Simon Garfield, author of Comic Sans: The Biography of a Typeface—the first in his series of books about fonts—wants to know why. Garfield’s new book tracks the history of Comic Sans ...

Then I had to write a book. I had to sober up. Times New Roman, double-spaced, font size 12. But illicitly, in emails, I was high on Rockwell,” he says. Then he and his wife used Comic Sans for ...

Tim Harford, economist and author of the book 'Messy: How To be Creative and Resilient in a Tidy-Minded World' believes that ugly fonts like Comic Sans or Monotype Corsiva help you concentrate on ...