Charles Apple

Yes, believe it or not, the Wall Street Journal used comic sans on a headline in its June 5 story about Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams:

“Butterick” — who posted this last week at Typophile — quipped:

I guess the barbarians have breached the gates and made it inside the walls of the city.

Absolutely:

Thanks to Josh Ferrin for tweeting this.

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UPDATE:

The Journal then did it again, a few days later:

I don’t mind it so much in the dialogue balloon. But as a headline, reversed out of that blue bar? Ick.

And the Comic Sans typeface has responded to all this hate. In style:

You don’t like that your coworker used me on that note about stealing her yogurt from the break room fridge? You don’t like that I’m all over your sister-in-law’s blog? You don’t like that I’m on the sign for that new Thai place? You think I’m pedestrian and tacky? Guess the fuck what, Picasso. We don’t all have seventy-three weights of stick-up-my-ass Helvetica sitting on our seventeen-inch MacBook Pros. Sorry the entire world can’t all be done in stark Eurotrash Swiss type.

Read it here.

Thanks to the multitude of folks who pointed this out to me, including Krissi Humbard and James daSilva.

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