Downloadable Fonts. So many great fonts out there!

So an important part to any comic is how you approach your text and text bubbles. I think white speech bubbles are the most universal and fitting colour for comics. White is a base colour, everything works with it so your pictures wont clash. Font is another important part. Some comics work well with font that looks like type. Some comics look shit with type and a more freehand look is needed. I've written some speech with my wacom tablet but its really not the most efficiant way to it. What I need to do is create my own font out of that freehand text or go online and find someone who has already used a programe to turn their freehand into a keyboard ready font.



There are many great sites that hold a big variety of fonts. It's worth checking them out and just downloading a bunch of free ones. Some you have to pay for, other sites only list free fonts made by good samaritans. Here's a couple of really good sites that should be mentioned. Full of free ones:

http://openfontlibrary.org/font/averia-sans
http://www.1001fonts.com/   (this ones great!! all free as well)
http://www.blambot.com/fonts_sfx.shtml

There is also;

http://www.typographyserved.com
http://www.behance.net

http://new.myfonts.com/http://vi.sualize.us/popular/
http://www.thedieline.com/
http://lovelypackage.com/
http://www.swigstudio.com/
http://www.typographyserved.com
http://www.behance.net

Sound FX fonts (BAM!! CRUNCH!!)

BlamBot.com has a great selection of fx fonts though a lot of them will cost to download.

http://www.blambot.com/fonts_sfx.shtml

Also here are some instructions to install fonts onto your computer (which means that photoshop, illustrator etc. will automatically put them into it's own library of fonts).

For windows:

1. press Start > Control Panel
2. Look for the FOnts Icon .. double click on it
3. File > install new font
4. Locate the folder we created ..
5. when u select the folder the screen will start reading the fonts.
6. Press on Select All
7. Press OK .. Vwala .. u have your new fonts on your PC ..

You usually have to extract a .zip file. Just extract it to a folder you create eg. Tom>fonts and then from there, drag the extracted open type font files, or truetype font files (.ttf, .otf) into the 'Font' file found in the control panel.