Tuesday Jun 10

Comic Jens: no more excuses

Found this via ILT’s latest Sunday Type from font​blog.de:

Comic Jens mini specimen.

Comic Jens is a looser and more aes­thetic alter­na­tive to Comic Sans by Jens Kutilek. With a whole­some set of 303 char­ac­ters in regular and bold, all avail­able freely under a Cre­ative Commons license in Open­Type format no one has an excuse to use Comic Sans anymore.

Reds under the bed!
Character: Fraction

Check out the cute extra glyphs:

Characters: keyboard and UI elements
Characters: further cute extras

The font also takes advan­tage of Open­Type lig­a­ture fea­tures:

OpenType features: ligatures
Down­load it from the Inter­tubes today!

Sup­ported lan­guages include Alban­ian, Basque, Catalan, Cornish, Danish, Dutch, English, Eston­ian, Faroese, Finnish, French, Gali­cian, German, Greek, Ice­landic, Indone­sian, Irish, Italian, Malay, Manx, Nor­we­gian Bokmål, Nor­we­gian Nynorsk, Oromo, Por­tuguese, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish and Turkish.

Addendum

In ret­ro­spect I have to say that when setting body copy (even for only a poster) the follow-​through of the cross/strikes on the “f” and “t” come to irri­tate reading slightly, par­tic­u­larly notice­able in the bold weight.

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3 comments

  1. 1. NathanaelB
    Jun 10, 14:46

    Love it! Down­load­ing now …

  2. 2. Alex Hixon
    Jun 11, 17:44

    Looks great; awesome find!
    Love the extra glyphs, too.

  3. 3. Bryce
    Jun 12, 13:31

    Oh. My. God. That font is simply amazing.

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