Helvetica is so 2011, or so says the Comic Sans Project - a site created to extol the merits of what, until now, has been considered the poorest, most useless font-based weapon in the Windows PC's arsenal. And to prove it, the self-appointed Comic...

A designer called Mary Huang has concocted a rather nifty bit of software which allows anyone to create a font unique to them, using the proportions of their face.

It's called Typeface, and uses a webcam and some facial analysis software to...