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Making My Own Font
🕑 Added 2020-07-05 18:05:18 +0000 UTCI love hand lettering! I love using the dialogue written in a character's word balloon to emote along with their expression, or indicate how quiet or loud they're being. I like being able to break out of a balloon's borders or trail words off into nothing if the scene calls for it. But lettering does take up a significant amount of time each week (a couple hours, if the pages are dialogue heavy!) and it's very taxing on my arm since it requires a lot of small, precise movements, and that's the kind of thing that can flair up old RSIs! So, I thought it would be neat to try and make a font that emulates my own handwriting, and above you can see my first go at it! (๑•̀ㅂ•́)و I'm using an application called Calligraphr, and so far I have to say I'm pleased with the results.
I'll probably keep adjusting it here and there, to try and get it as close as I can to how I write now. I've been tweaking the baselines/ligatures/variants/kerning etc all morning and I'd like to add even more variants for each letter, which means Photoshop will substitute one of the versions of that same letter out for another, to cut back on the "fonty-ness" look I want to avoid.
I'll still end up hand lettering for expressive dialogue - like those intimate scenes or SFX that require a little more flair! But for standard, every day conversation? A font could really help me save time and my wrist from complaining! ╭( ･ㅂ･)و ̑̑
Comments
Asmodeus
You should give it a whirl! A bit of time invested up front, but hours saved afterward 🤘
Stephen Hutchison
This is a thing I've wanted for many years.
Amanda Poland
This is awesome! Anything that helps you work on this comic and not destroy your hand is absolutely necessary!
