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link	Why Comic Sans?	http://www.connare.com/whycomic.htm	Matthias Kretschmann	2012-05-21 21:18:17+00:00	2120	design	Link	typography

The creator of Comic Sans, Vincent Connare, revealing the irony of it:

Comic Sans was NOT designed as a typeface but as a solution to a problem with the often overlooked part of a computer program's interface, the typeface used to communicate the message.

There was no intention to include the font in other applications other than those designed for children when I designed Comic Sans. The inspiration came at the shock of seeing Times New Roman used in an inappropriate way.

He also has this presentation dubbed I hate Comic Sans (pdf)