The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
Free font
Baloo 2
A free alternative to Comic Sans.
About Baloo 2
Baloo 2 is Ek Type's chubby rounded display family, released in 2019 with five weights and broad multi-script coverage on Google Fonts. The forms are plump and bouncy rather than handwritten — soft terminals, inflated bowls, and an unapologetically cheerful temperament that scales up cleanly in headlines and packaging-style lockups.
That cheerfulness is what makes it the practical answer to Comic Sans: it isn't a handwriting face at all, but it delivers the playful, approachable energy people are actually reaching for when they pick one for branding. The ExtraBold weight matches Feather Bold's chunky rounded warmth while remaining a genuine multi-weight family, and the heavier cuts come closest to Speedee's Gill Kayo-inspired heft. Choose it when a project needs friendliness with real typographic discipline behind it.
- Designer
- Ek Type
- Released
- 2019
- Available at
- Google Fonts →
Baloo 2 is also a free alternative to…
- Comic Sans → A chubby, rounded display family with five weights and broad multi-script support. Not handwriting at all, but it captures the same playful, approachable energy people actually want when they reach for Comic Sans in headlines and branding.
- Eska → A rounded heavy sans available in several weights, so you can pick an ExtraBold that approaches Eska's mass. Its forms are cleaner and more systematic than Eska Original, closer in spirit to the regularized Eska Neue cut.
- Feather → In its ExtraBold weight, Baloo 2 delivers the same chunky rounded warmth as Feather Bold while remaining a genuine multi-weight family — the most practical everyday substitute.
- Peace Sans → A heavy, rounded display family with the same cheerful bulk and smooth terminals as Peace Sans, built for loud headlines and packaging. Its ExtraBold weight matches the weight almost exactly, while the five-weight range and Indic script support give you far more flexibility.
- Speedee → Chubby, bouncy, and unapologetically cheerful — Baloo 2's heavier weights get closest to Speedee's Gill Kayo-inspired heft in headlines and packaging-style lockups.
Display + body that work together
Headlines that read at a glance
A pairing is a relationship: one voice speaks first, the other answers, and the contrast between them sets the tone for the whole page.
Display · Body Baloo 2 + Source Serif 4
Pages that earn the read
Crisp, even strokes give the display its punch. Quiet serifs underneath stay readable across thousands of words — used together by editors at the kind of paper that still prints corrections.
Display · Body Bodoni Moda + Baloo 2