes_:
One reads alarming statistics sometimes. The “increase”:http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/04/20/090420fa_fact_bilger in the number of gigantic Burmese pythons in Florida, the growing rate of sea-ice shrinkage, the country’s unemployment rate.
Here’s another statistic that will chill your blood: by approximately 2018, usage of the “Comic Sans font”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_sans will have surpassed usage of the Helvetica and Times New Roman fonts. By 2030, Comic Sans will be the only remaining font. All other fonts will be extinct and will go the way of grunge and post-grunge lettering.
These are the statistics provided by the “Ban Comic Sans movement”:http://www.bancomicsans.com/about.html, which has sprung up in reaction to the Comic Sans typeface, originally designed by “Vincent Connare.”:http://www.connare.com Connare, as reported in this “_Wall Street Journal_ article”:http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123992364819927171.html by Emily Fleet, is not exactly against the movement against his typographic baby, and is certainly fonder of one of his other creations, the “Magpie font.”:http://www.connare.com/type.htm
Originally designed in 1994, Comic Sans has become the _bête noire_ of the typography world but “sometimes it has been a superhero, as seen in this humorous video,”:http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1823766 and sometimes a “dim-witted creature with a lisp.”:http://www.sheldoncomics.com/archive/070510.html
Holly Sliger and Dave Combs, the husband-and-wife team who started the Ban Comic Sans movement and man the typographic barricades, offer merchandise, font alternatives, and oratory on their website to inspire us all:
“By banding together to eradicate this font from the face of the earth we strive to ensure that future generations will be liberated from this epidemic and never suffer this scourge that is the plague of our time.”