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Buffaloaf@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Fun fact: The Watchmen was the first comic book to use Comic Sans
samus12345@lemmy.world 2 years ago
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Buffaloaf@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Fun fact: The Watchmen was the first comic book to use Comic Sans
PapaStevesy@midwest.social 2 years ago
Watchmen came out almost a decade before Comic Sans existed, it was hand-lettered by Dave Gibbons. In fact, it directly inspired the creation of Comic Sans according to Wikipedia.
Clusterfck@lemmy.sdf.org 2 years ago
Holy shit I’m an idiot.
I just realized it’s comic as in books and not comic as in funny.
thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca 2 years ago
You’re not an idiot-- That distinction isn’t discernable from the name per se, that information is concealed within some relatively obscure typography lore!
Consider this quote from Wikipedia:
Now, Wikipedia doesn’t tell you that because I just made it up, but it would be totally plausible! Then some of us would be talking about how we thought it was about comic books. So you’re not an idiot, IMO.
Obi@sopuli.xyz 2 years ago
Bravo, the bit about changing the name so it would appear higher up in the list lent this a lot of credibility indeed.
Artyom@lemm.ee 2 years ago
All typography lore is obscure.
jaybone@lemmy.world 2 years ago
I thought it was from comics as in newspaper comics, which are usually funny and used to be referred to sometimes as “the funnies.”