The casual script choice for everyone … perfect as a display face, for marking up comments, and writing passive aggressive office memos. The squashed, wonky, and weird glyphs of Comic Sans have been beaten into shape while maintaining the honesty that made Comic Sans so popular. The quirkiness of Comic Sans is gone, but what does that actually leave us with? Comic Neue, according to its website, is meant as: Comic Neue aspires to be the casual script choice for everyone including the typographically savvy. The Ubuntu fonts use the Ubuntu Font License v1.0. Most of the fonts in the collection use the SIL Open Font License, v1.1. Comic Neue also seems more legible, mainly because of bigger “counters” (the empty bit in “p”, for instance). It is important to always read the license for every font that you use. Comic Neue is the corporate version of handwriting: efficient and uniform. The look and feel of Comic Sans is like that of a rough and cute (childlike) handwritten typeface. ![]() The unified appearance and clearness of the font is based on repeating familiar established forms. Lines are crooked, and angles of vertical strokes vary greatly – the lowercase “g” leans to the right compared to the lowercase “j” which leans to the left – as you would expect from a child’s handwriting. Unlike in many other fonts, the horizontal strokes in the uppercase “E” are different to their equivalents in the uppercase “F” lowercase “p” and “d” are not just the same forms rotated 180 degrees. This has been achieved.Ĭomic Sans was drawn up to imitate the style of hand-lettered comics. According to the Comic Neue website, it was the weirdness of Comic Sans that Comic Neue tries to fix, its “squashed, wonky, and weird glyphs”. How has the worldwide misuse, especially by non-designers, been addressed in the new release of Comic Neue? It seems it hasn’t. This misuse in wrong contexts, together with the font’s ubiquity enlarging the scale of the problem, is probably the main reason behind the worldwide hatred. When so widely used outside this context – in the announcement of Higgs Boson particle discovery say, or Pope Benedict’s resignation letter in the Vatican’s online photo album – the mismatch between the literal meaning of a text’s message and the font’s added meaning of infantility and fun creates a new meaning of immaturity, unprofessionalism, or pretentiousness. Comic Sans is the funny, friendly, cute, cheer-up, informal, good-for-a-child’s-birthday-party-invite font.
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