Nate Piekos of Blambot
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20+ years lettering for Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, and Image. Eisner nom. Award-winning design & typography. Author of The Essential Guide to Comic Book Lettering.
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Joined June 2009
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Well, to make a good one, you can hire a pro, or…you’ll need a bunch of years of typography experience and a competent working knowledge of the programs Fontlab or Glyphs. To make a crappy one, there are a bunch of half-assed online font generators out there.
@blambot How do I make my handwriting into a font? People have been telling me to do this, but like, I have no clue how.
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That’s Out of Line Pro BB.
@blambot Hi Nate, can you tell me what font are using in this example, looks very good! Thanks
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Eh. I generally avoid breaking compound words if possible. If this caption was all by itself, yeah, I probably would.
@blambot Nice! Wouldn't you break the word in any case? SUPER-STRUCTURE doesn't look that bad?
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Here's a lettering trick to improve the aesthetics of an awkward caption: 1) The first caption has one huge word that throws off the possibility of a nice rectangular "line stack". If I've got captions after that one, 2) I like overlapping them to fill that negative space.
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I’ve made a lot of custom fonts for clients…I thought it was time to make a new one for myself; my everyday natural handwriting. Gonna give it the works: 6 versions of every letter, numbers, etc. swap around as I type. (This is just for my own personal use.)
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And as I’m sure you fellow geeks suspected, “Jonesy” is a modified Paul Reed Smith CE24 semi-hollow named after the cat from Alien.
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(BTW, I've asked around because I didn't know if I was the only one. Turns out, no. Most people working in the comics industry have two signatures...one for comic signings, and then their "real" one for legal purposes.)
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