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Lettering...
Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 18:14 -0700
by The_Ronin13
Hey... I'm a cartoonist and I'm curious what would be the best lettering for the words? All captial, and how small?
Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 22:50 -0700
by Shishio
Well, if you're going to letter your comics digitally, my personal preferences would be Wild Words and Anime Ace. If I remember correctly, 12-14 pixels should be good.
Of course, it's good to have a lot of different fonts as it's good to use different ones when an occassion calls for them. There are some great sites out there that provide tonnes of free fonts.
http://www.blambot.com
http://www.dafont.com
There's others, just Google "Free Fonts."
And if you're going to letter by hand, I can't help you.
Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 22:54 -0700
by Stan Sakai
Shishio wrote:
And if you're going to letter by hand, I can't help you.
I still do my lettering by hand. If that is the route you want to take, you first should pick up an Aames Lettering Guide. It is available for a few dollars at most art supplies and drafting stores.
Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 4:52 -0700
by The_Ronin13
Thank you!
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 15:32 -0700
by Blambot
There are two schools of thought on the caps vs. sentence case lettering. It really just comes down to preference. Caps is the standard, and is visually more compact. I say do whatever compliments the art best.
If you're lettering at print size, most lettering fonts look best between 6 and 9 pt. (depends on the font).
If it's hand lettering you're interested in, I've actually written an article on that:
http://www.blambot.com/handlettering.shtml
Enjoy!
~N