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Open Comic

Open Comic captures organic, human warmth with flowing strokes that add personality to your designs.

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Handwritingby Arthur Reeder56% Accessible
Characters256
Glyphs307
Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Open Comic

01

Best Font Pairings for Open Comic

TypeSmith curates 4 expert font pairings for Open Comic, including combinations with Museum, Prefectura Free and Floraline.

Each pairing includes accessibility ratings, expert reasoning, and usage recommendations for web and print design.

Explore 4 Pairings for Open Comic
02

Test Open Comic Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Open Comic with any font combination in real-time, optimized for handwriting characteristics.

Adjust font sizes, weights, and see live typography specimens including editorial layouts, code editors, and UI components.

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Character Set

Open Comic Glyphs & Characters

Size48
Showing 62 of 187 charactersDouble-click to copy • Click for details
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

Type Scale

Display Sizes for Open Comic

Heading Level 1<h1>
64px
Bold
72px
Open Comic primary headline
Heading Level 2<h2>
48px
SemiBold
56px
Open Comic section heading
Heading Level 3<h3>
32px
Medium
40px
Open Comic subsection title
Heading Level 4<h4>
24px
Regular
32px
Open Comic content heading
Heading Level 5<h5>
18px
Regular
26px
Open Comic minor heading
Heading Level 6<h6>
14px
Medium
20px
Open Comic smallest heading
Font SizeWeightLine Height
Body Copy

Reading Text in Open Comic

TypeSmith provides optimized body text specifications for Open Comic, including recommended sizes, line heights, and letter spacing for long-form content. These settings ensure maximum readability across devices and screen sizes.

Open Comic demonstrates exceptional body text performance with balanced proportions and consistent stroke widths that enhance readability across paragraph lengths.

When setting Open Comic for body copy, TypeSmith recommends these optimized specifications. The carefully tuned metrics ensure comfortable reading at extended lengths while maintaining the typeface's distinctive character.

Open Comic small text sizes retain legibility through well-defined letterforms. Caption and footnote applications benefit from the font's clear x-height and open counters.

ElementWeightSizeLine HeightTrackingPreview
Body TextRegular16px24px0.5pxOpen Comic delivers excellent readability for body copy
ItalicizedRegular Italic16px24px0.5pxOpen Comic italic provides elegant emphasis
BoldBold16px24px0.5pxOpen Comic bold creates strong visual hierarchy
Small CapsRegular16px24px0.5pxOpen Comic typography specimen
Secondary TextMedium14px20px0.5pxOpen Comic typography specimen
.your-class { font-family: 'Open Comic'; }

Quick Start

How to Embed Open Comic in Your Project

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

<link href="https://fonts.bunny.net/css?family=Open+Comic:400,700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

@import url('https://fonts.bunny.net/css?family=Open+Comic:400,700&display=swap');

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Open Comic';
  src: url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Open+Comic:wght@400;700&display=swap');
  font-display: swap;
}

Implementation

Code Snippets for Open Comic

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

1.my-text {
2 font-family: 'Open Comic', sans-serif;
3 font-weight: 400;
4}

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

1$font-primary: 'Open Comic', sans-serif;
2
3.my-text {
4 font-family: $font-primary;
5}

Tailwind CSS

config

Configure once, apply with utility classes.

1// tailwind.config.js
2module.exports = {
3 theme: {
4 extend: {
5 fontFamily: {
6 'open-comic': ['Open Comic', 'sans-serif'],
7 },
8 },
9 },
10}
11
12// Usage in HTML
13<p class="font-open-comic">Your text here</p>

About

Open Comic: A Closer Look

Arthur Reeder
Handwriting
Open Source

Open Comic font is a handwriting typeface with cartoon comic funny letterforms that welcome with open, accessible personality. Each character displays inclusive shapes with open comic character suggesting accessible humor and welcoming playfulness. This cartoon comic funny style suits accessible content, open branding, and designs requiring typography with welcoming comic character. The open comic reference emphasizes accessibility. For designers creating accessible content, Open Comic delivers appropriate welcoming humor. Complements inclusive palettes.

Open Comic was designed by Arthur Reeder. The typeface demonstrates a commitment to typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Handwriting typeface in the Vox-ATypI Scripts classification, Open Comic features disconnected or loosely connected letterforms and irregular stroke weight from natural hand pressure. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for greeting cards and informal stationery.

Open Comic is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency spanning screen and print contexts, with 4 curated font pairings available. Standard Latin character coverage serves the majority of Western typographic workflows.

Open Comic

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Open Comic

This analysis helps designers understand Open Comic's strengths and ideal use cases before committing to a typography decision.

TypeSmith evaluates every font across classification, accessibility, and design heritage.
1

Classification

Handwriting analysis. Typographic analysis places Open Comic within the Scripts (Casual / Handwritten) tradition, characterized by Disconnected or loosely connected letterforms and Irregular stroke weight from natural hand pressure. Handwriting fonts gained popularity in the 1990s digital type boom, offering an approachable alternative to formal scripts. Key technical strength: randomization features for natural variation per glyph.

2

Accessibility

Readability assessment (grade: 56). Open Comic handles most reading scenarios adequately, with best results at sizes above 14 px on screen.

3

Design Heritage

Designed by Arthur Reeder. The designer's attention to character shaping and weight distribution produces a Handwriting with a single focused weight suited to both digital and print workflows.

Overview

About Open Comic

Open Comic falls within the Scripts typeface, drawn from the tradition where handwriting fonts gained popularity in the 1990s digital type boom, offering an approachable alternative to formal scripts. Its distinctive disconnected or loosely connected letterforms and irregular stroke weight from natural hand pressure make it well-suited for greeting cards and informal stationery. TypeSmith features Open Comic in a single weight variant and 4 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available
4 curated pairings for Open Comic
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Inclusive Design

Accessibility & Usability

56
Accessibility Score
Adequate Accessibility

Open Comic Accessibility Profile

Open Comic falls in the moderate accessibility tier, working best at medium-to-large sizes where its letterforms remain clearly differentiated. Irregular baselines and inconsistent letter spacing can hinder readers with visual processing differences. Maintain generous line height and avoid setting below 16 px.

Reading Open Comic: Legibility Factors

Open Comic draws legibility from its disconnected or loosely connected letterforms and irregular stroke weight from natural hand pressure. These characteristics help readers distinguish similar glyphs such as I, l, and 1 at a range of sizes.

Open Comic Reading Performance

More legible than formal scripts due to disconnected letters, but the irregular baseline limits sustained reading. Best at medium sizes for short passages. Use at 16 px minimum for body text, and maintain 1.5 line-height to support comfortable reading rhythm.

Open Comic: Comfort in Extended Reading

Open Comic provides a focused weight range that maintains consistent typographic color across paragraphs. Balanced stroke modulation keeps visual noise low during sustained reading sessions.

Open Comic Accessibility Recommendations

Maintain a minimum contrast ratio of 4.5:1 for body text and 3:1 for large text when setting Open Comic. Use font sizes of at least 16 px for paragraph copy and line spacing of 1.5 or greater. Test Open Comic at 200% browser zoom to confirm line breaks and layout integrity remain intact.

Design Tips for Open Comic

Combine with a geometric sans-serif for modern contrast or a clean slab serif for grounded warmth. Avoid pairing with script or calligraphic faces. Curated pairings are available to guide complementary typeface selection for Open Comic. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Open Comic in WOFF2 format for optimal load performance and broad browser compatibility.

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Open Comic Font Files

Available Weights

400
Regular
Local
400
Regular Italic
Local
700
Bold
Local
700
Bold Italic
Local

Weight Reference

Aa
100
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200
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300
Aa
400
Aa
500
Aa
600
Aa
700
Aa
800
Aa
900

Internationalization

Open Comic Multilingual Support

Extended Latin Coverage
Supports 100+ languages with Latin script

Western European

  • English
  • French
  • German
  • Spanish
  • Italian
  • Portuguese
  • Dutch

Nordic

  • Swedish
  • Norwegian
  • Danish
  • Finnish
  • Icelandic

Central European

  • Polish
  • Czech
  • Hungarian
  • Romanian
  • Slovak

Baltic

  • Lithuanian
  • Latvian
  • Estonian

This font encodes 80 glyphs covering Latin. Text outside these ranges falls back to another face in the stack.

Legal

Usage Rights for Open Comic

SIL Open Font License (OFL) 1.1
Free for personal and commercial use
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What you can do

  • Personal projects
  • Commercial projects
  • Web embedding
  • App embedding
  • Modification
  • Redistribution

Restrictions

  • Selling as standalone

Modified versions must use a different name and be distributed under the same OFL license.

Open Comic is available under the SIL Open Font License (OFL), Version 1.1. This license is a free, libre, and open source license specifically designed for fonts and related software. The OFL allows the fonts to be used, studied, modified, and redistributed freely as long as they are not sold by themselves. This makes Open Comic ideal for web projects, applications, documents, and print materials of any kind.