The font Speech Bubbles offers a convenient way to integrate text and image. While the font can be used to design comics, it also gives the typographer a tool to make text speak – to give words conversational dynamics and to emphasize visually the sound of the message. The font includes a total of seventy outlines and seventy bubble backgrounds selected from a survey of historic forms. What follows is a discussion of my process researching and developing the font, as well as a few user suggestions. My work on the Speech Bubbles font began with historic research. My first resource was a close friend who is a successful German comic artist. I had previously worked with him to transform his lettering art into an OpenType font. This allowed his publishing house to easily translate cartoons from German to other languages without the need to use another font, like Helvetica rounded. My friend showed me the most exciting, outstanding and graphically appealing speech bubbles from his library. I looked at early strips from Schulz (Peanuts), Bill Waterson (Calvin & Hobes), Hergé (TinTin), Franquin, as well as Walt Disney. The most inspiring was the early Krazy Kat and Ignatz (around 1915) from George Herriman. I also studied 1980’s classics Dave Gibbon’s Watchmen, Frank Miller’s Ronin and Alan Moore and David Lloyd’s V for Vandetta. Contemporary work was also a part of my research—like Liniers from Macanudo and work of Ralf König. With this overview in mind I began to work from scratch. I tried to distill the typical essence of each author’s or era’s speech bubbles style into my font. In the end I limited my work down to the seventy strongest images. An important aspect of the design process was examining each artist’s speech bubble outlines. In some cases they are carefully inked, as in most of the 80’s work. In others, such as with Herriman, they are fast drawn with a rough impetus. The form can be dynamic and round (Schultz) with a variable stroke width, or straight inked with no form contrast (Hergé). Since most outlines also carry the character of the tool that they are made with, I chose to separate the outline from the speech bubble fill-in or background. 
This technical decision offers interesting creative possibilities. For example, the font user can apply a slight offset from fill-in to outline, as it is typical to early comic strips, in which there are often print misalignments. Also, rather than work in the classic white background with black outline, one can work with colors. Many tonal outcomes are possible by contrasting the fill-in and outline color. The Speech Bubbles font offers a dynamic and quick way to flavor information while conveying a message. How is something said? Loudly? With a tint of shyness? Does a rather small message take up a lot of space? The font’s extensive survey of historic comic designs in an assembly that is useful for both pure comic purposes or more complex typographic projects. Use Speech Bubbles to give your message the right impact in your poster, ad or composition.

Over the past few years, every designer has seen the surprising outbreak of blackletter types in marketing campaigns for major sports clothing manufacturers, a few phone companies, soft drink makers, and more recently on entertainment and music products. In such campaigns, blackletter type combined with photos of usual daily activity simply adds a level of strength and mystique to things we see and do on a regular basis. But we couldn't help noticing that the typography was very odd in such campaigns, where the type overpowers all the other design elements. This is because almost all blackletter fonts ever made express too much strength and time-stamp themselves in a definite manner, thereby eliminating themselves as possible type choices for a variety of common contemporary design approaches, such as minimal, geometric, modular, etc. So extending the idea of using blackletter in modern design was a bit of a wild goose chase for us. But we finally found the face that completes the equation no other blackletter could fit into: Leather is a digitization and major expansion of Imre Reiner's forgotten but excellent 1933 Gotika design, which was very much ahead of its time. In its own time this design saw very little use because it caused problems to printers, where the thin serifs and inner bars were too fragile and broke off too easily when used in metal. But now, more than seventy years later, it seems like it was made for current technologies, and it is nothing short of being the perfect candidate for using blackletter in grid-based settings. Leather has three features usually not found in other blackletter fonts: - Grid-based geometric strokes and curves: In the early 1930s, blackletter design had already begun interacting back with the modern sans serif it birthed at the turn of the century. This design is one of the very few manifestations of such interaction. - Fragile, Boboni-like serifs, sprout from mostly expected places in the minuscules, but are sprinkled very aesthetically on some of the majuscules. The overall result is magnificently modern. - The usual complexity of blackletter uppercase's inner bars is rendered simple, geometric and very visually appealing. The contrast between the inner bars and thick outer strokes creates a surprising circuitry-like effect on some of the letters (D, O, Q), wonderfully plays with the idea of fragile balances on some others (M, N and P), and boldly introduces new concepts on others (B, F, K, L, R). Our research seems to suggest that the original numerals used with this design in the 1930s were adopted from a previous Imre Reiner typeface. They didn't really fit with the idea of this font, so we created brand new numerals for Leather. We also expanded the character set to cover all Western Latin-based languages, and scattered plenty of alternates and ligatures throughout the map. The name, Leather, was derived from a humorous attempt at naming a font. Initially we wanted to call it Black Leather (blackletter...blackleather), but the closer we came to finishing it, the more respect we developed for its attempt to introduce a plausible convergence between two entirely different type categories. Sadly for the art, this idea of convergence didn't go much further back then, due to technological limitations and the eventual war a few years later. We're hoping this revival would encourage people to look at blackletter under a new light in these modern times of multiple design influences.

Stylish Serif is a Modern Retro Vintage Serif Font that we created special for Display, Logo and Branding A new Serif font that is nice to leverage designer or product owner that need solutions to make their design look more gorgeous and vintage. And specially for this font, We prepared any characters to help you create gorgeous for your creative needs specially for headline, and typography needs. Stylish Serif font ready with: Stylish Shape to get creative Preview as a inspirations that you can do with this font Ready with All Uppercase characters Wish you enjoy our font. :)

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Hello, friends. I keep experimenting with handwritten fonts, shapes and lines. I want the font to set the tone, the atmosphere, and look like an inscription made in a hurry, but it is well read. Blushed combines all these qualities. Simple and clear, looks at ease. It is perfect for signatures or design, where you do not need a strict style. Test it out below to see how it could look for your next project! Includes: Uppercase and lowercase Numbers and punctuation Foreign language support Ligatures Check out my blog: https://www.instagram.com/zloillev pinterest.com/dmitriychirkov7 Enjoy

My new font is beautiful and smooth modern calligraphic script with a straight baseline. And I also added a separate font with cute swashes at the beginning and at the end. You do not need special software, everything works simply and clearly :) Mignon will look beautiful on Christmas and holiday invitations, wedding invites and stationery, logos, and more. I love using it for emphasis words and pairing it with serifs. Test it out below to see how it could look for your next project! Includes: Uppercase and lowercase Numbers and punctuation Foreign language support Check out my blog: https://www.instagram.com/zloillev pinterest.com/dmitriychirkov7

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Shelby is friendly and casual; a monoline, semi-connected script typeface based on hand lettering. It has the natural appearance of handwriting, yet can be used to create appealing headlines, logos and eye catching call-outs. Shelby features ligatures, stylistic and contextual alternates, and 20 ornaments designed to complement its handwritten look. See what’s included! http://bit.ly/2bGS9S1 *NOTE* Basic versions DO NOT include swashes, alternates or ornaments These fonts have been specially coded for access of all the swashes, alternates and ornaments without the need for professional design software! Info and instructions here: http://lauraworthingtontype.com/faqs/

A Nostalgic Elegant Serif font that we created special for elegant branding needs, with unique shape will be ready to add value of your brand. It so nice to leverage designer or product owner that need solutions to make their design look more stylish and modern. And specially for Almost font, We prepared any characters to help you create unlimited variations for your creative needs. Almost Nostalgic Serif font ready with: Ready with Regular and Italic version Preview as a inspirations that you can do with Almost font Ready with Lowercase and Uppercase characters Wish you enjoy our font. :)

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Taro Why do designers make more and more geometric fonts? There are already many geometric sans in the world. Because It is a natural flow of design. It is true that we like geometric type instinctively. Taro was designed to archive a good balance between the following three things geometrically. 1. To be Natural, Flowing, Organic. 2. To be Neutral, Unbiased, Universal. 3. To be legible, distinguishable, readable. Consists of eight weights and their matching italics. Supporting almost all latin languages. All-caps text for one line or a few is as wonderful as normal mixed-case typesetting.

A Luxury Love Font that we created special for elegant branding needs, with unique shape will be ready to add value of your brand. It so nice to leverage designer or product owner that need solutions to make their design look more stylish and modern. And specially for Andara font, We prepared any characters to help you create unlimited variations for your creative needs. Andara Luxury Classy Love Font ready with: Unique Luxury Love Characters wit swash as alternates inside Preview as a inspirations that you can do with Andara font Ready with Lowercase and Uppercase characters Wish you enjoy our font. :)

Racing is a Modern Ultra Sport font that created special for Branding, Title and more stand out typography for sport and action. It's so perfect to add your style and headline overview for sport, technology, actions, and fighting theme. And specially for this font, we crafted for bold action style and modern feels so enjoy to create any project that will show your main idea out. Racing Modern Ultra Sport font ready with: Creative characters prepared to get best results Preview as a inspirations that you can do with Racing font Ready with All Uppercase characters Wish you enjoy our font. :)

Thirteen or 14 years ago I admired, out loud, a book I found on a shelf in Matt Carter's office. That Christmas I was pleasantly surprised to find that Matt had found another copy of the book and he gave it to me. The book was about the life of Oswald Cooper and it contained numerous specimens of Cooper's lettering jobs. Among them was an interesting image of 7 letter that spelled out the word 'Robusto'. These letters were used as the model for the font Robusto. All I needed to do was develop 221 other glyphs to finish the font.

Slammer is a Popular Bold Sport Font that created special for Branding, Title and more stand out typography for sport and action. It's so perfect to add your style and headline overview for sport, technology, actions, and fighting theme. And specially for this font, we crafted for bold action style and modern feels so enjoy to create any project that will show your main idea out. Slammer Popular Bold Sport Font ready with: Creative characters prepared to get best results Preview as a inspirations that you can do with Slammer font Ready with All Uppercase characters Wish you enjoy our font. :)

BROAD is a Modern Width or Extended Font Sans Serif perfect for Display Needs A Display Sans Serif font that we created special for unique branding needs, with extended character that will add an unique of your typography style. It's so nice to leverage designer or product owner that need solutions to make their design look more unique and standout. BROAD Modern Width Display font ready with: Lowercase and Uppercase characters (as standard or extended character) Numbers and Punctuations Preview as a inspirations that you can do with BROAD font Available for PC and Mac Wish you enjoy our font.

Introducing Kajju, a premium font family designed to help you create visually stunning projects of any kind. Kajju San Serif comes in 18 different styles and has everything you need for your design projects. This is an all-in-one font pack with a wide variety of font styles to choose from. So whatever your needs, Kajju can do the job! of course, your various design projects will be perfect and extraordinary if you use this font because this font is equipped with a font family, both for titles and subtitles and sentence text, start using our fonts for your extraordinary projects.

As a kid I used to write my favourite football teams name with 3D letters over and over again. I spent hours doing this - often to find out I had the colors wrong, or I had made a spelling error or two - but now, several years after, I have created the "Like a cat" font - so that you can make "handmade" headlines or funny quotes or even your favourite football teams name in a swoosh! If you get the colors wrong, or you make a spelling error, it's fast and easy to correct! :) Like a cat comes with substitution characters for double letters!

Dragmatis Whiplash is a classic font, I built it with my relaxed hands. designing a classic font but having a modern element in it, which makes it particularly suitable for wedding media, book covers, greeting cards, logos, branding, business cards and certificates, in fact for any design work that requires a clasik, formal or luxurious. Includes multilingual support Try Dragmatis Whiplash, enjoy the richness of OpenType features and let her fun and elegant excitement make you happy and enhance your creativity! You can use this font very easily. Do not forget to see, buy, like and share my other great products, klick here.

Tokyo Style is a Modern sans serif display font that special created for Modern needs with unique style. A New Display font that we created special for Unique branding needs, with weird style that ready to add value of your brand. It's so nice to leverage designer or product owner that need solutions to make their design look more unique and urban. Tokyo Style Unique Sans Serif font ready with: All Uppercase characters Numbers and Punctuations Preview as a inspirations that you can do with Tokyo Style font Available for PC and Mac Wish you enjoy our font. :)

Photogenic is a Modern Geometric font that created special for Branding, Title and more stand out typography needs, with extra alternative styles that make your design more memorable. It's so perfect to add your style and headline overview for business, technology, actions, and minimalist theme. And specially for this font, we crafted for minimalist style and modern feels so enjoy to create any project that will show your main idea out. Photogenic Modern Geometric font ready with: Preview as a inspirations that you can do with Photogenic font Ready with Uppercase & Lowercase characters Wish you enjoy our font. :)

Yuki is a full and rounded font that also manages to be compact, so when you need to make a big impact in a small space and still maintain a friendly feel, Yuki is here to do the job. In two different styles, each with bold alternatives, Yuki’s best function is to grab attention without taking up too much space. The lined form allows it to look even more streamlined in this performance, cutting shapes into more easily digestible pieces, while the bold forms create even more smoothness. Use Yuki for quick, impactful statements without being aggressive.

A one-time co-worker of mine sometimes used a fanciful inkpen-style script in display-lettering situations. I liked it a lot. "Phil," I says, "why not do the whole alphabet, maybe a few little dingbats, and I'll make a font." Well, one day he presented me with a stack of posterboard; he'd done some letters, all right -- hundreds of 'em. I managed to boil these down into a typeface called Treefrog, a name that seems to match its organic jumble, its tall x-height, its left- and right-leaning stems, its thick and thin strokes. Full release has many dingbats.

Heading is an Unique sans serif display font that special created for Modern needs with unique style. A New Display font that we created special for Unique branding needs, with weird style that ready to add value of your brand. It's so nice to leverage designer or product owner that need solutions to make their design look more unique and urban. Heading Display Sans Serif font ready with: Lowercase and Uppercase characters Numbers and Punctuations Ready with Regular and Italic Style Preview as a inspirations that you can do with Heading font Available for PC and Mac Wish you enjoy our font. :)

Ginger is a Modern Stylish Font. In a new generations, we analyze that any designer or brand owner need to make their brand standout. As our focus that analyze any typeface that helps to leverage any logo design to look more modern and unique. We prepared this font with any unique characters to help you create unlimited variations for your creative needs. Ginger font ready with: Any options to get creative variations with unique letters Preview as a inspirations that you can do with Ginger font Ready with Lowercase and Uppercase characters Wish you enjoy our font. :)

Kimberly Script is a stylish handwritten calligraphy font, combines from copper slabs to contemporary fonts with dancing baselines, classic and elegant touches. Can be used for various purposes.such as headings, signature, logos, wedding invitation, t-shirt, letterhead, signage, label, news, posters, badges etc. File included: Kimberly Script.otf How do I access the alternate characters? The alternates are accessible by turning on 'Stylistic Alternates' and 'Ligatures' buttons on in Photoshop Character panel, or via any software with a glyphs panel; e.g. Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop CC, Inkscape. If you have any question, don't hesitate to contact me by Email: bonjourtype@gmail.com