Comic Book Fonts: Blambot
Comic book lettering used to be done in pencil and ink, right on top of the artist’s original drawings. This process wasn’t just slow, it was dangerous. One slip-up could ruin an entire page’s worth of work. These days, almost all comic letterers do their work in software like Illustrator where they can throw down speech bubbles and do their actual lettering as fast as they can cut and paste dialogue.
Of course, fanboys aren’t ready to see Wolverine’s cantankerous quips set in Futura, so a cottage industry of comic book type design has developed. Blambot offers a ton of their professional-grade lettering fonts for free, as well as some nice “sound fx” and “headline” typefaces.
Also very useful is their .eps file of speech bubbles which, if nothing else, can make for some entertaining photo captions for all those Easter pictures.
Thanks to the approximately one million people who have emailed me about Blambot since Fontleech’s very first day on the web.
5 Comments
Miss Tiffany / March 29, 2005 @ 3:25 pm
Just a little note, the fonts offered as free downloads are not the same as the pro fonts. I would also highly recommend reading the license agreement before you go off and use them. The last item in the license states, “unless you are an independent comic creator and you intend to use them for a commercial project there is a license fee.”
doctorfrog / March 30, 2005 @ 12:44 am
’bout time! Blambot also links to a forum helpful for web comic creators.
peter murray / March 30, 2005 @ 5:44 am
thank you
mark / March 31, 2005 @ 7:49 am
I think there is a new comic book movement, like that new movie called “Sin City” coming out this summer. The entire movie background is like a comic book—like that skycaptain movie. The credits of Sin City are all in comic book type script.
MeLissa / April 1, 2005 @ 10:15 am
Thanks! My first time at Fontleech and already something we will use very much!
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