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Comic Sans was created after a designer saw a cartoon dog in Microsoft Bob speaking in Times New Roman. But the new font ran larger than the speech bubbles allowed, so it never made it into Bob itself.
Lewis Carroll, author of 'Alice in Wonderland,' invented a writing system called Nyctography for writing in complete darkness. Every letter consists of dots and lines that fit a square grid. With a cardboard template called a nyctograph, he could write legibly with his eyes closed.