Friday Archive Dive: Typography and word balloons
Friday, May 31, 2013 at 9:38AM Today's Archive Dive is a favorite guest post of mine. It's from May 30, when Josh Shaffer shared some of hisexpertise on typography.
Today's topic has been generously submitted by Josh Shaffer. who also shared his technique for creating word balloons using Photoshop with us a while back.
A lot of people make webcomics because they have a background and a love of drawing, but very few have any actual design background or experience. Normally this really wouldn’t matter, but it tends to make the most pronounced and noticeable impact when it comes to computer lettering.
Some cartoonist do letter by hand, and it’s a wonderful look that I wish I had the patience and capability to pull off.
But I don’t.
And by the looks of things, neither do most online cartoonists. When I look around I see that a vast vast majority of cartoonists choose to letter their comics digitally. And why not? It’s faster, cleaner and infinitely easier to edit.