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New book out this fall: Comic Sans: The Biography of a Typeface. “Author Simon Garfield tells the story of how Comic Sans emerged from speech bubbles on educational software to become one of the most recognized — and reviled — typefaces on Earth.”

Discussion  2 comments

Matthew Marco

I'm curious if it'll be different from the UK edition (https://www.counter-print.co.uk/products/comic-sans) and if the other books in the series will also merit a US launch.

Mark Strozier

Papyrus, you bastard.

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