Comic Sans’ Big BreakĬomic Sans missed the boat on Bob, but the programmers of another Microsoft product took notice. Unfortunately, it wasn’t ready in time to be included with Microsoft Bob in August of 1995. ![]() ![]() That’s right, Comic Sans was created on a Mac. Upon seeing the ill-fitted Times New Roman in Bob, Connare pulled out two comic books that he had in his office, The Dark Knight Returns and Watchmen.Ĭonnare based Comic Sans off of the lettering in these two comic books, and within a week, he had finished the font, having drawn it on his Mac computer. ![]() The inspiration for Comic Sans’ design has been hiding in plain sight all along.
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