New BBC corporate font: BBC Reith

I recently attended a meeting in a BBC building (I won't say which one, but it was well outside of the M25). The room's decor was canary yellow, and there were A4 sheets stuck to the walls that were part of some brainstorming project, all in Comic Sans. If you had drugged me, and transported me to that room, I'd have woken up thinking I was in a primary school classroom.

It wouldn't surprise me if they use Comic Sans MS to make that number look "handwritten" as from memory, that number used to be handwritten on the old cards but now it's digitally produced and that is likely the first easy to read 'handwriting' looking font the person who made it found on their PC.

Comic Sans was all the rage

Not in polite circles it wasn’t.

Let's not forget Channel 4's cricket coverage having a graphic in Comic Sans for their final two seasons...

Despite that, it’s a lovely graphic.

What's wrong with Comic Sans? I find it to be a useful font when typing as it makes the words look more sophisticated...

It's more a case of the font being so widespread in the past (before Microsoft introduced Calibri as the default font in Word), that it has been inappropriately used. I mean a Comic Sans danger sign, doesn't work, does it?

There are so many better alternatives without the cringe.

EDIT: 'sophisticated'?

I think you'll find it does quite the opposite.

You're confusing the word 'sophisticated' with the word 'infantile'.

I mean I was being sarcastic but...

The solicitor we use has stationary with its name, address etc in comic sans. Possibly to make the legal profession seem less scary? Iim sure I read once that it's easier for certain people to read