![]() 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 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. 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 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. It was released in April 2014 and a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign successfully raised $10,000 to expand the typeface to support non-English languages. The original typeface can be downloaded for free from its official website, but Rozynski has suggested that he may sell future, more complete releases. He has said he hoped a type foundry or online type library such as Adobe's TypeKit would pick it up. The typeface was originally released in two variants: Comic Neue and Comic Neue Angular. In the latter, the rounded terminals ending each stroke are made angular. ![]() Rozynski claims that the angular version was "a happy accident". Both variants include bold, regular, and light weights, and each weight is available in roman and italic fonts. Shortly after the initial release, plans were announced to develop characters to support other European languages. Response Ĭommentary on the typeface has been mostly positive.
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