Post by Yuutsumi on Oct 8, 2008 12:56:43 GMT -8
Hi all
As you create your doujinshi's and combine the words to your stories. You may want to use different fonts for describing dialog sound and the sign-work. Some people may find their hand writing in adequate and may want to choose to use a comic book style font. Most fonts are owned by a company and you have to buy a product ti have "the right" to use that font in a publication. Most fonts on Windows or Mac grant you a license because many of the fonts came with you computer's operating system. However, "Free Fonts" you find online don't have these and you have to read the "read me" file that came with the font to find out when-where-and how you can use that font.
I get around this by making my own fonts. The font I use in my comics is called JB-Lefty (because I'm left handed) and it's a font I made based on my own hand lettering. I will probably do a tutorial about making your own fonts soon. Until then here's a list of popular font-sites that are either OpenSource (non-license-fee fonts and editable fonts) or grant independant artists the right to use them for free:
Open Source font sites:
A company called Bitstream makes license-free fonts to intise people to use their software products these fonts can be downloaded from:
ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/ttf-bitstream-vera/1.10/
Note: if you use Linux you probably already have these fonts installed
Other resources for open source projects can be found at:
ifacethoughts.net/2007/10/02/open-source-fonts/
Another great site is Blambot... Nate Peikos is a typographer and comics artist who has an amazing catalog of comic fonts. He offers "pay fonts" for Pros and Free Fonts for independent comic book artists. (However, if you get published professionally you are required to license his fonts for a yearly fee while you use his fonts) but if your a self-publishing project the license is free if you properly credit that the fonts are by "blambot.com". For this site goto:
blambot.com
Hope this helps...I'll do a font-making at some point--- but please know: "I hate making fonts! It's like watching paint dry!" ..ahem.
Edit: For Licensing purposes I would recommend using fonts from the Open Font Library project...all the fonts on this site are covered by the Open Font License and allow for unlimited use:
openfontlibrary.org/
Click on the "fonts tab".
As you create your doujinshi's and combine the words to your stories. You may want to use different fonts for describing dialog sound and the sign-work. Some people may find their hand writing in adequate and may want to choose to use a comic book style font. Most fonts are owned by a company and you have to buy a product ti have "the right" to use that font in a publication. Most fonts on Windows or Mac grant you a license because many of the fonts came with you computer's operating system. However, "Free Fonts" you find online don't have these and you have to read the "read me" file that came with the font to find out when-where-and how you can use that font.
I get around this by making my own fonts. The font I use in my comics is called JB-Lefty (because I'm left handed) and it's a font I made based on my own hand lettering. I will probably do a tutorial about making your own fonts soon. Until then here's a list of popular font-sites that are either OpenSource (non-license-fee fonts and editable fonts) or grant independant artists the right to use them for free:
Open Source font sites:
A company called Bitstream makes license-free fonts to intise people to use their software products these fonts can be downloaded from:
ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/ttf-bitstream-vera/1.10/
Note: if you use Linux you probably already have these fonts installed
Other resources for open source projects can be found at:
ifacethoughts.net/2007/10/02/open-source-fonts/
Another great site is Blambot... Nate Peikos is a typographer and comics artist who has an amazing catalog of comic fonts. He offers "pay fonts" for Pros and Free Fonts for independent comic book artists. (However, if you get published professionally you are required to license his fonts for a yearly fee while you use his fonts) but if your a self-publishing project the license is free if you properly credit that the fonts are by "blambot.com". For this site goto:
blambot.com
Hope this helps...I'll do a font-making at some point--- but please know: "I hate making fonts! It's like watching paint dry!" ..ahem.
Edit: For Licensing purposes I would recommend using fonts from the Open Font Library project...all the fonts on this site are covered by the Open Font License and allow for unlimited use:
openfontlibrary.org/
Click on the "fonts tab".