Talk:Comic Sans

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Beaumont-Thomas, Ben (March 28, 2017). "How we made the typeface Comic Sans". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077.

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Articles about fonts in fonts[edit]

I used the HTML tags

<font></font>

and

{{DISPLAYTITLE}}

to write the title of the article and its introduction in Comic Sans. Wikipedia source code allows these tags to display text in certain fonts, and I think it's interesting and homological to have an article about a font written in the font. For example, the source code below is the input to the phrase "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" in Comic Sans.

Input

<font face="Comic Sans MS">The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog</font>

Output

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Synod vandalism[edit]

As some of the more involved editors of this page may have noticed, there has been an uptick in a particular sort of vandalism on this article, pertaining largely to the Catholic Church. The fault can be partially be laid on the upcoming Sixteenth Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, otherwise known as the "Synod on Synodality," and its associate style guide. It has become something of a running joke in Catholic social media circles to compare the fonts used in the style guide to Comic Sans. The offending edits will likely remain innocuous in nature but just be aware that this will likely last for another couple weeks more. ~ Pbritti (talk) 23:41, 24 January 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Comic Sans Pro is becoming lost media[edit]

In the article, it says "Comic Sans Pro is an updated version of Comic Sans created by Terrance Weinzierl from Monotype Imaging. While retaining the original designs of the core characters, it expands the typeface by adding new italic variants, in addition to swashes, small capitals, extra ornaments and symbols including speech bubbles, onomatopoeia and dingbats, as well as text figures and other stylistic alternatives. Originally appearing as part of Ascender 2010 Font Pack as Comic Sans 2010, it was first released on April Fools' Day, causing some to initially assume it was a joke.

The italicized variant later appeared in Windows 8."

However, the results I find when searching for this font are either paid access, not what I'm looking for, articles on its release but 0 links to them, or just completely gone. While this is fine, the only place I could find it was fonts.com, which costs $100.

If someone could possibly link a free way to get it I would be grateful! Thanks! 71.143.223.97 (talk) 22:15, 24 April 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

oops, nevermind, I found it. It was located on this page. 71.143.223.97 (talk) 23:48, 24 April 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]