The letters, numbers and punctuation for a typical English-language font comprise about 100 characters. “No one has ever created a font that mimics pen lettering like we have here in the United States,” he continues, “probably because it’s such a huge undertaking.” He’s responsible for the creation of the hundreds of typefaces that Comicraft currently use to letter many best-selling comics. Fontastic”, who, with Richard, pioneered many of the the computer techniques that are widely used to letter comic books today. “Even though comic books are incredibly popular in Japan, they’re lettered with mechanical typefaces dating back to the 1960s,” notes John Roshell, Comicraft’s “Mr. The Kickstarter aims to raise the funds to see this massive font to completion, so that other comic-book artists and publishers can use it to letter comics in Japanese. What started as Wildwords Manga, a limited font to letter a few short comic strips to promote Blizzard Entertainment’s Overwatch video game, has grown to nearly 2,500 characters over the past year, as more strips were added for World of Warcraft and Hearthstone. Home › Comics › Comic Creator Spotlight › Comicraft Turns Japanese! (with an ambitious new font project, that is…)Ĭomicraft Turns Japanese! (with an ambitious new font project, that is…)Ĭomicraft, the comic-book industry’s leading lettering and design company for over 20 years, is launching a Kickstarter to fund the creation of the first comic book-style lettering font for the Japanese writing system.
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