Notable Uses
- In the simulation game, The Sims and its expansion packs, Comic Sans was used for all in-game text.
- In 2010, Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert was criticized for using Comic Sans in a public letter regarding LeBron James's decision to leave the team. The usage caused a resurgence of interest in, as well as criticism of, Comic Sans.
- Also in 2010, the game Kingdom Hearts re:coded, the "secret message" the game was centered on used Comic Sans.
- On April Fools' Day 2011, typing the name of the fonts "Comic Sans" and "Helvetica" into the search engine Google produced a page of results entirely in the Comic Sans font.
- Later in 2011, the parody website The Onion featured the font in a faux-news story in which "experts" discussed why people find the font to be so humorous.
- When selecting Comic Sans to display instant messages in Skype, the emoticon menu icon changes from a happy smiley to a sad smiley.
- In July 2012, when the discovery of the Higgs boson was announced at CERN, the spokesperson of the ATLAS experiment used the font in her presentation of the results.
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