comicneue.comLet's be clear here: Comic Sans should have died with AIM profiles and away messages. Are those still a thing, by the way? Anyway, every time someone uses Comic Sans in any legitimate setting (at work, for a research paper), an angel loses its wings. And do you know how they find out they're losing their wings? With a memo written in Comic Sans, just to add insult to the injury.
So since it's a widely-known fact that no one should be using Comic Sans any more, Australian Graphic designer Craig Rozynski has developed a new Comic Sans-esque font: Comic Neue.
"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," he writes on his site. "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."
So basically this font is for those who are still teenagers on the inside, but professionals on the outside. It's casual enough to seem breezy, but not so sloppy that you'll be fired if you dare use it as an email signature font.
You're not using Comic Sans as the font for your email signature, are you?
Well, if you are, at least now there's a better option if you just don't see yourself as a Times New Roman, Garamond or Calibri kind of person. Personally, we're all about Georgia.
But we digress. Check out the examples of the new font above, in both Comic Neue and Comic Neue Angular. And obviously there's a bold, light and oblique version to choose from. So many options!
If you're into it, you can download Comic Neue for free, but probably for a limited time.
Our final piece of evidence that no one should be using Comic Sans ever, courtesy of Parks and Recreation's Jerry Gergich, aka Garry Gergich, aka Larry Gengurch:
Damn it, Jerry.
What do you think of the "new" Comic Sans? Is it a font you would consider using in a professional setting? Or is it still too, you know, Comic Sans-y for your liking?