Comic Sans wasn't designed to be the world's most ubiquitous casual typeface1. Comic Neue aspires to be the casual script choice for everyone including the typographically savvy.
The squashed, wonky, and weird glyphs of Comic Sans have been beaten into shape while maintaining the honesty that made Comic Sans so popular.
It's perfect as a display face, for marking up comments, and writing passive aggressive office memos.
There are two variants: Comic Neue and Comic Neue Angular, which features angular terminals rather than round. Both include light, regular, and bold weights, with oblique equivalents.
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
To use Comic Neue, simply install the OpenType (OTF) files on your system. To use in your online projects TTF, EOT, and WOFF files are also included, and a font.css file with @font-face rules makes implementation a copy and paste away. No attribution is required, Comic Neue is under an SIL Open Font License. See the read me files in the download or visit http://scripts.sil.org/OFL. The GitHub repo is here github.com/crozynski/comicneue.
Comic Neue v2.2: Added support for over 40 languages and improved metrics.
Comic Neue v2.3: Added support for Esperanto, low quotation marks, improved CSS. Big thanks to Brandon Schoech for creating this brilliant update.
Comic Neue v2.5: Updated to be compatible with the Google Fonts Library. Big thanks to Viviana Monsalve.
Comic Neue v2.51: Updated to improve web font files.
Comic Neue was launched in rough form on the 7th of April 2014. A month later it was launched as a Kickstarter project to fund expanding the font to support more than 40 languages. Technical aspects of the font were also greatly improved thanks to Hrant Papazian, owner of The MicroFoundry. The project was successfully funded on the 13 June 2014 thanks to the following backers:
Tobias Frere-Jones in spiegel.de
This Chrome, Firefox, Opera and IE user style sheet replaces any instances of Comic Sans MS font on a website with Comic Neue. View the installation instructions. Full credit to Jerzy Glowacki for creating it.