
440: Workflows with Thom Zahler
Mac Power Users
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How to Get Started With Comic Book Fonts
When you really get into it it's kind of zen I mean it's a lot like calligraphy. can't imagine how long that would take by hand back when I was doing it and I think I'd lettered 40 is my record but that was not good. You use the find font command so that your your base lettering is all the roman font and then your bolds or you know switch them to bold near italics or in italics and they're weird like cartooning traditions That's done with a pen called a hawk quill which are kind of wedge shaped yeah essentially you're making that wedge the same angle as you write with so that all your horizontal
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