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10th July 2006, 8:49am
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#1 | | Born with a tail
Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: location, location
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| Kreepy Kat lettering
What do you think - should I invest in a slick looking comic font to letter the Kreepy strips, or stick with my ramshackle hand-lettering?
Personally I prefer the character of handwritten speech balloons, but quite a few webcomic afficionados/geeks have suggested using a digital font instead.
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10th July 2006, 9:12am
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#2 | | Rhymenocerous
Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: In a puddle
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| Re: Kreepy Kat lettering
Hand lettered, aye. | |
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10th July 2006, 9:16am
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#3 | | I hate your band SuperMod
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| Re: Kreepy Kat lettering
Hand-lettered all the way.
Fake handwriting has no soul.
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10th July 2006, 10:06am
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#4 | | Born with a tail
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| Re: Kreepy Kat lettering
But what's wrong with Comic Sans? It's so curvy and friendly looking.
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10th July 2006, 11:28am
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#5 | | Stagger like you mean it
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| Re: Kreepy Kat lettering
I like it the way it is 
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10th July 2006, 11:31am
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#6 | | v.i.p
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| Re: Kreepy Kat lettering
same! keep it the way it is! its much nicer(imo)
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10th July 2006, 12:12pm
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#7 | | (suicidemachine)
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| Re: Kreepy Kat lettering
why not create your own font. It might take a bit of time, but will save you even more in the future | |
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10th July 2006, 12:57pm
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#8 | | I hate your band SuperMod
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| Re: Kreepy Kat lettering
Nah, it’s pointless creating a ‘handwriting’ typeface. Just write by hand instead. Why try to fake it? So that every time you type an ‘e’ it looks the same? That just leads to words with repeated letterforms like ‘coffee’ looking fucking stupid.
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11th July 2006, 1:25am
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#9 | | STEVE HOLT!
Join Date: May 2001 Location: NYC/London
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| Re: Kreepy Kat lettering
Could have two sets and assign one to upper case and one for lower case, to vary it a little. | |
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11th July 2006, 1:33am
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#10 | | LAST SONG KILL AUDIENCE
Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Glesgae
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| Re: Kreepy Kat lettering
Speaking as a long-time comic fan, I really like your hand lettered style.
But you should really just go with you want. | |
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11th July 2006, 8:06am
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#11 | | Born with a tail
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| Re: Kreepy Kat lettering
I think I'll stick to the hand writing, I'm scared of what poprock will do to me if I go for a generic font. | |
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11th July 2006, 8:22am
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#12 | | ShakingTheDisease SuperMod
Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Ptolomea
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| Re: Kreepy Kat lettering
Looks like there's enough variety in your lettering that choosing a font would stifle the expression somewhat: in strips like the "Hello pussy cat, my name's Daisy" it'd be a nightmare to achieve anything approaching the look of the text in the second panel (or indeed the third).
It looks good as it is to me.
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11th July 2006, 8:30am
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#13 | | Born with a tail
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| Re: Kreepy Kat lettering
You've posted some copyrighted material right there, buddy.
My lawyers are currently screaming through traffic to come kick your ass. | |
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11th July 2006, 8:35am
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#14 | | ShakingTheDisease SuperMod
Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Ptolomea
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| Re: Kreepy Kat lettering
They'll never take me alive! *swallows suicide pill*
It did occurr to me (that's why I didn't include the last frame or the characters who are speaking!) I'll remove it if ya like but I couldn't link directly to it on your site and I didn't want to make what would be a much less meaningful comment without visual support.
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11th July 2006, 8:50am
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#15 | | Born with a tail
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| Re: Kreepy Kat lettering
Just being silly mate | |
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