Comic Sans Pro (2011)
Comic Sans Pro is an improved and expanded version created by Terrance Weinzierl from Monotype Imaging. While retaining the original classic design of the core characters, it adds new italic variants of the original fonts, swashes, small capitals, extra ornaments and symbols including speech bubbles, onomatopoeia and dingbats, as well as text figures and other stylistic alternates. Originally appearing as part of Ascender 2010 Font Pack as Comic Sans 2010, it was first released on April Fools’ Day, causing some to initially assume it was a joke.
I first read about that font and Apple Sans Adjectives on another forum where the swear filter replaced the word ‘bullsh*t’ with ‘bullpooh’.
As I mentioned in my post here, older browsers only support standard ligatures, which is presumably why they’re used in preference to contextual ligatures for things like this.
It does seem odd that those glyphs are unused. The fact that there are 26 of them suggests that they were intended to be mapped to letters of the alphabet.
Interesting. I still wonder why they included those glyphs, without making them available. I suspect they initially intended to expose them through OpenType features, but later decided to exclude them.
This font also contains some glyphs which are not directly available:
Also note Sans Bullshit Sans and Apple Sans Adjectives both contains invalid OpenType features, as they have included the same feature (StandardLigatures) twice in the same script/language.
I don’t know if this counts as an Easter Egg or not but Kelvinch contains a few symbols that are different between Regular, Bold, Italic and Bold-italic.
It started out when I copied Bhikkhu Pesala’s symbol blocks and a few other blocks from his Pali font and then I saw this thread in the forum and thought it was a good idea. So there are a few more altered symbols that few if any people will find.
I also buried a White Rose of Yorkshire symbol in there.
ALL THE TRAVELING was taking its toll on Greg and Eliyezer. At the end of June 1991, they brought the production work from Salfords to Redmond, bringing four Monotype employees with them: Mike Duggan, Geraldine Wade, Ian Patterson, and Sue Lightfoot. “Mike,” says Greg Hitchcock, “was Mr. Pixel. Geraldine focused on maintaining the beauty of the typeface design. Sue could handle all the monotonous projects with precision. Ian was the technical hinting guy.”
the smiggring from left to right:
Geraldine Wade, Sue Lightfoot, Greg Hitchcock, Ian Patterson, and Michael Duggan
Bulleted lists anyone?
