Official Off-Topic Thread

[leroy]

It's still awesome, somehow reminds me of the Marvel Comics font that was in the Hulk-movie intro.

Something like this


I'm a font geek 

[ndchristie]

It's still awesome, somehow reminds me of the Marvel Comics font

... that "font" looks like that because comics always used to use hand lettering 

i see the reason for using fonts to hasten lettering, but using fonts made to look like they were done by hand has always baffled me.

[ptoing]

What is so baffling about it? Using handlettered looking fonts to make it mesh with the drawings makes sense. "Normal" print fonts usually look horrible in comics, unless it is made on purpose and for effect.

[MrMister]

don't a lot of amnerkian comics still use hand lettering
maybe not
most fonts designed to emulate hand lettering to look like shit though, a la comic sans

[ndchristie]

what's baffling is that things like Comic Sans and it's spawn are pretty "bad" fonts.  I don't think that it's necessary anymore, with the way comics have changed to much, to not use any of a thousand "good" (sans serif) faces.  Not to mention, many hand-lettered comics already followed much better conventions than these here.  Of the fonts on that site, only a handful are really effective.  particularly LOL are the ones that are mimicking poorly lettered comics. 

[Rox]

don't a lot of amnerkian comics still use hand lettering
maybe not
most fonts designed to emulate hand lettering to look like shit though, a la comic sans

Yup, some comics still use hand lettering. Some don't. Sometimes you can't really tell a difference, because a lot of fonts that emulate hand lettering actually look pretty good. I wouldn't say Comic Sans is even intended to look like comic lettering, I think it's just a random "playful" font someone at Microsoft decided Windows needs to have.

Anyway, fonts aren't very important as long as they stay out of the way. It doesn't take many pages for the reader to completely forget what the font looks like and just read what it says. Assuming it doesn't suck, that is. A concept most webcomic authors still have no grasp of...

[leroy]

It's still awesome, somehow reminds me of the Marvel Comics font

... that "font" looks like that because comics always used to use hand lettering 

I just say font, it's faster than saying hand lettering. It saves 10 hits.
But I'm sure that font (haha) is somewhere in teh internet. I want it.

[Dusty]

But I'm sure that font (haha) is somewhere in teh internet. I want it.

That is not a font in the graph, as each letter is unique(none are exactly the same).

[leroy]

Yes.. but.. um..


 

[skw]

I just say font, it's faster than saying hand lettering. It saves 10 hits.

and you waste the other 77 on explaining that. ;p

In fact, many known letterers now use computer-generated fonts that resemble their hand-lettering.