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Introducing an innovation in typography, Johnny Comics!

Johnny Type premières by rolling off the presses first a family of professional comic book fonts named Johnny Comics. Be sure to check out the documentation.

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Johnny Comics typeface is a family of professional comic book fonts (Regular, Italic, and Bold Italic), influenced by the lettering style of some of the best letterers of the Silver and Bronze Ages of Comics, such as Gaspar Saladino and John Costanza.

The Regular font employs 7800 alternates in an OpenType feature called “randomize” (rand), which means that basically a 40,000-word text can be typed without repeating a character. This should be quite sufficient for rendering a 120-page graphic novel without repeating a character. This amounts to six 20-page comic books. The Italic contains 50% of this number, and Bold Italic, 20%.

Every time a character is typed, in those programs which support the rand feature, such as Microsoft Word or Serif’s Affinity suite of programs (Publisher 2, Designer 2, or Photo 2), a different alternate version of the letter appears onscreen, giving a handwritten appearance. (Affinity programs can be used compatibly in workflow with other graphics and desktop publishing programs, such as Adobe software.)

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