As anybody who has ever worked as a graphic designer (or with graphic designers) knows, there are certain fonts that are not so much as forbidden to use but, rather, punishable by immediate death and professional blackballing upon use. They also tend to be the ones that first-time or amateur designers go for first, and so you see them pretty much everywhere. The penultimate font horror is, of course, Comic Sans.*

The font is so ubiquitous and corrosive to all good sense that ByDesign has dedicated a podcast to it:

In just 15 years, the casual typeface Comic Sans has become one of the world’s most ubiquitous fonts, popping up everywhere from street signs to porn sites. Now there’s an international campaign to ban it. We meet the type designer who started it all.

(ByDesign: Comic Sans, Font of Controversy)

(Check out this Anti-Comic Sans Font Hoodie)

* There is only one font which can trump the evil of Comic Sans. It is the indubitably wrong, though mercifully much less used “Sand” font.