Earlier in the year,
I blogged about a free service that turned your handwriting into a workable truetype font... The service provided by
yourfonts is no longer free, but I didn't think the font I had was good enough to use for my comic art... There are some fantastic free fonts available on
Blambot for using on comic strips - a link I got from the most excellent gentlemen at
FutureQuake Press - but somehow, using someone else's (comic) font doesn't feel like I'm lettering myself... kind of like borrowing the hands of another letterer - albeit digitally.
I spent some time in illustrator pushing nodes around the natural letter-forms I had produced in my last attempt. Once I had a font I felt might work and that still had some relationship to my block capitals, I went ahead and paid just under £8 for the automated service. I'm very happy with how the font works, I think it looks pretty good too... an example of it in action can be seen in my previous posting.
2 comments:
Money well spent to feel like it's all your own work. Very satisfying. A nicely constructed font. I see the blog has undergone some spring cleaning as well... I must admit I'll miss the old banner as I feel it was more intriguing and distinctive than the confrontational (though excellently executed) Dredd. Perhaps the banner art could update from time to time...? I'm a fine one to talk though, my banner has been like that for ages now!
i meant to get my own done ages ago and now look. oh well, your font does look great though and how much better to have a personalised version. see you soon, x
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