….sorry….

I was in Electrical Engineering in college, so I had a drafting course too. I was already a fairly good printer, though. My father was a really talented artist and I picked up on trying to practice lettering at an early age. You wouldn’t know it to see me print on an average day, but when I’m trying to letter cleanly it’s fortunately one of those things that never gets too rusty. The balloon placement and spacing and design, though, as Colleen reminded me above… those are trickier and I probably never nailed that part down as well as making the actual letters.

But I can see what bothers Colleen about this – the letter size is variable. Lettering can be tricky, even for artists. I learned that when I took an engineering drafting course one semester.

I like what you’re talking about for the font based on your lettering. I used to toy with the idea of creating a font myself, I swear it used to be something you could do in Adobe Illustrator or maybe I’m thinking of Corel Draw… anyway, I thought it was possible to create/edit fonts but I keep being just lazy enough to not dig further into how to actually do it.

I made a lot of basic errors here, but they include things like word balloon shape and placement.

All of my current work is hand lettered, and I think it looks a lot better. My restored graphic novels include a font based on my hand lettering provided by Comicraft and all digital restoration by Allan Harvey.

The result is much cleaner and easier to read.

Someone was on twitter claiming the font was bad, which makes me happy because I do not want a technically perfect font. I want one that looks like my hand lettering. IMPERFECT. I know several people who purchased it and now use it in their pro work.

What I’m seeing looks fine to me. I love all the fonts we have access to now on computers, but I find myself missing the imperfect hand-lettered comics of yesteryear.

Just guessing of course. This story is ALL NEW to me! 😀

Loving it!