Author Topic: Understanding Comic Book Typography! (Read 4987 times)

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!

Xairbusdriver · « **Reply #1 on:** February 08, 2009, 03:50:13 PM »

Thanks SOooooo much for yet another Font site!!

gunug · « **Reply #2 on:** February 08, 2009, 07:21:29 PM »

krissel · « **Reply #3 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/

Xairbusdriver · « **Reply #4 on:** February 09, 2009, 09:31:15 AM »

STOP! Stop, I say!

gunug · « **Reply #5 on:** February 09, 2009, 01:10:09 PM »

But they're free!!!

Xairbusdriver · « **Reply #6 on:** February 09, 2009, 10:23:57 PM »

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

sokukodo · « **Reply #7 on:** February 11, 2009, 06:19:09 PM »

Thanks for the links! These are cool ...

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Author Topic: Understanding Comic Book Typography! (Read 4987 times)