Sep 11, 2018 - This typeface was developed Blambot, a company that 'proudly provides comic fonts and lettering'. You have to pay for many of its brilliant. On this page you can download the font Blambot Casual version Macromedia Fontographer 4.1 11/2/02, which belongs to the family Blambot Casual (Regular.

1K Shares When done right – you tend not to notice great comic book lettering. Meaning it blends seamlessly with the art to make an amazing reading experience. I used to letter all of the various comics that we created back in the mid-late 2000’s. I’d pour a glass of wine (I’m not a wine drinker incidentally), fire up InDesign and get to it. It was a nice reprieve from writing, drawing, packaging, Myspacing and marketing our fledgling boutique.

I wasn’t particularly great – but I was pretty good and lettered around 250 pages in total. Hand Lettering Your Comic Was Sometimes Ulcer Inducing Lettering your comic used to be a nerve-wracking experience. That is when you were talking about dropping in the lettering by hand with a technical pen or a #107 nib. While digital lettering today can still be a frustrating process it’s miles easier than in decades past.

[] Enter the comic book font. • • • • • • Where the “Comic Book Font” Came From When I was first hunting for free comic fonts to test out in the early 2000’s the pickings were slim.

There were only two or three worthy contenders. Since then thousands of free fonts can be found and downloaded online. By sheer numbers, this also means more free quality comic fonts have also surfaced. It just takes longer to find them now.

While I tend to stick with “paid for” Comicraft fonts you should play around with some of the free ones first to get a feel for comic lettering. My goal for you with this post was three-fold.

• The fonts had to be free. • They had to be able to be used commercially (or at least partially) • They had to at least be “almost” as good as a paid commercial font. Properly Stacking Text in a Dialogue Balloon — Nate Piekos (@blambot) Free Comic Lettering Fonts Blambot Comic Fonts Found this via Spider-Man editor: '5 Amateur Lettering Mistakes' by Nate Piekos.

#1 my big pet peeve! Cebulski (@CBCebulski) My first stop was over at comic fonts and lettering. Nate Piekos has been at this for two decades and has lettered comics for Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Oni Press, Dark Horse Comics and many others.

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Nate’s work has been seen EVERYWHERE. He’s designed a lot of comic fonts and has made several of them free via a for independent comic creation. • Anyone can use Blambot free fonts for non-profit projects, excluding Embedding, Redistribution, or Webfont use. • If you are an independent/small press comic creator, you may use Blambot free fonts in your comic book project–even if you are making money with your project–even if you use the fonts printed on merch in support of your comic. (This excludes Embedding, Webfont, and Redistributive use.) This is Blambot’s way of supporting the independent comic community and applies only to indie/small press comic book creators. • If your use does not fall into the above scenarios, and you need a Basic or other license, see the License Options page.

Two of the standouts are: Back Issues is a handy comic font to get you started. You can play around with it in captions and word balloons. Badaboom is more of a display font. It would be useful for sound effects, titles or a loud voice word balloon. But really they’re all great. Other Blambot fonts such as Crime Fighter, Unmasked, and Evil Genius have been around longer than some comic creators have been alive.

While you’re over there be sure to read his post on comic. It’s worth the trip. Next up it’s over to 1001fonts.com for two more contenders. Styles: Regular, Bold, Bold Italic Made by “The original plan was to have five 10-font packs which would constitute a complete lettering system for the comic artist, whether professional, independent, amateur, beginner or whoever wants to use the stuff. The biggest worry for any comic artist in these digital days, when it comes to letters, is what goes inside the speech, narration and thought balloons.