Free fonts similar to Comic Sans

The alternatives in detail

How to recognize Comic Sans

Vincent Connare, 1994, Microsoft. Drawn for speech bubbles in a children’s software interface.

• Rounded, marker-like strokes with uneven, hand-drawn shapes.
• No two curves quite match, which is the point.
• On devices without it, the same page falls back to a different casual font.

In a site’s CSS it may appear as Comic Sans MS. Not sure what you are looking at? Identify the font on the live page first.

Is Comic Sans free?

Ships with Windows and macOS. It is not open source and is missing on Android and Linux, where a generic cursive font appears instead.

The alternatives on this page are open source, so you can use them on commercial sites, self-host the files and ship them in products. Read more in font licensing in plain English.

Use Comic Neue in your CSS

Put the free font first and keep sensible fallbacks behind it. Self-hosting the files is the most private and usually the fastest option.

@font-face {
  font-family: "Comic Neue";
  src: url("/fonts/comic-neue-400.woff2") format("woff2");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Comic Neue";
  src: url("/fonts/comic-neue-700.woff2") format("woff2");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Comic Neue", "Comic Sans MS", "Comic Neue", cursive;
}