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.

Hollenbeck JNL is the Art Deco, all-caps cousin of Jeff Levine's Hallandale JNL typeface. This version utilizes the thick-and-thin stroke weights so popular during the Art Deco era, while retaining the look of hand-lettered copy. Best suited at larger point sizes, this font is a nice alternative to the over-used display faces reminiscent of that time period.

Bold mutant light typography. Futuristic astroluxtype. Digital pixels and hex head wrenches from the toolbox were the influence for this font. Hexxes Light and Hexxes Bold are a minimal font set that includes upper and lowercase letterforms which can be used at various sizes but, we consider it to be a headline/display font, best applied larger than 24 points in size.

BookCover is a typeface designed with extreme spot to hit when used in headlines. The contrast of the outer curved shapes with internal rectangular counterforms that bring freshness to the results and a contemporary look. Contains an extensive character map for use in most Latin-based languages. BookCover will help you create eye-catching headlines, posters or book covers to name a few.

Inspired by Timeless, Korpus Serif Pro is a completely fresh redesign of this former Typoart font family. All four styles - Regular, Italic, Demibold and Demibold Italic - contain besides the West and Central European glyph tables also those of Greek and Cyrillic as well as Small Caps and Oldstyle figures. All these features make this font family a highly versatile one.

Costa Rica is a handwritten brush font. The texture from the brush font will make your design more beautiful and powerful. This font is suitable for any design like branding, quotes, t-shirt printing and more. Features: - Accents (Multilingual Characters) - 26 Alternates - 26 Extra Swashes - PUA encoded - Numerals and Punctuations (OpenType Standard) I hope you enjoy it! Best Regards Donis M

Frances Uncial is the work of Michael Gills, who gave the font a strong tactile appearance by lino-cutting the forms before scanning them into digital form. The result is a captivating typeface with classic, antique-looking forms. The rough edges of Frances Uncial font are best highlighted in larger point sizes yet its legibility is retained in smaller sizes.

Dem Bones is a bit of fun-display alphabet (capitals), numbers and punctuation assembled out of the sort of knobbly ended bones that dogs used to gnaw on in all the best childrens cartoons and comics. Thing Gnasher and Gnipper or Spike and Tyke. Dem Bones is particularly apt at Halloween, but can introduce some un at any time of the year...

Created for Jim Lee's Wildstorm books, WildWords has proved to be one of our most popular fonts and has been featured in TIME magazine and the LEGO catalog, as well as used to letter thousands of Manga pages. Comicraft fonts are created BY comic book letterers FOR lettering comic books. Accept no substitutes! See this family related to WildWords: Wild Words Lower

Stefan Claudius developed this font while he was sitting in a small chalet in Denmark with a hot wood-oven and nothing but snow outside. Probably the amount of white led him to make it so thin and to have as much space between the lines as possible. If you have that in mind, it looks best in large sizes.

Dialog is my first sans serif. I had made some attempts earlier, but they didn't satisfy me. Dialog was, on the contrary, so inspiring that I made 19 different fonts of it, the most complete typeface for several years. I usually prefer typefaces with serifs, but I don't miss them in Dialog. The name needs no explanation. Dialog was released in 1993.

Introducing the new elegant Mulan! For those of you who need a touch of elegance combining classic style with modern calligraphy style for your design, this font is made for you! WHAT'S INCLUDED? Mulan was built with OpenType features and includes initial and ending stylistics, alternative characters for most lowercase letters, numbers, punctuation, alternatives, ligatures and also supports other languages.

Mahameru Arabic is sibling of Mahameru with the addition of Arabic glyphs, for Arabic, Urdu, and Farsi. With still gives a firm and soft character, with the terminal point on straight and curved strokes. The family has 9 weights ranging from Thin to Black and offers a lot of features flexibility that will help you find the best typographic color for your project.

Oriole Bird is a modern calligraphy script to bring an elegance to your designs - branding projects, social media, wedding invitation, greeting cards, packaging, logo design, news, titling, headlines, posters, signboards and more. It features multi language support (for most of Western Europe), contains glyphs with some OpenType features - standard ligatures, alternates for uppercase (beginning swashes) and lowercase letters (beginning and ending swashes).

Mezitha is display font that has an ethnic view with modern style. It's suitable for branding, packaging, printing, poster designs, natural products etc. Mezitha Ornaments contains 3 groups of symbols. 1- Combining Ornaments 2- Repeating glyphs to create borders with finishes. 3- Single symbols. Most of the glyph has alternates and all of them has two version (thick and thin).

Elevate your design to the next level with Necosmic – a display font that radiates futuristic and modern style. Specifically designed to seamlessly integrate into technology, futuristic, and outer space themes, each character reflects innovation, creating an extraordinary impression in every design. Perfect your visual presentation with the sophistication of Necosmic – where progress meets inspiring typography. Necosmic comes complete with : - Multilingual - Allcaps Font & - Symbols

Kirani is a beautiful fonts that I made with the aim to meet the needs of the industry in the creative world for those who are bored with ordinary script fonts. You can also use Kirani for your promotional needs, whether it's for logos, flyers, magazines, brochures or even for advertising. Oh yes, and this font also has multilingual support.

Centima – a geometric sans serif typeface family, built in six styles. The typeface is intended for use in display sizes, but also is quite legible in text and is well suited for editorial and brand design. Centima is released in OpenType format with support for most European languages and includes some OpenType features – proportional/tabular, lining/oldstyle figures, slashed zero, ligatures, fractions.

This family contains 5 weights and ornaments to create an artistic touch to your projects. Has tons of alternates and ligatures. Best for branding, Webdesign project, Clothing brand, logo design, valentine's greetings, packaging, and much more. Comes with a variable format as well as multilingual support, numbers, and currency symbols. Check out Pretty Boy which is a great pair for Losta Frida.

Electrica is a contemporary monospaced typeface family; a tribute to classic typewriters, while designed for today’s needs and media. In spite of taking inspirations from several typefaces used in typewriters (most notably the IBM Selectric), Electrica is far from a revival: it’s a typeface on its own, winking to the past while standing its ground confidently in a contemporary environment.

The display font Docklan arose from experiments of candle-grease and black ink. Book covers, music festivals, wedding invitations or just an essay in school – Docklan will allow you to make a statement in any setting! The lowercases are miniatures of the upper-ones and it comes with a set of basic English/Latin letters and some west European diacritics.

Apple Jam is a sweet and friendly handwritten font. Whether you’re looking for fonts for Instagram or calligraphy scripts for DIY projects, this font will turn any creative idea into a true piece of art! Apple Jam comes with: 3 font styles: regular, bold, light uppercase & lowercase standard punctuation & numbers special accents & characters for most of the European languages cyrillic typeface

Midnight is a neon-sign-style font with two "gauges," Light and Bright. Works best when used in reverse against a dark background. The styles have a 2:3 ratio, as do the gauges of the neon "tubing," making both fonts equally useful across a range of applications. An elegant, stylish, wonderfully rendered display font. Comes with a complete character set.

The fonts in this family of six files contain 62 original dingbats in 5 variants, and 26 original dingbats in 2 variants plus 10 tilable patterns (Glitter Medley). For best results use layered. Note: Please be aware that you may need to prepare those patterns in order to work with them in CAD-CAM or if you intend them for bolt cutter etc.

Introducing a new romantic and a beautiful handwritting script font called "Lovely Couple". Come with open type feature with a lot of alternates, its help you to make great lettering. Lovely Couple best uses for invitation, wedding, heading,cover, poster, logos, quotes, product packaging, header, merchandise, social media & greeting cards and many more. This font is also support multi language.

This is a simple and legible tag style font as written with a bullet tip marker. HumanRase includes characters for all uppercase and lowercase keys as well as numbers, punctuation and dozens of other symbols (many more characters than most other tag style fonts). This font works well at large sizes but is also very legible when used for body copy.

A ragged jagged experiment that's sure to fit the needs of any mad scientist or extreme skier dude (you know the type). Features two sets of variations: one set on the uppercase keys and a different set on the lowercase keys. Mix and match them for best effect. No twisted or mangled points in this font. All paths guaranteed technically sound.

Created by Chank in 1992, Ribjoint was Chank’s first attempt at creating a Egyptian, cursive font on the computer. Writing cursive with a pencil sure is easy, but getting all the letters to link up correctly in computerized font format is a bit tricky. Not the most graceful script in the world, but it works good enough for a BBQ pit.

Tropical temptation with Okelani script. Cute hand lettered font inspired by Hawaii islands’ natural beauty and zest. Stylistic alternates gives an additional handmade mood. Your quotes, wedding items would look sooo cute with this font. Also is perfect for social media texts, blogs and much more. Font is Latin multilingual and have uppercase letters, lowercase letters, numbers and basic punctuations.

Swagg is a unique and friendly sans that looks great at any size. Originally starting as a branding project, Swagg is now a full fledged family with 5 weights. Swagg is loaded with goodies like old style figures, tabular figures, true italic, arrows and much more. Most proudly Swagg shows off a Greek alphabet, making it an ideal workhorse family for your collection!

Zipline is a geometric sans built from a folded line or ribbon. Contemporary and stylish, with a certain decorative flair. There are three variants that can can be freely mixed for effect - a solid version, a decorative lined version, and a half-solid version. Most effective used in short words or phrases at larger sizes, where the details can be appreciated.

This is a font to build a Hebrew Bible (Tanach) or any Hebrew prayer book. Magalith Tanach Pro has all Unicode Hebrew marks and others like ShevaNa, Dagesh Chazak, Qamats Katan, and Cholam Chaser. You can even hide marks You don't want to use. This font has a complex and exclusive Programmation of Opentype features. Adobe InDesign is the best program to use.

Mahameru is the name of the peak of Mount Semeru, mean "The Great Mountain" in Sanskrit. This font gives a firm and soft character, with the terminal point on straight and curved strokes. The family has 9 weights ranging from Thin to Black and offers a lot of features flexibility that will help you find the best typographic color for your project.

An extremely low midline marks this offering, based on an “elegant” alphabet found in Samuel Welo’s chapbook, Lettering: Modern and Foreign, published in 1930 by Frederick J. Drake and Company. Definitely different, and Deco at its most debonair. All versions of this font include the Unicode 1250 Central European character set in addition to the standard Unicode 1252 Latin set.

Working as a graphic designer for a long time, I realized importance of alternates. Riveruta is a modern typeface designed especially for those who like to experiment with letters. Lots of alternative letters help in creating logos or names. Create your own unique combination using different options. Suitable for any business, this font is gender neutral and should appeal to most people.

Grizzly Attack is a brush and handdrawn font, this font looks urban, cool, readable, stylish, catchy and easy to use. Grizzly Font is the best choice for your professional design projects, including : logo, poster design, t-shirt, headline, flyer, cd cover album, quotes, business card, branding, magazines, social media, advertisements, product designs, or something that need urban or cool looks.

Hermist - Elegant Serif Font by Sans and Sons Meet our Elegant Serif Font Duo – Extra Light and Italic. The Extra Light variant radiates timeless charm with delicate strokes, while the Italic adds a creative touch with its gentle slant. Together, they bring a natural, graceful beauty to your messages. With Elegant Style this is perfect for branding, logos, invitation, masterheads and more.