..Vincent Connare..

Microsoft's Typographic Engineer and type designer, began working on Comic Sans MS in October l994. He became aware of the need for a fun font when a large number of cartoon style software titles were under development at Microsoft. He believed drafting lettering was being used inappropriately in comic speech balloons. Influenced by the lettering used in major comic books, rather than newspaper cartoon strips, he began to develop a font that would be suitable for speech balloons to be used in Microsoft 3D MovieMaker. When sound was added to the program, the balloons were omitted but the font was used for the pop-ups and dialogue boxes. Comic Sans MS, a TrueType font, was included with Windows 95 OEM, the Windows95 Plus pack, Publisher and Microsoft Internet Explorer.