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Title: Understanding Comic Book Typography!
Post by: gunug on February 08, 2009, 08:41:17 AM

I read a lot of comic books and newspaper comics over the years but there were some things I apparently didn't understand about the structure of the typology used in the balloons.  There is a website that explains some of this here:

http://www.blambot.com/grammar.shtml

They also apparently give away a comic book font every month!

Title: Understanding Comic Book Typography!
Post by: Xairbusdriver on February 08, 2009, 03:50:13 PM

Thanks SOooooo much for yet another Font site!!

Title: Understanding Comic Book Typography!
Post by: gunug on February 08, 2009, 07:21:29 PM

Title: Understanding Comic Book Typography!
Post by: krissel on February 08, 2009, 11:03:18 PM

Hey, thanks for the links.  Interesting stuff to read, especially the article about how the lettering is done.

http://www.blambot.com/handlettering.shtml

And these charts on keystrokes for international characters:

http://www.blambot.com/intlchart.shtml


Oh, and Jim, here's another font site.  

http://www.1001freefonts.com/

Title: Understanding Comic Book Typography!
Post by: Xairbusdriver on February 09, 2009, 09:31:15 AM

STOP! Stop, I say!

Title: Understanding Comic Book Typography!
Post by: gunug on February 09, 2009, 01:10:09 PM

But they're free!!!  

Title: Understanding Comic Book Typography!
Post by: Xairbusdriver on February 09, 2009, 10:23:57 PM

ACK!!! The freer they are the more HD space they consume!!!

Title: Understanding Comic Book Typography!
Post by: sokukodo on February 11, 2009, 06:19:09 PM

Thanks for the links! These are cool ...