WATCH: This modded typewriter prints everything in Comic Sans

Comic Sans may not be the most popular font out there, but an artist is paying tribute to—or at least trying to sympathize with—it by modding a 1970s manual typewriter to churn out documents only in that font.

Artist Jesse England said he thought of the Comic Sans typewriter - which he dubbed the "Sincerity Machine" - after he viewed a document with a typewriter font in it.

Questioning media's functions

"As part of my ongoing thesis of questioning how we create, consume, store (and fetishize) media, it's my wish that a classic, functioning typewriter altered to write in the most popularly despised font of modern times will provoke thoughts about such media concerns," he said.

England said he used a laser engraving machine to etch new letters out of acrylic, then glued them onto the strikers of a 1970s Sears-branded Brother Charger 11 typewriter he found in the street some years back.

He then used a vinyl cutter to make new key covers as well.

England said he got the name "Sincerity Machine" from a Cat and Girl comic strip by Dorothy Gambrell.

'Mark of sincerity'

In his video, England said the Comic Sans font is a "mark of sincerity from those who do not have graphic design experience."

"I’m not particularly enamored with this font, but I don’t think it deserves the flak it gets,” he said. — Joel Locsin/TJD, GMA News