Twenty-five years ago, a typographer invented Comic Sans because digital dogs don’t speak in elegant fonts. “Dogs don’t talk in Times New Roman!” Vincent Connare told the Guardian. “So, I had an idea ...

On the morning of July 4, 2012, two big headlines came from CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, in Geneva. The first was that the Italian physicist Fabiola Gianotti had made a ...

Over the years, Comic Sans has become the font everyone loves to hate. If being the subject of memes and online ridicule by typeface purists wasn’t enough, the font also sparked a “Ban Comic Sans” ...

Some of the best designs have a measured dose of wit, teasing the intellect without trying too hard to be funny. But jokey designs tend to be corny, as unappreciated as a gag gift.