How Comic Sans became the Crocs of fonts

Comic Sans has turned 30, and it’s done being your punch line. For three whole decades, Comic Sans cowered at your reproaches and winced at your jokes. It barely flinched when Google’s practical joke made sure that searching for “Helvetica” would render all results in Comic Sans. Or when CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, made it the butt of an April Fool’s joke three years later. It even sat quietly while people gathered signatures for its demise. But Comic Sans...