Comments on: Font Advice

By: Moo

Moo — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 01:44:18 +0000

EB my not-yet-met-in-person cyber-bud.
I like “Poor Richard” because it’s designed to look somewhat like what Ben Franklin used in the first editions of “Poor Richard’s Almanac”. BF is my hero, so I like using “Poor Richard” when possible.

By: Eric Burke

Eric Burke — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 12:58:53 +0000

@Superdotman thanks for the link to the speech bubble article! I’ll definitely give that a shot.

By: Superdotman

Superdotman — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 12:48:16 +0000

Victoria: Writing is creating! You can disagree with him, but show some respect.

Eric: I haven’t been able to find a font I like, so I’ve been Wacomming in all my text. You might consider getting a really cheap one—not good enough for drawing, but good enough for words. Alternately, you could make your own font, so you only need to connect the real and digital worlds once.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/tabletpc.mspx
Hand-lettered text or text in a custom font does plenty of awesome to comics.

Debatably on the subject of typography, you might also want to try (potentially time-consuming) alternatives to roundrects for speech bubbles:
http://www.goodshipchronicles.com/tutballoon.php

By: Victoria

Victoria — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 03:44:17 +0000

I would say that the so-called passion regarding particular fonts is mostly a gross case of herd mentality, hero worship, and people who are doing more complaining than creating (e.g. Gruber). Different fonts have different feels. There may be a common type of font for achieving a particular effect, but there is no correct font.

Seriously, loving the comics

By: KiltBear

KiltBear — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 23:01:14 +0000

Hah, I’m with you on fonts… but whatever you do, don’t use Arial or suffer a rebuff from someone like Gruber: http://daringfireball.net/linked/2008/10/01/mobile-flickr

By: Gryc Ueusp

Gryc Ueusp — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 21:38:05 +0000

Take a look at http://www.blambot.com/fonts.shtml for some really nice fonts, and some are even free

Though personally, I prefer the font you’ve been using. It just has that Stuff That Happens Feel ™

By: jesse wilson

jesse wilson — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 20:16:05 +0000

Use a font from http://swank.ca/caffeen/fonts/ like ‘Jim Teacher’ cause the artist of those fonts is like totally your biggest fan….

By: Rusty Wright

Rusty Wright — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 19:15:01 +0000

Oops, fonts from Font Pool aren’t free, but they’re really inexpensive.

By: Rusty Wright

Rusty Wright — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 19:10:20 +0000

They’re your comics so use a font that appeals to you. But since they’re comics use a handwriting font; there are plenty of free ones. For example,

http://www.fontpool.com/categories/funny/page1.html

By: Tristan

Tristan — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:28:11 +0000

Oh, and here’s a great, short overview of typography.

http://www.markboulton.co.uk/journal/comments/five_simple_steps_to_better_typography/

After reading that, font selection, page setup, etc, all started to make sense.

Last comment. I promise.