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Comic Sans began fifteen years ago as a project by Microsoft to add a note of informality for its ill-fated computer companion Bob.

But while Bob was euthanized years ago, Comic Sans has remained a staple of faux informality in the computer age, despite a decade-long effort to press the delete key on the comic book-style font. There's even a Ban Comic Sans Web site.

http://lifehacker.com/5219538/should-comic-sans-be-banned

I've forgotten why I was attracted to this font more than a decade ago. I was writing books about Microsoft Windows (Windows Secrets) and played a lot with fonts. It works for me.