While spending a week’s holiday in Gran Canaria, (it was a last-minute deal, we booked it the day before) my girlfriend and I noticed the preponderance of Comic Sans, a horrible font.
As we noticed more and more instances of this pernicious weed (menus, shop fronts, signs, notices, posters, fliers, etc) we developed a kind of shorthand “look, Comic Sans” gesture. The satisfaction - similar to that felt in the mid-nineties upon sighting of a prime mullet, before the term had seeped into the public consciousness - was short-lived. It became less funny and our tastes became more discerning.
Now only the crassest use of the font will hold our interest. We haven’t seen any funeral homes using Comic Sans yet, but pictured above is a handout from a course my girlfriend attended. It quotes (probably erroneously as it turns out - see Wikipedia article) Petronius Arbiter, a noted satirist and courtier in Nero’s Rome, who committed suicide in AD 66.
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