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| Category | Script |
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| Designer(s) | Craig Rozynski with Hrant Papazian |
| Date released | April 2014 |
| License | SIL OFL |
| Design based on | Comic Sans |
| Variations | Comic Neue Angular |
| Website | comicneue |
Comic Neue is a casual script typeface released in 2014. It was designed by Craig Rozynski with Hrant Papazian as a more modern, refined version of the ubiquitous, but often criticized typeface Comic Sans. [1] [2]
Comic Neue was designed by Craig Rozynski, an Australian graphic designer living in Japan, who wanted to create an informal script typeface similar to the controversial Microsoft font Comic Sans created by Vincent Connare in the 1990s. [3] [4] Comic Sans has been called "the world's most reviled typeface," [5] and Rozynski aimed to update it to be more suitable to the modern generation and more widely acceptable, including "the typographically savvy." [4] He based his design on the original glyphs of Comic Sans—"beating them into shape", as he put it, to create the new typeface. [4] He wanted to refine the original letter forms to make them more sophisticated, to create "a version [of the original] you couldn't easily fault", while "maintaining the honesty that made Comic Sans so popular." [4] [5] [6]
When he first had the idea to "save" Comic Sans, Rozynski expected the project would take a month to complete; it took three years. [7] He planned the typeface as a joke, but he soon began to take it seriously, [6] commissioning Hrant Papazian of The MicroFoundry for improvements to outlines, spacing and kerning of all 12 fonts in the family. It was released in April 2014 and a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign successfully raised $10,000 to expand the typeface to support non-English languages. [7] [8] The original typeface can be downloaded for free from its official website, but Rozynski has suggested that he may sell future, more complete releases. [6] He has said he hoped a type foundry or online type library such as Adobe's TypeKit [7] would pick it up.
The typeface was released in two variants: Comic Neue and Comic Neue Angular. In the latter, the rounded terminals ending each stroke are made angular. [5] [9] Rozynski claims that the angular version was "a happy accident". [6] Both variants include bold, regular, and light weights, and each weight is available in roman and italic fonts. [8]
The current (as of December 2022) release 2.51 contains letters for most European languages which use the Latin script.
Commentary on the typeface has been mostly positive.
On the other hand, some people have criticized the font for keeping the original's goofy, amateurish nature.
Rozynski has noted that most criticism of the typeface came from type designers rather than laypeople. [7]
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