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Facts About Comic Sans
In Skype messenger, if you change your font to Comic Sans then the emoticon next to the text-field turns into a frowny, disapproving face. But if you change it to any other font then the smiley face returns.
In-between Apple IIGS and the iPod, Apple grew so jealous of Comic Sans they swiped it for themselves. In 2000, they introduced free electronic postcards called iCards, for which the default font was Comic Sans. Soon enough they stopped ripping Comic Sans off and made their own knockoff version, Chalkboard. However, Chalkboard lacked the letter J and a Question Mark.
Ever since 2009, DJs on Dutch radio stations have celebrated the first Friday of every July as Comic Sans Day, encouraging their listeners to “send all your mails, print all your reports and all your sticker address labels in this illustrious font”.
In 2013, Dutch airline giant KLM even decided to get in on the fun, changing the font on their website to Comic Sans and offering people named C. Sans the chance to win free plane tickets!
Comic Sans is available on 99.13% of Windows computers and 90.91% of Macs. Only an estimated 61% of Linux users have Comic Sans, however.
If you’re unlucky enough to be one of the 0.87% of Windows users who doesn’t have Comic Sans, you can buy it, but at a high price. Comic Sans is readily on sale at $30. And no, that’s not a joke, if you want it and you gotta pay for it then you gotta pay the full $30!
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