Drawn for the speech balloons of a cartoon dog in Microsoft Bob. It escaped onto every bake-sale flyer on earth, and some dyslexic readers find it easier to read than neater faces.
Download Comic Neue, free ↗Google FontsComic Sans itself is licensed. Comic Neue is the closest free face, free for personal and commercial work under the Open Font License.
01Set it yourself
Set in Comic NeueLoading the face
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02Put it to work
Your words from the specimen, set in Comic Neue in the formats a project actually needs, in the colours you picked above.
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We design identities, websites and campaigns for people who care how things feel. This is the paragraph your headline sits on, set in Comic Neue.
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Tip. Headline in Comic Neue, standing in for Comic Sans, body copy in Comic Neue. Copy the CSS from the specimen above and the headline is ready to paste into your site.
03Every character
AU+0041 · Comic Neue 700
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20pxThe quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog, 1234567890.
14pxThe quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog, 1234567890.
04The free stand-in: Comic Neue
Why Comic Neue. A deliberate cleanup of Comic Sans's casual script forms. Comic Sans itself is a licensed typeface, so everything on this page is set in Comic Neue, which is free to use on the web and in print.
Comic Neue, on its own. A tidied casual script: the friendliness of Comic Sans with the wobble taken out.
If Comic Sans is installed on your computer, an A/B key appears in the specimen above so you can compare the two.