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'I would be very insulted...it looks tacky' - Why we shouldn't use Comic Sans font

Would you write a death notice in Comic Sans? - That was the question posed in a recent column in...

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19.44 11 Nov 2020


'I would be very insulted...it looks tacky' - Why we shouldn't use Comic Sans font


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19.44 11 Nov 2020


Would you write a death notice in Comic Sans? - That was the question posed in a recent column in The Guardian, and it got us thinking - why do we use the fonts we do.

Barbara Feeney joined us to try answer that question and told Kieran why she believes fonts have personalities.


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