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'''Comic Neue''' is a casual [[script typeface]] released in 2014. It was designed by Craig Rozynski with Hrant Papazian as a more modern, refined version of the ubiquitous, but often criticized typeface, [[Comic Sans]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://comicneue.com/|title=Get Comic Neue|website=comicneue.com|access-date=2020-04-06}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-11582548|title=What's so wrong with Comic Sans?|date=2010-10-20|work=BBC News|access-date=2020-04-06|language=en-GB}}</ref>
'''Comic Neue''' is a casual [[script typeface]] released in 2014. It was designed by Craig Rozynski with Hrant Papazian as a more modern, refined version of the ubiquitous, but often criticized typeface [[Comic Sans]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://comicneue.com/|title=Get Comic Neue|website=comicneue.com|access-date=6 April 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-11582548|title=What's so wrong with Comic Sans?|date=20 October 2010|work=BBC News|access-date=6 April 2020|language=en-GB}}</ref>


==Design==
==Design==
[[File:Comic Neue and Comic Sans comparison (DYK).svg|thumb|Comparison of Comic Sans and Comic Neue; in creating the new typeface, Rozynski made the strokes straighter and more regular]]
[[File:Comic Neue and Comic Sans comparison (DYK).svg|thumb|Comparison of Comic Sans and Comic Neue; in creating the new typeface, Rozynski made the strokes straighter and more regular.]]
Comic Neue was designed by Craig Rozynski, an Australian graphic designer living in Japan, who wanted to create an informal script typeface similar to the ubiquitous [[Microsoft]] font [[Comic Sans]], which was created by [[Vincent Connare]] in the 1990s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://time.com/54228/comic-sans/|date=8 April 2014|first=Harry|last=McCracken|title=Meet Comic Neue, a Comic Sans-like Typeface Without a Comic Sans-like Reputation|work=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]|accessdate=31 July 2014}}</ref><ref name=indie>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/meet-comic-sans-successor-comic-neue-9246407.html|title=Meet Comic Sans' successor: Comic Neue|first=James|last=Vincent|date=8 April 2014|work=[[The Independent]]|accessdate=31 July 2014}}</ref> Comic Sans has been called "the world's most reviled typeface";<ref name=fast>{{cite web|url=http://www.fastcodesign.com/3028800/comic-sans-grows-up-with-comic-neue|title=Comic Sans Gets A Makeover|first=John|last=Brownlee|work=[[Fast Company (magazine)|Co.Design]]|date=8 April 2014|accessdate=31 July 2014}}</ref> Rozynski aimed to update Comic Sans to be more suitable to the 2010s and more widely acceptable, including "the typographically savvy".<ref name=indie/> Rozynski based his design on the original glyphs of Comic Sans and "beat [them] into shape" to create a new typeface.<ref name=indie/> He wanted to refine the original letter forms to make them more sophisticated, to create "a version [of the original] you couldn't easily fault", while "maintaining the honesty that made Comic Sans so popular".<ref name=indie/><ref name=fast/><ref name=creat>{{cite web|url=http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2014/april/comic-neue|title=The neue Comic Sans|work=[[Creative Review]]|first=Mark|last=Sinclair|date=7 April 2014|accessdate=31 July 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140625112608/http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2014/april/comic-neue|archive-date=25 June 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>
Comic Neue was designed by Craig Rozynski, an Australian graphic designer living in Japan, who wanted to create an informal script typeface similar to the controversial [[Microsoft]] font [[Comic Sans]] created by [[Vincent Connare]] in the 1990s.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://time.com/54228/comic-sans/|date=8 April 2014|first=Harry|last=McCracken|title=Meet Comic Neue, a Comic Sans-like Typeface Without a Comic Sans-like Reputation|magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]|access-date=31 July 2014}}</ref><ref name=indie>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/meet-comic-sans-successor-comic-neue-9246407.html|title=Meet Comic Sans' successor: Comic Neue|first=James|last=Vincent|date=8 April 2014|work=[[The Independent]]|accessdate=31 July 2014}}</ref> Comic Sans has been called "the world's most reviled typeface,"<ref name=fast>{{cite web|url=http://www.fastcodesign.com/3028800/comic-sans-grows-up-with-comic-neue|title=Comic Sans Gets A Makeover|first=John|last=Brownlee|work=[[Fast Company (magazine)|Co.Design]]|date=8 April 2014|accessdate=31 July 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220407074307/https://www.fastcompany.com/3028800/comic-sans-grows-up-with-comic-neue |archive-date=7 April 2022}}</ref> and Rozynski aimed to update it to be more suitable to the modern generation and more widely acceptable, including "the typographically savvy."<ref name=indie/> He based his design on the original glyphs of Comic Sans—"beating them into shape", as he put it, to create the new typeface.<ref name=indie/> He wanted to refine the original letter forms to make them more sophisticated, to create "a version [of the original] you couldn't easily fault", while "maintaining the honesty that made Comic Sans so popular."<ref name=indie/><ref name=fast/><ref name=creat>{{cite web|url=http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2014/april/comic-neue|title=The neue Comic Sans|work=[[Creative Review]]|first=Mark|last=Sinclair|date=7 April 2014|accessdate=31 July 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140625112608/http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2014/april/comic-neue|archive-date=25 June 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>


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.<ref name=macleans>{{cite web|url=http://www.macleans.ca/culture/a-qa-with-the-man-who-wants-to-fix-comic-sans/|first=Adrian|last=Lee|date=11 April 2014|title=The man who wants to fix Comic Sans|work=[[Maclean's]]|accessdate=31 July 2014}}</ref> He planned the typeface as a joke, but he began to take it seriously,<ref name=creat/> 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.<ref name=macleans/><ref name=main>{{cite web|url=http://comicneue.com/|title=Comic Neue|publisher=ComicNeue.com|accessdate=31 July 2014}}</ref> The original typeface can be downloaded for free download from its official website, but Rozynski has suggested that he may sell future, more complete releases.<ref name=creat/> He has said he hoped a [[type foundry]] or online type library such as [[Adobe Systems|Adobe]]'s TypeKit<ref name=macleans/> would pick it up.
When he first had the idea to "save" Comic Sans, Rozynski expected the project would take a month to complete; it took three years.<ref name=macleans>{{cite web|url=http://www.macleans.ca/culture/a-qa-with-the-man-who-wants-to-fix-comic-sans/|first=Adrian|last=Lee|date=11 April 2014|title=The man who wants to fix Comic Sans|work=[[Maclean's]]|accessdate=31 July 2014}}</ref> He planned the typeface as a joke, but he soon began to take it seriously,<ref name=creat/> commissioning Hrant Papazian of The MicroFoundry for 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.<ref name=macleans/><ref name=main>{{cite web|url=http://comicneue.com/|title=Comic Neue|publisher=ComicNeue.com|accessdate=31 July 2014}}</ref> The original typeface can be downloaded for free from its official website, but Rozynski has suggested that he may sell future, more complete releases.<ref name=creat/> He has said he hoped a [[type foundry]] or online type library such as [[Adobe Systems|Adobe]]'s TypeKit<ref name=macleans/> would pick it up.


==Variants==
==Variants==
The typeface was originally released in two variants: Comic Neue and Comic Neue Angular. In the latter, the rounded [[Stroke ending (typography)|terminals]] ending each stroke are made angular.<ref name=fast/><ref name=cnet>{{cite web|url=http://www.cnet.com/au/news/comic-neue-comic-sans-typeface-for-grown-ups/|title=Comic Neue: Comic Sans typeface for grown-ups|date=10 April 2014|first=Amanda|last=Kooser|work=[[CNET]]|accessdate=31 July 2014}}</ref> Rozynski claims that the angular version was "a happy accident".<ref name=creat/> Both variants include bold, regular, and light weights, and each weight is available in [[Roman type|roman]] and [[Italic type|italic]] fonts.<ref name=main/>
[[File:Comparison of variants of font Comic Neue with Comic Sans and Komika.svg|thumb|upright=1.5|Top: ''Comic Neue'' and ''Comic Neue Angular''; regular; center: as above, [[Bold (typography)|bold]]; followed by: ''[[Comic Sans]]'', regular, and ''Komika Text'', a font designed for [[comic book]]s]]
The typeface was released in two variants: Comic Neue and Comic Neue Angular. In the latter, the rounded [[Stroke ending|terminals]] ending each stroke are made angular.<ref name=fast/><ref name=cnet>{{cite web|url=http://www.cnet.com/au/news/comic-neue-comic-sans-typeface-for-grown-ups/|title=Comic Neue: Comic Sans typeface for grown-ups|date=10 April 2014|first=Amanda|last=Kooser|work=[[CNET]]|accessdate=31 July 2014}}</ref> Rozynski claims that the angular version was "a happy accident".<ref name=creat/> Both variants include bold, regular, and light weights, and each weight is available in [[Roman type|roman]] and [[Italic type|italic]] fonts.<ref name=main/>


The current (as of December 2022) release 2.51 contains letters for most European languages which use the Latin script.
Shortly after the initial release, plans were announced to develop characters to support other European languages.<ref name=macleans/><!--has this happened yet?-->


==Response==
==Reception==
Commentary on the typeface has been mostly positive.
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Commentary on the typeface has been mostly positive. ''[[Fast Company (magazine)|Co.Design]]''{{'s}} John Brownlee felt that Comic Neue succeeded in refining Comic Sans while remaining casual, writing: "If Comic Sans resembles the handwriting of a 10-year-old with excellent penmanship, Comic Neue is the block lettering of that same kid as a high school senior."<ref name=fast/> Amanda Kooser of [[CNET]] described Comic Neue as "Comic Sans' much more attractive and worldly brother" and opined that the new typeface had successfully redeemed the "much-maligned" original.<ref name=cnet/> ''[[The Washington Post]]'' reporter Caitlin Dewey also felt that Comic Neue was an improvement on the original typeface and made Comic Sans "cool again".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/wp/2014/04/07/this-designer-just-made-comic-sans-the-internets-most-hated-font-cool-again/|title=This designer just made Comic Sans, the Internet’s most hated font, cool again|first=Caitlin|last=Dewey|work=[[The Washington Post]]|date=7 April 2014|accessdate=31 July 2014}}</ref> Tyler McCarthy of ''[[The Huffington Post]]'' simply referred to Comic Neue as "a slightly less horrible version of Comic Sans",<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/07/comic-sans-comic-neue_n_5107040.html|title=Someone Created A Slightly Less Horrible Version Of Comic Sans|first=Tyler|last=McCarthy|work=[[The Huffington Post]]|accessdate=31 July 2014|date=7 April 2014}}</ref> while Jacob Kastrenakes described it in ''[[The Verge]]'' as "a stylishly thin yet still playfully curly font that's generally much nicer to read than Comic Sans".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theverge.com/2014/4/7/5590916/comic-neue-remakes-comic-sans-into-thin-modern-font|title=Meet the illegitimate child of Comic Sans|first=Jacob|last=Kastrenakes|work=[[The Verge]]|accessdate=31 July 2014|date=7 April 2014}}</ref>
* ''[[Fast Company (magazine)|Co.Design]]''{{'s}} John Brownlee felt that Comic Neue succeeded in refining Comic Sans while retaining its casual style: "If Comic Sans resembles the handwriting of a 10-year-old with excellent penmanship, Comic Neue is the block lettering of that same kid as a high school senior."<ref name=fast/>
* Amanda Kooser of [[CNET]] described Comic Neue as "Comic Sans' much more attractive and worldly brother" and opined that the new typeface had successfully redeemed the "much-maligned" original.<ref name=cnet/>
* ''[[The Washington Post]]'' reporter Caitlin Dewey also felt that Comic Neue was an improvement on the original typeface and made Comic Sans "cool again".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/wp/2014/04/07/this-designer-just-made-comic-sans-the-internets-most-hated-font-cool-again/|title=This designer just made Comic Sans, the Internet's most hated font, cool again|first=Caitlin|last=Dewey|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=7 April 2014|accessdate=31 July 2014}}</ref>
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* Tyler McCarthy of ''[[The Huffington Post]]'' simply referred to Comic Neue as "a slightly less horrible version of Comic Sans",<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/07/comic-sans-comic-neue_n_5107040.html|title=Someone Created A Slightly Less Horrible Version Of Comic Sans|first=Tyler|last=McCarthy|work=[[The Huffington Post]]|accessdate=31 July 2014|date=7 April 2014}}</ref> while Jacob Kastrenakes described it in ''[[The Verge]]'' as "a stylishly thin yet still playfully curly font that's generally much nicer to read than Comic Sans".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theverge.com/2014/4/7/5590916/comic-neue-remakes-comic-sans-into-thin-modern-font|title=Meet the illegitimate child of Comic Sans|first=Jacob|last=Kastrenakes|work=[[The Verge]]|accessdate=31 July 2014|date=7 April 2014}}</ref>


On the other hand, some people have criticized the font for keeping the original's goofy, amateurish nature.
On the other hand, comic book writer [[Mark Evanier]] said that the typeface was an improvement on Comic Sans, but that it still did not meet the standards of a professional cartoonist. He said the typeface worked well used in upper and lower case together, but not when used in [[all caps]], which was how comic books were typically lettered.<ref name=Evanier>{{cite web|url=http://www.newsfromme.com/2014/04/08/face/|title=That Face!|first=Mark|last=Evanier|date=8 April 2014|publisher=NewsFromMe.com|accessdate=31 July 2014}}</ref> Vincent Connare, the original designer of Comic Sans, thought that Comic Neue was not casual enough.<ref name=indie/> Rozynski has noted that most criticism of the typeface came from [[type designer]]s rather than laypeople.<ref name=macleans/>
* Comic book writer [[Mark Evanier]] said that while the typeface was an improvement on Comic Sans, it still did not meet the standards of a professional cartoonist. He said the typeface worked well used in upper and lower case together, but not when used in [[all caps]], which was how comic books were typically lettered.<ref name=Evanier>{{cite web|url=http://www.newsfromme.com/2014/04/08/face/|title=That Face!|first=Mark|last=Evanier|date=8 April 2014|publisher=NewsFromMe.com|accessdate=31 July 2014}}</ref>
* [[Tobias Frere-Jones]] observed in ''[[Der Spiegel]]'': ''"''This new design seems indecisive to me: the capital E is perfectly straight and upright like an engineering drawing, while the lowercase c is still loose and asymmetrical."<ref>{{cite web|access-date=31 December 2022|author=Ole Reißmann|date=9 April 2014|language=de|title=Ersatz für die gehasste Comic Sans|url=https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/comic-sans-bekommt-mit-comic-neue-eine-alternative-a-963304.html|website=[[Der Spiegel]]}}<!-- auto-translated by Module:CS1 translator --></ref>
* Vincent Connare, Comic Sans' original designer, thought that Comic Neue was not casual enough.<ref name=indie/>
Rozynski has noted that most criticism of the typeface came from [[type designer]]s rather than laypeople.<ref name=macleans/>


==References==
==References==
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==External links==
==External links==

Latest revision as of 04:17, 17 November 2024

Comic Neue
CategoryScript
Designer(s)Craig Rozynski with Hrant Papazian
Date releasedApril 2014
LicenseSIL OFL
Design based onComic Sans
VariationsComic Neue Angular
Websitegithub.com/crozynski/comicneue

Comic Neue is a casual script typeface released in 2014. It was designed by Craig Rozynski with Hrant Papazian as a more modern, refined version of the ubiquitous, but often criticized typeface Comic Sans.[1][2]

Design

[edit]
Comparison of Comic Sans and Comic Neue; in creating the new typeface, Rozynski made the strokes straighter and more regular.

Comic Neue was designed by Craig Rozynski, an Australian graphic designer living in Japan, who wanted to create an informal script typeface similar to the controversial Microsoft font Comic Sans created by Vincent Connare in the 1990s.[3][4] Comic Sans has been called "the world's most reviled typeface,"[5] and Rozynski aimed to update it to be more suitable to the modern generation and more widely acceptable, including "the typographically savvy."[4] He based his design on the original glyphs of Comic Sans—"beating them into shape", as he put it, to create the new typeface.[4] He wanted to refine the original letter forms to make them more sophisticated, to create "a version [of the original] you couldn't easily fault", while "maintaining the honesty that made Comic Sans so popular."[4][5][6]

When he first had the idea to "save" Comic Sans, Rozynski expected the project would take a month to complete; it took three years.[7] He planned the typeface as a joke, but he soon began to take it seriously,[6] commissioning Hrant Papazian of The MicroFoundry for 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.[7][8] The original typeface can be downloaded for free from its official website, but Rozynski has suggested that he may sell future, more complete releases.[6] He has said he hoped a type foundry or online type library such as Adobe's TypeKit[7] would pick it up.

Variants

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Top: Comic Neue and Comic Neue Angular; regular; center: as above, bold; followed by: Comic Sans, regular, and Komika Text, a font designed for comic books

The typeface was released in two variants: Comic Neue and Comic Neue Angular. In the latter, the rounded terminals ending each stroke are made angular.[5][9] Rozynski claims that the angular version was "a happy accident".[6] Both variants include bold, regular, and light weights, and each weight is available in roman and italic fonts.[8]

The current (as of December 2022) release 2.51 contains letters for most European languages which use the Latin script.

Reception

[edit]

Commentary on the typeface has been mostly positive.

  • Co.Design's John Brownlee felt that Comic Neue succeeded in refining Comic Sans while retaining its casual style: "If Comic Sans resembles the handwriting of a 10-year-old with excellent penmanship, Comic Neue is the block lettering of that same kid as a high school senior."[5]
  • Amanda Kooser of CNET described Comic Neue as "Comic Sans' much more attractive and worldly brother" and opined that the new typeface had successfully redeemed the "much-maligned" original.[9]
  • The Washington Post reporter Caitlin Dewey also felt that Comic Neue was an improvement on the original typeface and made Comic Sans "cool again".[10]
  • Tyler McCarthy of The Huffington Post simply referred to Comic Neue as "a slightly less horrible version of Comic Sans",[11] while Jacob Kastrenakes described it in The Verge as "a stylishly thin yet still playfully curly font that's generally much nicer to read than Comic Sans".[12]

On the other hand, some people have criticized the font for keeping the original's goofy, amateurish nature.

  • Comic book writer Mark Evanier said that while the typeface was an improvement on Comic Sans, it still did not meet the standards of a professional cartoonist. He said the typeface worked well used in upper and lower case together, but not when used in all caps, which was how comic books were typically lettered.[13]
  • Tobias Frere-Jones observed in Der Spiegel: "This new design seems indecisive to me: the capital E is perfectly straight and upright like an engineering drawing, while the lowercase c is still loose and asymmetrical."[14]
  • Vincent Connare, Comic Sans' original designer, thought that Comic Neue was not casual enough.[4]

Rozynski has noted that most criticism of the typeface came from type designers rather than laypeople.[7]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ "Get Comic Neue". comicneue.com. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
  2. ^ "What's so wrong with Comic Sans?". BBC News. 20 October 2010. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
  3. ^ McCracken, Harry (8 April 2014). "Meet Comic Neue, a Comic Sans-like Typeface Without a Comic Sans-like Reputation". Time. Retrieved 31 July 2014.
  4. ^ a b c d e Vincent, James (8 April 2014). "Meet Comic Sans' successor: Comic Neue". The Independent. Retrieved 31 July 2014.
  5. ^ a b c d Brownlee, John (8 April 2014). "Comic Sans Gets A Makeover". Co.Design. Archived from the original on 7 April 2022. Retrieved 31 July 2014.
  6. ^ a b c d Sinclair, Mark (7 April 2014). "The neue Comic Sans". Creative Review. Archived from the original on 25 June 2014. Retrieved 31 July 2014.
  7. ^ a b c d Lee, Adrian (11 April 2014). "The man who wants to fix Comic Sans". Maclean's. Retrieved 31 July 2014.
  8. ^ a b "Comic Neue". ComicNeue.com. Retrieved 31 July 2014.
  9. ^ a b Kooser, Amanda (10 April 2014). "Comic Neue: Comic Sans typeface for grown-ups". CNET. Retrieved 31 July 2014.
  10. ^ Dewey, Caitlin (7 April 2014). "This designer just made Comic Sans, the Internet's most hated font, cool again". The Washington Post. Retrieved 31 July 2014.
  11. ^ McCarthy, Tyler (7 April 2014). "Someone Created A Slightly Less Horrible Version Of Comic Sans". The Huffington Post. Retrieved 31 July 2014.
  12. ^ Kastrenakes, Jacob (7 April 2014). "Meet the illegitimate child of Comic Sans". The Verge. Retrieved 31 July 2014.
  13. ^ Evanier, Mark (8 April 2014). "That Face!". NewsFromMe.com. Retrieved 31 July 2014.
  14. ^ Ole Reißmann (9 April 2014). "Ersatz für die gehasste Comic Sans". Der Spiegel (in German). Retrieved 31 December 2022.
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