How The Watchmen Inspired Comic Sans

I recently learned that Comic Sans is heavily based on the lettering of dark, gritty comics like Watchmen and The Dark Knight Returns. Given it’s current reputation, I never would have guessed Comic Sans took inspiration back to two of the darkest and most influential comics of the 1980s, so I had to see it for myself. Comic Sans version original version I started by replacing the lettering in a classic Batman panel with Comic Sans. Then I did the same thing with a few panels from Watchmen. Comic Sans’d Watchmen Original Watchmen I was really impressed by how well Comic Sans worked in these comics, especially in that Watchmen panel. I mean… holy cow! Comic Sans looks nearly identical to Dave Gibbon’s original lettering. I originally Comic Sans-ified these comics as a joke, but the results aren’t as weird as I had expected. Thinking about it more, I think it’s because we usually think of Comic Sans as mixed-case usage, but comics are usually lettered in all uppercase. Case in point:…