Comic Neue

Try Comic Neue

Weights and styles

• Light 300Comic Neue Light Light Italic
• Regular 400Comic Neue Regular Italic
• Bold 700Comic Neue Bold Bold Italic

About Comic Neue

Comic Neue is a casual typeface in the manner of comic-book lettering. Its official description presents it as a reinterpretation of a well-known older comic face in which the squashed and irregular glyphs were regularised while the informal character was kept. In the specimen the strokes are monoline with round ends, the a and g are single-storey, the capitals are plain and the crossbar of the A overshoots its left stem. Craig Rozynski, who is based in Australia and Japan, started the project; Google Fonts also credits Hrant Papazian. The family has six static styles: Light 300, Regular 400 and Bold 700, with an italic for each. It contains 334 glyphs in the Latin subset only. Comic Neue was added to Google Fonts in 2020 and is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Comic Neue works

Classroom worksheets

Single-storey a and g match the shapes children are taught to write, and Light, Regular and Bold separate instructions from answers.

Informal notices and flyers

Regularised letter shapes keep a casual notice tidy enough for a printed sign.

Comic speech balloons

Bold and the italics supply the emphasis that comic dialogue relies on.

Slides for young audiences

Round-ended monoline strokes hold up when projected, and six styles give room for a simple hierarchy.

Glyphs

Language support

The family contains the core letters these languages are written with:

• English
• French
• German
• Spanish
• Portuguese
• Italian
• Dutch
• Swedish
• Norwegian
• Danish
• Finnish
• Icelandic
• Catalan
• Polish
• Czech
• Slovak
• Hungarian
• Croatian
• Slovenian
• Estonian

Character sets found in the files: latin, latin-ext. The language list is a check of required letters against the font, not a promise of typographic quality in each language.

License

Fonts that pair with Comic Neue

Suggestions come from simple rules on the records: a contrasting classification and enough weights to carry body text. They are a starting point, not a verdict.

Use Comic Neue on the web

Download the family and host the files on your own site, then declare them in CSS. Please do not link to the files on trendhub.net: preview files here are subsets and their addresses change.

@font-face {
  font-family: "Comic Neue";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/ComicNeue-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Comic Neue";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/ComicNeue-BoldItalic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Comic Neue";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/ComicNeue-Italic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Comic Neue";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/ComicNeue-Light.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 300;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
/* …and 2 more files in the package, declared the same way */

body {
  font-family: "Comic Neue", cursive;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Comic Neue with this markup:

<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com">
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin>
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Comic+Neue:ital,wght@0,300;0,400;0,700;1,300;1,400;1,700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Latin subset only

Letters for Turkish, Romanian, Lithuanian and Latvian are not complete, and there is no Cyrillic, Greek or Vietnamese.

A gap between 400 and 700

The weights are Light, Regular and Bold; there is no Medium or SemiBold.

Six static files

Comic Neue is not a variable font.

FAQs

Collections with Comic Neue

• Fonts for children and early readers

  Schoolbook sans-serifs, print handwriting and rounded display faces for worksheets, picture books and classroom materials.

• Comic book and cartoon lettering fonts

  Hand-lettered comic dialogue faces, sound-effect capitals and bouncy cartoon titles for comics, kids' media and humorous graphics.

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