On the other hand, some people have criticized the font for keeping the original's goofy, amateurish nature. Tyler McCarthy of The Huffington Post simply referred to Comic Neue as "a slightly less horrible version of Comic Sans", while Jacob Kastrenakes described it in The Verge as "a stylishly thin yet still playfully curly font that's generally much nicer to read than Comic Sans". The Washington Post reporter Caitlin Dewey also felt that Comic Neue was an improvement on the original typeface and made Comic Sans "cool again". Co.Design 's John Brownlee felt that Comic Neue succeeded in refining Comic Sans while remaining casual, writing: "If Comic Sans resembles the handwriting of a 10-year-old with excellent penmanship, Comic Neue is the block lettering of that same kid as a high school senior." Amanda Kooser of CNET described Comic Neue as "Comic Sans' much more attractive and worldly brother" and opined that the new typeface had successfully redeemed the "much-maligned" original. Response Ĭommentary on the typeface has been mostly positive. Shortly after the initial release, plans were announced to develop characters to support other European languages. Both variants include bold, regular, and light weights, and each weight is available in roman and italic fonts. Rozynski claims that the angular version was "a happy accident". In the latter, the rounded terminals ending each stroke are made angular. The typeface was originally released in two variants: Comic Neue and Comic Neue Angular. He has said he hoped a type foundry or online type library such as Adobe's TypeKit would pick it up.
#Comic neue text for free
The original typeface can be downloaded for free from its official website, but Rozynski has suggested that he may sell future, more complete releases. It was released in April 2014 and a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign successfully raised $10,000 to expand the typeface to support non-English languages. He planned the typeface as a joke, but he soon began to take it seriously, commissioning Hrant Papazian of The MicroFoundry to improvements to outlines, spacing, and kerning of all 12 fonts in the family. When he first had the idea to "save" Comic Sans, Rozynski thought that the project would take him a month to complete it actually took three years. He wanted to refine the original letter forms to make them more sophisticated, to create "a version you couldn't easily fault", while "maintaining the honesty that made Comic Sans so popular."
#Comic neue text update
Comic Sans has been called "the world's most reviled typeface," and Rozynski aimed to update Comic Sans to be more suitable to the modern generation and more widely acceptable, including "the typographically savvy." Rozynski based his design on the original glyphs of Comic Sans and have them "beaten into shape" to create a new typeface. Comparison of Comic Sans and Comic Neue in creating the new typeface, Rozynski made the strokes straighter and more regularĬomic 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, which was created by Vincent Connare in the 1990s.