Artemis Draws

I’m just going to write about fonts today, an important part of making a comic book. It just occurred to me that I never mentioned before what font I used for my Card Players comic, and after all this is a blog about making comics so I would like it to be as comprehensive as possible. Initially, I wanted to hand-letter the comic myself but after doing the first few pages, I decided my lettering was atrocious. I’m far too impatient to write slowly and so everything comes out looking like a dog’s breakfast. I even have an Ames lettering guide that I picked up from eBay some years back but no patience to use it properly. So I decided to do all the lettering by computer, so I could tweak it as I went along, which turned out to be the best strategy.

For my Card Players comic, I used the free font ‘Chronicles of a Hero’ from the excellent Blambot website. Many years ago I used to collect free fonts and had a stack of 3.5″ discs full of font archives. Now I’m on the hunt again.

Great font sites I found recently:

http://www.blambot.com
http://www.1001fonts.com
http://www.macfonts.com
http://www.comicbookfonts.com but these are pricey!