Sadly, Comic Sans Is Not Available Here
If you're not familiar with your common font styles, take a look at these.
The font I normally use here is called Times, or Times New Roman. In many places, this is the default font that has serifs. Serifs are those little "hooks" and curlycues at the ends of many letter strokes.
Correction: I lied in the paragraph above. This font is not Times. It's the default this blog uses which appears to be Arial. It's weird because Times looks like it's selected in my editing menu, and it looks like Times as I'm typing, but when published, it looks more like Arial. Typing I did after Courier below is actually Times. Note to Google, there's a bug in your blogging software.
Correction: I lied in the paragraph above. This font is not Times. It's the default this blog uses which appears to be Arial. It's weird because Times looks like it's selected in my editing menu, and it looks like Times as I'm typing, but when published, it looks more like Arial. Typing I did after Courier below is actually Times. Note to Google, there's a bug in your blogging software.
Arial, on the other hand, is often the default font that is sans (without) serifs.
Helvetica is closely related to Arial. In fact, I'm not even sure there are noticeable differences.
Georgia is pretty close to Times. It's another serif font.
Trebuchet has no serifs. If you take a little while to compare them, you'll find a few points (like the l's) that distinguish it from Arial and Helvetica.
Verdana used to be considered the best font for use on the Web because it's so easy to read text that uses it.
All the fonts above allow their letters to be as close to each other as possible. Courier is a mono-spaced font in which every letter is the same width. It has its uses too.
And those are all the choice I have for writing this article. I can't use Comic Sans, the one shown in the picture above.
I believe Comic Sans was chosen for this day to poke fun at websites (and other documents) that use it. It's considered a sign of inexperience and datedness.
If you can find a website that uses Comic Sans - and I'm sure there are still many out there - take a quick look at the content and the overall style of the site. I bet it's all pretty dated. It just looks and sounds old. Don't get me wrong - it may still be accurate, but the creator just hasn't kept up with the standard practices of the times.
If you can't use Comic Sans all day - and I understand that your boss may not appreciate it in an email going out to a client - at least try to find one of those sites that uses it. I'm sure the creator (webmaster, as he or she used to be called) would appreciate your visit.