What did Comic Sans ever do to us? The font was one of the typefaces preloaded onto Windows 95—where it stuck out like a sore thumb alongside more stately options like Arial and Times New Roman—and as its thick preschool curves metastasized across the web, the world enshrined it as the sworn enemy of taste. No font in the history of the written word ( except maybe Papyrus ) has ever inspired such ire. Online gift shops stock anti–Comic Sans shirts and coffee mugs , a free Chrome extension