Shortly after Pope Benedict XVI took the almost-unprecedented step of retiring from the papacy and became "Pope Emeritus," the Vatican posted a 60-page photo album â€" that's entirely in Comic Sans font.
The album is chock full of papal photos from Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, with each page highlighting a different part of Benedict's short-lived papacy. The last page has a copy of Benedict's retirement letter, dated Feb. 10:
Comic Sans, popular during the mid-1990s, has been sworn off by most web designers as a childish and inappropriate font for most purposes. Regardless of your feelings toward the font everybody loves to hate, it may be tough to argue with a little thing called papal infallibility.
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