Twenty-five years ago, a typographer invented Comic Sans because digital dogs don’t speak in elegant fonts. “Dogs don’t talk in Times New Roman!” Vincent Connare told the Guardian. “So, I had an idea to make a comic-style text.”

Connare was working on a short-lived program called Microsoft Bob, created to make computers more user-friendly for children. When a digital dog appeared on the screen talking in Times New Roman, Connare decided the program needed a font that was more fitting and fun.