Comic Sans in Windows MiKTeX

Question

All I have done is write a code like this:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{comicsans}
\usepackage{mathtools}
\begin{document}
    Hello World!
\end{document}

The output consists of empty black-bordered rectangles with the dimension of the letters. I do not know how to fix it. I have already installed the comicsans package form MiKTeX console.

Is the font mentioned in updmap.cfg? – Bernard Feb 16 '22 at 23:51 — Bernard, Feb 16 '22 at 23:51

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 17 '22 at 01:46

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In XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX, you can use the TrueType font directly:

 \usepackage{fontspec}
 \setmainfont{Comic Sans}

If you also want to use it for math (and it has a surprisingly large repertoire of math symbols), you can use mathastext, unicode-math or mathspec.

answered Feb 17 '22 at 01:46

Davislor

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I have tried using your solution, but numbers inside math mode do not appear in ComicSans, they are printed in Computer Modern. The rest works perfectly. How can I fix that? – user258200 Mar 11 '22 at 10:05
@user258200 Did you \usepackage{mathastext}? – Davislor Mar 11 '22 at 21:43
Yes, I did @Davislor – user258200 Mar 13 '22 at 14:43

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 17 '22 at 08:24

The package comicsans is rather old and it not longer works with the version of the font provided by a current windows.

The situation is quite similar to verdana and the other winfonts (see Verdana font not working).

To get it working again you would have to create a new encoding file or get the author to do it along the lines in my answer to the other question https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/339269/2388

The alternative is to use xelatex or lualatex as suggested by Davislor.

Comic Sans in Windows MiKTeX

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