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Title: The Wisdom of All Fonts
Post by: Jim_Campbell on 01 January, 2017, 03:53:10 PM
Just a quick reminder that the Comicraft annual New Year sale is on. All fonts are $20.17 for the rest of today, and the sale closes when whichever timezone is the last one to do so ticks over to Jan 2nd. Get your lettering fonty goodness here. (http://www.comicbookfonts.com/default.asp)
Title: Re: The Wisdom of All Fonts
Post by: Jim_Campbell on 01 January, 2017, 04:26:13 PM
In case anyone wants any pointers, these are my 'heavy lifting' fonts from Comicraft, and books you can see them in (because you never know if you're actually going to like a font until you see it used a LOT):

Dialogue:

Meanwhile (Lucas Stand, Welcome Back, Vikings, Warlords of Appalachia)
HedgeBackwards (Goldie Vance)
Samaritan Tall (Joyride)
WildWords (upper and lower) (Young Terrorists, Godkiller, Xed)
AdamKubert (Dragon Riders of Berk, Heroes, Kung Fu Panda)
RichStarkings (Robyn Hood)
Maladroit (Backstagers)
DaveGibbons (upper and lower) (WWE, Power Rangers, Munchkin)
Monologous/Soliloquous (We Can Never Go Home)

Creature/ Special voices:

SpookyTooth
FightingWords
RoughTongue
Alchemite
HolierThanThou
Dreamland
DearDiary

SFX:
BellyLaugh
BiffBamBoom
Shoutout
PrimalScream

Remember to get the Western European International versions where possible!
Title: Re: The Wisdom of All Fonts
Post by: Trout on 01 January, 2017, 06:11:39 PM
Wow. Impressive. I usually just yell for a designer to do this stuff for me. 😝
Title: Re: The Wisdom of All Fonts
Post by: Darren Stephens on 01 January, 2017, 06:28:09 PM
Always foget about this sale, so thanks for the heads up. Just picked up 'Meanwhile'.  :D
Title: Re: The Wisdom of All Fonts
Post by: SuperSurfer on 01 January, 2017, 06:37:49 PM
Thanks. Good tip.

On the rare occasion I require such fonts I end up butchering freebie typefaces in Illustrator and it's about time I stopped committing such crimes* against typography.

*By butcher fonts I mean force italicising and condensing. I'm not proud of that.
Title: Re: The Wisdom of All Fonts
Post by: sheridan on 01 January, 2017, 07:55:01 PM
I'll just leave this here:

(http://static.deathandtaxesmag.com/uploads/2013/02/sans-640x354.jpg)
Title: Re: The Wisdom of All Fonts
Post by: The Enigmatic Dr X on 02 January, 2017, 12:06:33 PM
Kudos for the subject heading.