The project

Comic Sans MS is probably the most hated font in the world. Created in 1994 by Vincent Connare for Microsoft, it was meant to appear in speech bubbles of a children’s software. Not on your bakery’s storefront. Not on a death notice. Not on your building’s fire evacuation sign.

And yet.

Comic Sans Frontières catalogues, maps and documents sightings of Comic Sans MS in public spaces, all around the world. Signs, posters, panels, menus, shop windows, plaques, monuments…

The method

Scouring Google Maps, Street View and the web, city by city, country by country, to track down Comic Sans where nobody is looking for it. Obsessive digital exploration at the service of involuntary art.

The rules

• Only occurrences found in public or semi-public spaces. No private jokes, no memes.
• Zero travel. Everything is discovered from a screen.
• No judgement. Comic Sans is not ugly. It is misunderstood.

Why?

Because behind each Comic Sans sighting lies a story. A deliberate choice, an oversight, a default setting left unchanged. Each specimen is a small involuntary monument to everyday visual culture.