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vaslittlecrow · Joined: 01 Aug 2005 Posts: 632

antleonardi01 suggested that for the sake of easier readability, we need a new font for the next chapter of Rasputin Barxotka. While I am in complete agreement, finding comic-friendly fonts that have Cyrillic characters is extremely difficult. For this reason, I currently use Witzworx combined with the dreaded Comic Sans, bolded and stretched out. This kind of jerryrigging is a huge inconvenience for me as a letterer and it slows down my workflow something fierce.

Thankfully, I found Jovanny Lemonad’s fabulous free font page. Not only are these fonts excellent, they have the Cyrillic alphabet that I desperately need. If you can use any of his fonts for your own projects, be sure to throw a donation his way. Now here’s where I need your help; look at these choices:

The next chapter of Rasputin Barxotka (NSFW) will be more action-oriented, and it's going to be a big saucier. The art style is also going to be a bit different to reflect for that change, even though it will be similar to what I already do. Now, if you could please vote for your favorite font, I'd really appreciate it.

I'll let you know my final choice next week after all the polls I put out there in Internet-land come back to me. Smile

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Casual Notice · Posted: Sun May 20, 2012 6:11 pm Post subject:

I always say, "You can't go wrong with Comic Sans."
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vaslittlecrow · Joined: 01 Aug 2005 Posts: 632

Casual Notice
Dude, Comics Sans is the dopest shit EVARRR!!!

*Kick*
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smbhax.com · Posted: Mon May 21, 2012 7:14 am Post subject:

The second one looks hard to read.

Hard to say about the others, I guess it would be easier if they were actually put in a sample page of your comic.
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antleonardi01 · Joined: 05 Feb 2012 Posts: 128

Yes, I think a mockup is called for. Much easier to help pick one if I can see them in a speech bubble. I'm glad you're switching the font !

vaslittlecrow · Joined: 01 Aug 2005 Posts: 632

smbhax.com
London is barfy and I thought as much, but it was dyslexic-friendly, which is why I considered it. You're the third person aside from me to say as much. Still it does make a decent sound effect font.

Your wish is my command.

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milton5 · Joined: 27 Jan 2012 Posts: 18

I'm liking Flow or Neucha.

Best, TT

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vaslittlecrow · Joined: 01 Aug 2005 Posts: 632

Thank you very much, milton5.
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iaviv · Joined: 03 Sep 2011 Posts: 257

Flow or Neucha. I find Flow more readable, personally.
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vaslittlecrow · Joined: 01 Aug 2005 Posts: 632

iaviv: Those two fonts seem to be getting the most positive reaction.
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smbhax.com · Posted: Tue May 22, 2012 1:32 am Post subject:

Yeah I'd say those two are the best. Flow is a little more italicized than I'd like, but it's more attractive than Neucha.

vaslittlecrow wrote:

it was dyslexic-friendly

That's interesting, I've never heard of that. What makes a font easier for people with dyslexia?
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Snotnarok · Joined: 13 Mar 2011 Posts: 89

Casual Notice wrote:

I always say, "You can't go wrong with Comic Sans."

Ironically I use "I hate Comic Sans" as my comics font haha.

OT: I think any font that's clearly got caps and lowercase separate is a winner.
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vaslittlecrow · Joined: 01 Aug 2005 Posts: 632

Snotnarok

I really like Comics Sans on a personal level because it is incredibly dyslexic-friendly (I am extremely dyslexic) and it has every character known to man. Unfortunately, people have a totally visceral reaction to it, so I tend to use Witzworx instead, even if it is NOT kerning-friendly.

I agree on fonts with both cases and I thank you for your feedback.
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vulpeslibertas · Posted: Tue May 22, 2012 6:46 am Post subject:

We used to have a thread on this, but I can't seem to find it. Maybe the forum had another wipe? Anyways, I've got my own font program which I can make fonts with. Including - ta da - modifications to existing fonts. Which may be what you want if you're mixing and matching fonts. I like it, but it's probably too spendy if you aren't planning on making multiple fonts with it. I also recall some people here have experience with a random website somewhere which will let you make a font. I don't know what the URL is, and I can't find the forum post, but maybe Casual or Wendy knows what it is.

EDIT:
Also, if you want to test readability, you should make the fonts really small and see which is still easily readable as a 5pt font.
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dpat57 · Posted: Tue May 22, 2012 10:35 am Post subject:

vaslittlecrow wrote:

If we're voting, Flow suits these sample panels best, tho' Cuprum isn't a bad second.
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