The parallels to comic sans are so obvious that first thing I did in the article is Ctrl-F "comic", because my first thought was: how much further has this taken the concept.
The distribution of mentions of Comic Sans in the article is revealing: there are a bunch of mentions at around the 30% mark (in which they acknowledge the obvious heritage), and then barely after that. This font really does go further. Beautiful!
the formality slider (play with it at the google fonts page linked in the article[0]) is genuinely one of the coolest uses of a variable font axis i've seen in recent memory. it feels like we're witnessing the slow and steady vindication of metafont.
The parallels to comic sans are so obvious that first thing I did in the article is Ctrl-F "comic", because my first thought was: how much further has this taken the concept.
The distribution of mentions of Comic Sans in the article is revealing: there are a bunch of mentions at around the 30% mark (in which they acknowledge the obvious heritage), and then barely after that. This font really does go further. Beautiful!
the formality slider (play with it at the google fonts page linked in the article[0]) is genuinely one of the coolest uses of a variable font axis i've seen in recent memory. it feels like we're witnessing the slow and steady vindication of metafont.
[0] https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Shantell+Sans
Wow somehow I've never come across this font, and I've done a lot with comic-sans-adjacent fonts.
This font, however, is by far the most beautiful one I've encountered yet.
gorgeous piece of human-computer engineering art.
superb.
totally usable in contexts where comic sans might be seen as kind of mocking.
Dyslexic daughter gave a big thumbs up, she definitely prefers this to Roboto in the example.
I like it! Somehow balances playfulness and readability. Thanks for sharing.