It’s a monospace font, so each letter or character takes up the same amount of space. The rounded rectangular shapes of JetBrains Mono is “made for the specific needs of developers,” according to its designers Philipp Nurullin and Konstantin Bulenkov. This typeface looks like code, and that makes sense: It takes inspiration from it. Comic Sans is considered a more legible font for dyslexic readers. Comic Neue’s child-like look could work nicely for younger audiences, but it could have practical benefits, too. The “squashed, wonky, and weird glyphs of Comic Sans have been beaten into shape,” Google writes, while maintaining the fun that make many love Comic Sans (and love to hate it). (Its own designer calls it the “ the Justin Bieber of fonts.”) Comic Neue is its more sophisticated sibling.
Google Fonts already has Comic Sans, one of the most widely mocked fonts on the Internet. Your next shared Doc is about to get a lot spicier. Here are five of the most exciting new typefaces, showcasing a range of styles, from an updated love-to-hate font to a canonical typeface mid-century modernist Massimo Vignelli himself favored. Last week, Google added 60 new fonts to its catalog of free licensed font families for you to choose from in Docs and Slides with a tweet that basically said, “these fonts are here now!” There wasn’t much detail as to why Google added the fonts, but for anyone who grew tired of the 30 or so default font options available previously, the new offerings will make it much easier to customize Google Docs and Slides.
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