Loading...Whether you like them or not, memes have secured themselves in the Internet history books. Being quick, easy, and customizable humorous images, memes are a perfect way to spread and create humor online, hence why they have become so popular. Everyone can make them, and anyone can enjoy them. And no matter what, you will always recognize a meme for its big, bold font and usually funny image behind it.
And it’s always the same font; but why is that? In this great video by Vice, you’ll learn all about the history of this meme typeface, what it is, and why it has immortalized itself as the meme font that has taken over the Internet in the last decade. As it turns out, the typeface was never intended to be used I the manner it ended up being used for. It was just a font that was styled for the big and bold headlines of the 50s and 60s. But when it got put in Windows as one of the default typefaces, it eventually made its way to be universally recognized as the one and only meme font.