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PapaStevesy@midwest.social 11 months agoWatchmen 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 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months ago
Bravo, the bit about changing the name so it would appear higher up in the list lent this a lot of credibility indeed.
Risk@feddit.uk 11 months ago
I’m drunk and don’t know what to believe.
Artyom@lemm.ee 11 months ago
All typography lore is obscure.
jaybone@lemmy.world 11 months 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.”