Also works for searches ‘Times new roman’ and ‘Courier new font’, but not for ‘Lucida console font’ or ‘Dejavu sans font’.

    • Daemon Silverstein
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      91 day ago

      Comic Sans is freeware

      Unfortunately, no… It’s neither freeware nor open source, as per https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/font-list/comic-sans-ms

      It’s copyrighted to Microsoft Corporation. It only comes with Windows installations and with Microsoft Office installations, both of which aren’t freeware as well.

      While any person with access to a functional Windows installation could copy the files from C:/WINDOWS/Fonts, it doesn’t mean that the file can be freely used legally, especially for embedding within the web, especially by another big tech corporation which Google is.

      they can use CSS to force Comic Sans if installed.

      Indeed (the CSS font fallback feature), but considering that the OP is using Google Search app, it’s Android so it isn’t expected to have the font (except if they manually installed the font using a file copied from a Windows installation) .

      • @[email protected]
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        41 day ago

        I heard they had to make it freeware to put into web standards. So they didn’t and still made it annoyingly ubiquitous? Bastards.