Designers Finally Found a Useful Purpose for Comic Sans

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Designers Finally Found a Useful Purpose for Comic Sans
Letterpress types, made of wood, placed in a tray in the vintage print shop in Cali, on 2 June, 2012 in Cali, Colombia. Credit: Jan Sochor/Latincontent/Getty Images

Here are two terms that have probably never shared a sentence before: Comic Sans and cancer.

The font your elementary school teachers used to "spice up" curricula -- you know, the one everyone loves to hate -- is now helping to raise funds to fight cancer.

Comic Sans for Cancer is a campaign orchestrated by a trio of British designers who wanted to find a productive use for the most universally hated font.

It's an open invitation to the public to submit posters that somehow integrate the font. The best of the entries will be used in an exhibition in London throughout July; proceeds from the show, along with any donations, will go toward the British charity Cancer Research UK (the independent charity funds research for more than 200 types of cancer).

Entries will be accepted until Friday, and guidelines can be found in full here.

BONUS: 15 Crazy Fonts That Punch Comic Sans in the Face

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