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

[sigune.livejournal.com]

LOL! branquignole is saying the same thing. It's funny! I never look at fonts that way. To me they mostly suggest special voices - like, a talking dragon won't be lettered in the same font as a human, and a demon I expect to be lettered in shaky horror-y letters :). You may remember that I gave Snape his own font in my comic - that was also a voice thing, though I'm not sure it worked for anyone except me.

That said, I feel that a font should above all be readable, and preferably also look reasonably nice. Red State, Blue State is crisp and well-spaced; I like it :). I'll put the fancy one to other uses.