The meanest Comic Sans you'll ever see

Comic Sans, the dinky typeface that is inexplicably one of the Core Fonts for the Web, has never looked more menacing. Cleveland Cavaliers majority owner Dan Gilbert used the typeface Thursday night in his sour grapes open letter to Cavs fans shortly after LeBron James announced he was signing with Miami. 

Perhaps no font has inspired more ire and contempt than Comic Sans. As explained in the video below from Ban Comic Sans, a typeface should be like a crystal glass and not a golden, bejeweled goblet. In other words, it should be invisible and let its contents speak for themselves. When a typeface draws attention to itself, the writer has already lost. Comic Sans has done exactly that, and being one of the most recognizable fonts out there, it has easily become the most hated.


Comic Sans from Sam and Anita on Vimeo.

Typically Comic Sans is reserved for playful text and anything written by a 9-year-old, which makes Gilbert's use of the typeface all the more perplexing. Coupled with the fact that, as Deadspin put it, the letter contains "prose you normally find wrapped around a brick," this could be the oddest and most unjustifiable use of Comic Sans in its 16-year history.