Use ‘loose’ or ‘floating’ text to save space & create rhythm on crowded pages.
The Layer Method
Our top Secret time-saving technique for creating and merging balloons and tails in Illustrator.
Eight Steps to Creating a Lettering Font
A step-by-step overview of the font creation process in Fontographer.
Tutorial: Pop-Up Letters
This fantastic technique was shown to us by Saul Griffith, who publishes a series of how-to comic strips called “Howtoons.” Saul helped us design a “Popup” face for our font Up Up And Away font to make this as easy as pie!
Mmmmmm, pie….
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Tips for using open face sound effect fonts and filling them with color.
The Comicraft Glossary of Lettering Terms
Ever wondered what to call those little lines of weathering on the bottom of Sound Effects? Now all you have to do is check The Comicraft Glossary of Lettering Terms — from Air to Zig-Zag Tail, they’re all here!
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Dashed Iron Man Balloons
How to create dashed-line Iron Man style balloons in Illustrator.
Lettering Showcase: Ferran Delgado
Lettering artist Ferran Delgado painstakingly recreates Marvel title pages of yore for the Spanish editions of Marvel Comics. Here we present some of Ferran’s fantastic title pages, along with his thoughts on the lettering process, and the answers to a series of questions he posed to us.
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Files and Formats
Tips on handling different kinds of graphics and font files.
Kurt Busiek on Will Eisner
An excerpt from ‘Comic Book Lettering the Comicraft Way’ on Eisner’s brilliant title page designs.