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Comic Sans is an unlikely hero in this CollegeHumor original: Font Conference.

My favorite character is Futura. What's yours?

Oh great, now anyone can create a Comic Sans

New York Times tech writer Peter Wayner published this article "Down with Helvetica, design your own font" this week.

"Before the personal computer, most people were oblivious to fonts. Some may have recognized Courier and Elite on the I.B.M. Selectric typewriter ball. Then word processing programs offered a hundred or more fonts, from Arial to Wingdings. More were offered in software packages and on the Internet. Now, many people can recognize fonts by name. Indeed, a documentary about typography and one of the most familiar typefaces, “Helvetica,” played to sellout crowds at film festivals."

He also writes about this cool Web site, fontstruct where anyone can try their hand at font-ography.

Do you know your Optima from your Adobe Calson Pro?

Play this game to find out! It's 34 multiple choice font recognition questions. And it's randomly resorted each time.

I scored 27/34 after a practice round.