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The ridiculed Comic Sans typeface gets its dignity back with Comic Neue

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Craig Rozynski is an Australian designer who took upon himself to dignify the most ridiculed and beleaguered typeface in the world: Comic Sans. He turned the horrible typeface into an actually attractive typeface: Comic Neue. It’s a miracle.

Here’s the Comic Neue Regular font—simple and clean, despite maintaining its primary school feel:

And the Comic Neue Angular Bold font, which I actually like.

Rozynski asked Vincent Connare—the designer for Comic Sans, which was released in 1994 by Microsoft as part of Windows 95—for his opinion:

https://twitter.com/embed/status/453118035315138560

You can get Comic Neue for free here.


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