Comic Sans reborn?

[angelize]

I came across this and found it interesting!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...nt-cool-again/

And the new font can be downloaded for free here
http://comicneue.com/

Comic Neue is much cleaner than comic sans and the angular version is rather nice too, so what do you think? You can install the true type files and Xara programs will embed them.

[handrawn]

interesting find

can't be any worse

[an here am I installing windows 98SE in vmplayer so I can run a legacy cutout animation program that refuses to install in wndows 8 whatever the compatibility/admin settings - ah could be the 90's all over again..]

[wizard509]

I don't understand why comic sans is so hated. I like it (so what does that say about me?) but am switching anyway.

[handrawn]

It is very loosely made, some might even say sloppy [to be fair it was never intended to be a mainstream font that 'just happened'], and so very difficult if not impossible to kern/track properly, and this shows...if you are sensitive to such things, no-one says you have to be, but designers and letterers usually are

[angelize]

Comic sans also became badly misused. It was a fair font for a casual childlike piece but at one point it was being used for everything and anything.

But what about the Neue version? Does anyone have an opinion on how you might use it? Do you think the changes to the basic structure of the font have improved it?

[stygg2003]

Don't know why everybody hates it, I like it and the new

Stygg

[wizard509]

Looks like Stygg and I are in agreement on this.

EDIT: Interesting points handrawn. Thanks.

[handrawn]

thing is, in certain areas - comics [as in graphic novels] for example, comic sans has 'cliché' status for a lot of the professionals - I don't hate it, but I'd hate to have to use it [for certain things where I know it will look stereotypical\stale and perhaps even amateurish]

[stygg2003]

I totally agree handrawn, if I recieve a letter say from my solicitor it will be 9 out of 10 times - Times New Roman 12pt, which is fine, we expect it to look professional and buisness like but if we recieved the same letter in Comic Sans, we'd probaly think this guys a joker totally un-professional and I have no doubt you would'nt trust him to run your affairs. By the same rule when we see an advert such as "we must be mad selling at these prices" it would not look right or have the same impact in Times New Roman but in Comic Sans or the like totally acceptable and suite the context of the advert. My point being there's a correct place and use for most fonts so why we hear people say they hate such and such a font baffles me. I think sometimes there's a type of snobbery or elitism about fonts and typography, most annoying, but all this is just my opinion

Stygg

[handrawn]

sure - get elitism everywhere... horses for courses...