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01.01.2010
It’s easy to complain about the soul-eroding tyranny of badly-created, ungodly-overused fonts. In restaurants in some parts of San Francisco, “There’s Comic Sans on my menu!” has taken the place of “There’s a cockroach in my salad!” as plausible explanations to the cops about why you freaked out and did a dine-and-dash. The management should definitely comp you a dessert, at minimum.

Okay. But is there anybody out there actually doing something about the problem?

Why, yes: the fine men and women of Comicraft Fonts (). Comicraft is out on the front lines in a never-ending battle against Comic Sans, Helvetica, Papryrus, and the American Typewriter.

They hold a unique and cherished position among font companies. Their fonts are not:

No, to the last, Comicraft’s fonts are lively, but clear and readable; interesting, but not distracting; unique, but with a wide range of applications.

I’ve been a huge fan of these folks’ work for years and Comicraft fonts is nearly always part of the answer to any design problem I face. They’re the titles for my YouTube videos, the fonts delivering Good Wishes in my electronic Christmas card this year, the headers and banners in my websites. And every Keynote presentation I do usually contains 100% Comicraft fonts.