Amy Lesko: Tasty Type

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Okay so lets throw in a little curve ball here and talk about Comic Sans’ younger and more elegant sibling

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Alphabet image from: identifont.com

We all go on about Comic Sans and how shit it is, and we also go on about the irony of how shit it is, and quiet frankly, I’m bored of seeing it let alone talking about it. Comic Sans is perfect for a primary schools “don’t run in the halls!” sign, but I really don’t want to find it placed with Lucida Handwriting on my local pubs menu, geez. The design world knows the real struggle. To combat the invasion of the cheeky C-Sans, an Australian named Craig Rozynski gave birth to “Comic Neue” in 2014. He quotes “Comic Neue aspires to be the casual script choice for everyone including the typographically savvy”, with a much more atheistically pleasing font on our hands, we can only hope that my local pub will update its menu to something a tad better, I mean it’s even free!

“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.” - Craig Rozynski

Now to the nitty-gritty (sorta) Comic Neue is a casual script typeface, in the same category as Comic Sans. It also has a variation being Comic Neue Angular, which features sharp angular terminals as opposed to round. The font also comes in three weights and an oblique (basically a fake italic)