Ian M
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Post by Ian M on Sept 12, 2021 14:28:17 GMT
I'm involved in some other comics groups, but I'm often a black sheep there, since most online comic spaces are focused on genre and I am not. This forum might be a more appropriate place to get what I'm going for, since I have zero ambition to ever make a mainstream product (I like mainstream work, but I would never ever want to make it). So, I'm just finishing a project, and I drew the whole thing with a nib. It was out of my comfort zone, I'm more of a brush guy. So I pen lettered the whole thing, and now that it's mostly done, I'm debating A) using the slightly messy lettering I did, that matches the inks on the project or B) using my homemade font. The hand lettered stuff is organic, but inconsistent. It's just not a strong point for me. The font is consistent, but it looks like a font. Only a comic nerd thinks a font is an automatic minus, but I kind of want it hand lettered. So my heart says keep the messy letters, my head says use the font. Any opinion? (and feel free to hijack this thread to request feedback, since I'll make my decision in the next day or two) Hand written ![]()  Font  Attachments:
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Post by k0rnbr34d on Sept 12, 2021 14:44:37 GMT
I would have to see it on a full page to say. I always prefer hand lettering to a font, but in this case it could go either way because your font actually better matches the line in the drawings. It fits pretty well. Luckily, I don't think there is a wrong choice here, just your preference once you've looked it over for a while.
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Post by hackanut on Sept 12, 2021 14:46:13 GMT
Your hand lettering looks good. I’d say the font is immersion breaking for me. Gonna feel a lot more cohesive with the same hand making all the marks. Just my opinion!
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Post by MilleniumDibber on Sept 12, 2021 14:46:42 GMT
Hand-written 1000%
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Post by jjjbradshaw on Sept 12, 2021 16:32:42 GMT
Both are totally decent to me. Often hand lettering is too eager to favor fun looseness and so lacks professionalism and readability, but that’s not the case here… However, the font really does show the charm of being personally designed and the slight increase in boldness makes me like it a little better.
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Post by andrewneal on Sept 12, 2021 19:34:09 GMT
The hand lettering is great. The font will save you time, probably, but it's not as good.
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Ian M
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Post by Ian M on Sept 13, 2021 2:49:26 GMT
Thanks for the input. The whole thing has been hand lettered already. Relettering it would take another five hours. Keeping the cirrent letters will be an hour or two of tweaking.
I think I will stick with the hand lettered version!
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bhanu
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Post by bhanu on Sept 13, 2021 7:30:08 GMT
The one thing most fonts do is provide legibility (readability) that handwritten stuff can lack at times. But that's not the case. I can read the text even as a thumbnail, so that's a win for sure. Plus it fits teh comic as well.
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Post by dwlynch on Sept 14, 2021 4:29:05 GMT
Be a nerd, go for the hand lettering. Hand lettering always carries the personality of the artist with it, especially when it's less polished.
The font is obviously cleaner but honestly its not as engaging as your hand lettering. Your lettering is perfectly legible and aside from that I think it communicates more.
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Post by MilleniumDibber on Sept 14, 2021 6:17:06 GMT
Oh yeah and if you want a character to whisper or emphasize certain words it's way easier with hand-lettering. You love to see it.
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Post by joshpettinger on Sept 14, 2021 16:32:32 GMT
fonts take me out of the story so much, to the point that I'd never buy a comic that used a font. slightly illegible hand lettering over fonts every day
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Post by theapartmentrat on Sept 15, 2021 1:42:11 GMT
Your hand lettering looks good. I’d say the font is immersion breaking for me. Gonna feel a lot more cohesive with the same hand making all the marks. Just my opinion! i agree with this also, like if you used the same pen tool to get that ink bleed effect with the same lettering it would look so much more cohesive, but it's uber cute |
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Post by timbecile on Sept 16, 2021 17:48:40 GMT
If it's typeset, I almost prefer to see a utilitarian inhuman classic text font like in Barnaby or Kurtzman's Goodman Beaver or untranslated manga.
Fonts based on cartoonist lettering seem serviceable for translations, but when it's in original work it looks like a translation of itself.
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Post by micahnova on Nov 10, 2022 3:03:32 GMT
I'm working on a deeply personal comic about my daughter's rare disease and our efforts to keep her alive and thriving in this world for as long as we can. Heavy and personal subject ... that said, I'm not thin skinned about feedback. I can take it. Here's a couple of pages. Wondering how to color it. I've attempted a colored pencil page, but I'm not happy with it. The attachments are backwards in flow ... bottom is page 1, middle is page 2, and page 3 is top (i have 10 pages worked so far) ![]() |
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Post by mikesheawright on Nov 10, 2022 22:54:20 GMT
I'm never a font fan, always feels flat and detached from the artwork. Handwritten all the way!
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