Comic Sans fights back
Listen
 up. I know the shit you’ve been saying behind my back. You think I’m 
stupid. You think I’m immature. You think I’m a malformed, pathetic 
excuse for a font. Well think again, nerdhole, because I’m Comic Sans, 
and I’m the best thing to happen to typography since Johannes fucking 
Gutenberg.
You don’t like that your coworker used me on that note about stealing 
her yogurt from the break room fridge? You don’t like that I’m all over 
your sister-in-law’s blog? You don’t like that I’m on the sign for that 
new Thai place? You think I’m pedestrian and tacky? Guess the fuck what,
 Picasso. We don’t all have seventy-three weights of stick-up-my-ass 
Helvetica sitting on our seventeen-inch MacBook Pros. Sorry the entire 
world can’t all be done in stark Eurotrash Swiss type. Sorry some people
 like to have fun. Sorry I’m standing in the way of your minimalist 
Bauhaus-esque fascist snoozefest. Maybe sometime you should take off 
your black turtleneck, stop compulsively adjusting your Tumblr theme, 
and lighten the fuck up for once.
People love me. Why? Because I’m fun. I’m the life of the party. I bring
 levity to any situation. Need to soften the blow of a harsh message 
about restroom etiquette? SLAM. There I am. Need to spice up the 
directions to your graduation party? WHAM. There again. Need to convey 
your fun-loving, approachable nature on your business’ website? SMACK. 
Like daffodils in motherfucking spring.
When people need to kick back, have fun, and party, I will be there, 
unlike your pathetic fonts. While Gotham is at the science fair, I’m 
banging the prom queen behind the woodshop. While Avenir is practicing 
the clarinet, I’m shredding “Reign In Blood” on my double-necked 
Stratocaster. While Univers is refilling his allergy prescriptions, I’m 
racing my tricked-out, nitrous-laden Honda Civic against Tokyo gangsters
 who’ll kill me if I don’t cross the finish line first. I am a sans 
serif Superman and my only kryptonite is pretentious buzzkills like you.
It doesn’t even matter what you think. You know why, jagoff? Cause I’m 
famous. I am on every major operating system since Microsoft fucking 
Bob. I’m in your signs. I’m in your browsers. I’m in your instant 
messengers. I’m not just a font. I am a force of motherfucking nature 
and I will not rest until every uptight armchair typographer cock-hat 
like you is surrounded by my lovable, comic-book inspired, sans-serif 
badassery.
Enough of this bullshit. I’m gonna go get hammered with Papyrus.
This is courtesy of Timonthy McSweeney
 

 

 
 

