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DanShive — Teri: Font Experiment II
Published: 2008-10-18 16:48:59 +0000 UTC; Views: 6967; Favourites: 38; Downloads: 110
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This is an experiment using an existing comic of mine and another font I'm working on. The letter images for this font was actually created last year for a project, and is based on my own hand lettering. You can compare it to the original version here: [link]As a font experiment, I'd like critiques to focus mainly on the font and not the drawings unless it's a matter of how the font and drawings work together.
This font has some variance in line thickness, but is close to uniform. There is also added variety in letter size and placement, mostly affecting "lowercase" vowels (the entire font is uppercase, but there are technically lower and uppercase versions of the letters regardless).
So far, the font works well when combined with some of my rougher work, like sketches and the Teri comics. I think it's a little too condensed to work as well with standard EGS, but that might be because all my tests involve font bubbles made for the more extended Comic Sans.
While I might be able to apply this font to the second Teri comic, the third would require heavy editing of the comic itself. I know this because I already tried with the third, and I originally squished a lot of text in there and the text bubbles aren't really sized for a proper font
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Something about it makes it look like a Chick tract, man. A more fun, more attractively drawn one, but still.
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Ha! The laws of physics have finally been broken by Dan Shive! (Actually they were broken a while ago)
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I understand the text is big because the balloons are big, and that they're as big as they are because the comic is supposed to be printed at 5" of something like that. But I agree with the 'ZOMG BIG TEXT' as it is now. How about showing it at a textsize 2 or 3 pixels smaller, for comparison? Perhaps a different comic, with smaller text balloons, so they won't look so empty?
The font itself looks... pretty clean and readable, yet creative enough to not be boring. I'm sure it could be better but it could be lots worse.
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Yes. 99% of all comic fonts are in all caps.
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Ok, didn't know if it was intentional or not here. Wish I could say something about it other then it looks good. Might want to take a look again at how the spacing of the letters are. Could be the fact I been up for +24 hours but the letters look like they have almost the same amount of space between each letter as there is between words. Then again it may just be because it is in all caps or the +24 hours I have been awake.
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I have to agree - the font itself seems a bit too bulky for Teri's comic.
For some bizarre reason, I keep imagining the first EGS:NP with this font for the first test. Is my memory playing tricks on me, or did that really happen?
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The "Y" looks a little funny in "YOU" and "PHYSICS". I think it needs a little empty space trimmed from the right side.
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Yeah, the autokerning the program does is mostly good, but it seems to be fairly stupid when it comes to my "Y" character. I figured out how to manually kern it, however, so future versions won't have that problem.
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You're getting closer. I downright didn't like the first font, but I think you're a few small steps away from this one being solid.
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My only complaint is that, if the lettering is going to look loose and hand-written, then I think the speech bubbles should be clean. Comparatively, if the bubbles are hand-drawn, then the lettering should be a clean typeface font. Right now I think having both at the same time just looks sloppy and more amateurish.
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Work a bit on the kerning, especially with the Y. I know it's tricky, and I'm not gonna pretend like I'm an expert, but I think that's what's gonna keep this from being another Comic Sans.
But good work. The feel of the font really matches your comics.
Peace,
Tora
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I think this font looks more organized than the origional one( which looked a little slopy).
I definatly think this is an improvement.
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I find it a bit "bulky", a bit too "square" (as in, "each letter fits in a square rather than a rectangle" thing)
I like the two Is. The capital one makes it easy to read the word "I", and the lower case one is discreet. I really like the distinction.
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the font works very nicely, and is much more pleasing to the eye than your first font experiment. only criticism I can think of... hmm... you might want to make the letters a bit thinner. they seem too thick for the drawing. this might also help with trying to fit the font into older comics.
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Yeah, I like this font too.
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Why am I thinking of a Blue Hair Nuclear Physicist?
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It does seem sort of like they are yelling at each other. It seems just a bit too dark for regular speech, just make it a bit lighter and I think it would work nicely.
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The font is actually rather light for a comic font naturally. In this case, however, the font is big because this comic is intended to be printed at a mere 5" long. I made the original text and bubbles for it relatively large as a result, and it impacts this version as well.
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I see how that would affect the font size. And I think that in a 5' strip it would look better then it does here. Just trying to give constructive criticism.
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I know, I'm just explaining why it's so big here
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lol physics, you know what they say rules or..in this case laws are ment to be broken
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Personal niggle but the all caps is annoying to me... like they all converse by shouting at each other.
besides that, it has a similar informal feel to it that comic -sans has without it actually being comic-sans. so I think you did your job well there, if that was your intent.
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Does all caps always annoy you? Because most comics are done in all caps.
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not usually no... its weird, in comics I dont normally notice but with this one I cant help it. maybe its all the exclamation marks. either that or the font size.
I dunno... its just grating me for some reason.
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What you could do is the "small caps" trick - have the lowercase letters be slightly shortened versions of the capital letters.
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