Comic Sans MS is a sans-serif typeface designed by Vincent Connare and released in 1994 by Microsoft Corporation. It is a non-connecting script inspired by comic book lettering, intended for use in cartoon speech bubbles, as well as in other casual environments, such as informal documents and children's materials.
Vincent Connare explaining in 2009 how he came to create "the world's favourite font"
A defibrillator case in Monaco with a label in Comic Sans
The user interface for a Latin-language automated teller machine in the Vatican City uses Comic Sans for its text prompts.
Vincent Connare is an American type designer and former Microsoft employee. Among his creations are the fonts Comic Sans and Trebuchet MS, as well as the Man in Business Suit Levitating emoji. Besides text typefaces, he finalized and hinted the font Marlett which has been used for scalable User Interface icons in Microsoft Windows since 1995 and created portions of the font Webdings that was first shipped with Internet Explorer.
Connare in 2012
Connare explains how he came to create 'the world's favourite font' in 2009.