{"id":1902,"date":"2009-04-20T13:19:39","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T17:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=1902"},"modified":"2009-04-20T13:25:13","modified_gmt":"2009-04-20T17:25:13","slug":"comic-sans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/20\/comic-sans\/","title":{"rendered":"Comic Sans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB123992364819927171.html\">Emily Steel<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB123992364819927171.html\"><p>Mr. Connare says he first realized that the tide had turned against Comic Sans in January 2003, while studying for his master&rsquo;s degree in type design at the University of Reading in Berkshire, England. He got an email from Mr. Combs asking for permission to use his photo for stickers, T-shirts and coffee mugs to promote &ldquo;typography awareness&rdquo; for the movement to ban Comic Sans that he and his wife had founded. Busy and distracted, Mr. Connare said OK.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&rsquo;t really understand the big deal with Comic Sans. If you&rsquo;re going to hate a font, hate Arial.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emily Steel: Mr. Connare says he first realized that the tide had turned against Comic Sans in January 2003, while studying for his master&rsquo;s degree in type design at the University of Reading in Berkshire, England. He got an email from Mr. Combs asking for permission to use his photo for stickers, T-shirts and coffee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}