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I'm Kurt Anderson, and this is the Studio 360 podcast.

In October, the attorney John Dowd sent a letter to the House Intelligence Committee on behalf of two recently indicted associates of Rudy Giuliani.

The letter said that his clients wouldn't comply with the request for information as part of the impeachment inquiry.

The letter's message wasn't unexpected, but what was remarkable about the letter from the lawyer was its

typeface. John Dowd addressed the House Committee in Comic Sans. Maybe he was just celebrating

its birthday. It was 25 years ago last month that Microsoft released the typeface that everybody

loves to hate. Well, not quite everyone.

On today's Studio 360 podcast,

we hear from somebody who wants to know

what's so wrong about Comic Sans.

That's coming up, but first,

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What is the cultural thing that you love that's either completely unfashionable or that somebody like you is supposed to hate?

That is the question we ask for our feature that we call guilty pleasures.

In this installment, somebody who's a member of the tech cognizanti, but also a free speech advocate, which

kind of explains her guilty pleasure. My name is Jessman West, and I'm a librarian and technology

educator in central Vermont, and my guilty pleasure is the typeface Comic Sans.

The internet has spoken. Comic Sans is the most hated font out there.

But who would ever have imagined that a typeface could arouse such emotions that there would be an international campaign to ban it?

Which says the font conveys silliness, childish naivete, irreverence. It is analogous to showing up for a black tie event in a clown costume.

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