Nothing is particularly wrong with Impact or Comic Sans as fonts per se, but there is a huge deal wrong with using them in every situation. This isn’t a riff on the world’s worst fonts, but rather an invitation for amateur designers and business users to stop abusing some of the world’s best fonts. In releasing mega-popular suites and catering to a broad, design-illiterate audience, leading business applications such as Microsoft Word shocked us with the overused fonts that they include standard in their latest releases. However, there is one reason to resent these giants: their choice of fonts. Without them, our industry wouldn’t be what it is today, and many of the world’s top designers wouldn’t have a platform for their work. They’re responsible for some of the greatest leaps forward in communications and business in the last 30 years-and many of the biggest innovations in design, too. We’ve got a lot to thank Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and the computing world’s other leaders for.

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