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

[the-winterwitch.livejournal.com]

I like both, to be honest, and can't really decide... dragonbones for the dragons would be extremely cool, though. I don't know how good the emphasis is visible with ale&wenches, though; at least the italic looks a bit weird.

[vanityfair00.livejournal.com]

I liked the last one better. This one is pretty but the original font was easier to read imo.

[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.

[todayiamadaisy]

I prefer the bottom one (yesterday's font), I think. The new one is lovely and would work well for titles and things, but I'm not sure about it in speech bubbles. Decorative fonts in speech bubbles just don't look right to me; I see that coming from their mouths and think 'gosh, that must be hard to say'. If that makes sense.

[branquignole.livejournal.com]

I am totally with you on using the new font for captions and the like- I can totally imagine it working really well that way. But it doesn't really look like a talking font, if you get my meaning. When reading comics, I think it's important that the font looks somewhat like talk, which is really hard to explain, but I think that a font with clear lines that also looks a bit like hand-writing, looks most as if it would come out of a mouth, you know. Am I being coherent at all? :D

Anyway, I'd stick to the old font, but the new one would be extremely nice for giving the comic a kind of medieval touch in the captions and such. :)

EDIT: Oh, I just realised that what I called the "old" font was in truth a digital lettering experiment as well (not really up-to-date, sorry!). Well, I've always loved your lettering before, but I guess if you want a more professional and clean look, then the second version is great, and closest to what you did before. My advice is pretty much, "go with it", always bearing in mind that readers are important, as well as their opinion and the legibility, but you have to be happy with the font and the feel of the comic as well!

[valis2.livejournal.com]

I always prefer simpler fonts...just a personal preference...so I'd have to go with the second set. It distracts less from the story.

[ex-neke.livejournal.com]

I like the second one better. :)

[veradee.livejournal.com]

The second one. :)