To paraphrase Jane Austen, it’s much more rational, but it’s rather less like Comic Sans. But we can’t help thinking that stripping Comic Sans of its curliecues and squiggly parts isn’t very, well, comic. “The squashed, wonky, and weird glyphs of Comic Sans have been beaten into shape while maintaining the honesty that made Comic Sans so popular,” Rozynski wrote on his website. In fact, this new font barely even looks like something I’d expect to find in a Golden Book. No longer does the letter ‘s’ look quite so much like a friendly snake. No longer does the lowercase ‘t’ resemble an upright umbrella with the top missing. But while Comic Neue undoubtedly gives a sophisticated touch to many of Comic Sans’ quirks, it also seems to have done away with most of them altogether. The weight distribution is more even, the strokes are less wobbly, and the quirks (such as the crossbar on the uppercase A jutting out) are more pronounced and intentional looking.”Īs you can see from the before/after above, the new typeface looks strikingly sophisticated next to the old one. As the Daily Dot’s resident font expert Walter Coots puts it, “The new version has better continuity throughout the whole thing. Rozynski, an Australian digital designer living in Japan, set out to “fix the weirdness” of Comic Sans by injecting it with a less, well, comic flavor he told Creative Review earlier today. Now, Rozynski wants to change the world by removing the stigma-and that uneven squiggly look-from Comic Sans.
And no font is more egregious, more outlandish, more universally notorious, than the storied Comic Sans. Their annoyingly wide kernings show up at the most inappropriate times.
Their bubbly, bold glyphs and ligatures mock us from the pages of advertisements, the blurbs of Internet memes, and the tomes of self-publishing.
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For too long we’ve been mired in a world full of annoyingly quirky typefaces.
Craig Rozynski wants to make our lives better.
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