Font comparison

[sigune]

Okay. So, the most commonly-heard 'complaint', if you can call it that, about my digital lettering experiment is that the font is an ordinary one. I have to confess that I like it myself because it reminds me of Jeff Smith's lettering in Bone, one of my favourite fonts in my entire comics library :). I also like it because it is not even close to Comic Sans ;).

Anyway - on my Blogspot a friend suggested that I try Ale & Wenches, a very pretty, medieval-like font. I'm posting the page with Ale & Wenches next to the previous version. My own inclination would be to use this font for captions and stick to Red State, Blue State for the speech bubbles. Oh, and any dragons can of course speak in Dragon Bones ;).

Please let me know what you think!

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Comments

[schemingreader.livejournal.com]

i like the original font, the Bones font, better--the second one here. I think an ordinary font that looks like regular old hand-lettering is easiest to read and doesn't distract.

[sigune.livejournal.com]

Yes, I agree that it's good for the font not to draw too much attention to itself. Ale & Wenches in the captions will set a theme, but in the speech bubbles it is a bit too much.

Thanks! :)