![]() Since it’s free, it has the potential to get around… but at least for now, it’s not shipping with a popular operating system. It will be interesting to see how Comic Neue fares. ![]() If you are as irked, you’ll appreciate what can happen to any typeface when it’s used without thought, and way too often.įor one last dose of irony, this Wall Street Journal article reports that Comic Sans creator, Vincent Connare, produced his design in response to overuse of Times New Roman. ![]() movie trailers, Discovery Channel and Cartoon Network logos, every other movie poster, and Wendy’s fast food to-go bags. Our collective resentment - which extends well past the design community - has more to do with its misuse, which is why you may want to employ this new incarnation with restraint.Ĭomic Sans isn’t the only typeface open to misuse of course is anybody else feeling a growing unease about the proliferating use of otherwise-exquisite Gotham? It’s been spotted on U.S. The complete family is free to download right now.Īs much as we love to rip poor Comic Sans, one of its greatest aesthetic offenses has little to do with its design. With light, regular, and bold weights, as well obliques, there are currently a total of twelve faces. Rozynski’s produced two variants, the second being Comic Neue Angular, which has angular terminals instead of round. But Rosynski has succeeded at keeping Comic Neue friendly and approachable. His first type design project, Rozynski’s Comic Neue loses the pretence of unevenness that the original Comic Sans employed. Craig Rozynski may have taken on the mother of all type design challenges with his creation Comic Neue a revival of the world’s most hated typeface.
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