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.

Binner was designed by John F. Cumming in 1898 and is an alphabet with a strongly historic character. It takes the reader back to the early part of the 20th century, when typefaces of this kind could be found in advertisements on houses and posters. The robust figures display a marked stroke contrast. Particularly striking are the high middle strokes of the E and F as well as the wavy connecting stroke of the H. The curves of the R and P extend well into the lower third of the characters. With its robust figures, Binner is best used for headlines in middle and larger point sizes.

Koch Antiqua is based on forms of old Roman writings, chiseled in marble thousands of years ago. This contemporary version is more playful and reminiscent of the Roaring 20s.

Bright with many interlocking and connecting ligatures and warm with hand-drawn irregularity, Solstice is something to celebrate. Based on the inspiring hand writing of creative friend, Kimberly Mahan.

I made this cartoon book font in my own handwriting. This type of font is great for writing comic stories, children's games, and is perfect for making cartoon movies.

Marqana is an elegant and modern sans serif font. This font is ideal for writing web designs, business cards, or pretty much anything else that requires a unique touch.

Madigan is a high-contrasted, crisp, and attractive typeface. While situated firmly in the category of ‘modern’ types, it appears fancy and lively, showing extravagant details in display sizes.

Rigidica is a strict geometric type family. Often basic geometry is lost in the stroke contrast of a letter. This type family is an attempt to retain this basic geometry even within the stoke contrast of a letter.

Kasuga, Japanese for spring day, is a contemporary script with eastern influence. Kasuga's pointed and fluid brush strokes evoke the orient with just a hint of the west. Kasuga is perfect for designs that need an Asian atmosphere.

Say hello to Ahoy Amigo! A couple of all caps and script brush hand lettering font. Fully stroked by human hand with the authentic traditional handmade vibes to catch up your vintage crafted branding feels. Absolute perfectly imperfect.

Introducing Franqueline Slab, the captivating new typeface family passionately designed by Estudio Vástago and expertly distributed by Sudtipos! This versatile font offers a diverse array of styles, ranging from delicately refined to boldly eye-catching on the weight axis, all elegantly inspired by the timeless Egyptian fonts of the late 19th century. With expressive character and exquisitely unique shapes, Franqueline Slab harmoniously blends the finesse of its delicate strokes with sophisticated endings, resulting in a truly remarkable typography. Every letter in Franqueline Slab has been meticulously crafted to strike the perfect balance between a contemporary edge and a touch of traditional charm, appealing to both the younger generation and typography enthusiasts who appreciate the artistry of the past. Its adaptability makes it ideal for captivating headlines that convey a message of youthful energy and playfulness, while still exuding the timeless elegance that only classic fonts can deliver. Embrace distinction and originality in your designs with Franqueline Slab. Whether it graces an editorial project, logo, or advertising material, this exceptional typeface family will undoubtedly stand out, leaving a lasting impression with its captivating personality. Watch your messages come to life and shine with the unparalleled charm of Franqueline Slab!

This sticky blackletter font owes its street credibility to the texture of torn adhesive tape. Designed to support rehabilitation of the historically tainted Fraktur, its pragmatically shaped majuscules guarantee legibility to a 21st-century readership. They even forgive all-caps usage - a thing you better not try with most blackletter types around. It contains a range of diacritics and ligatures, as well as open type features that substitute alternate glyphs for often repeating characters. With its fine tape strip details you may best use it at poster and headline sizes; at small sizes you interestingly get a nice woodcut appearance. Connoisseurs use it with style, while true blackmetal grimlords curse it for its fashionability!

Nineteen43 is an elegant typeface with inspiration from the timeless classic "Didot" the style often associated with fashion. Giving our own take on the style, making the hairline stokes and thin as possible to maximise the contrast to the bolder strokes making it a perfect for display use. Nineteen43 has its own unique quirks with striking, bold, abrupt thicker vertical strokes. Elegant smooth serifs and bars not always meeting up with stems like you would expect. You can also purchase the printed specimen book here

Notes And Quotes is a font duo that includes a bold typewriter font and a casual script font. The contrast between the fonts makes it a striking pair, perfect for logotype design, modern branding and packaging, quotes and social media posts. Notes And Quotes includes 6 fonts: a handwritten script font with a slant alternative and a bonus set of handwritten doodles (underlines, circles, words and short sentences, etc) a bold typewriter font with a "jumpy" alternative and a set of bonus misprints and grungy elements

Kuta Bali is an elegant signature script font inspired by the beauty and grace of a beautiful culture. It’s suitable for branding, product packaging, or creating custom logotypes that really stand out. Its unique style strikes a perfect balance between classic and contemporary, adding a touch of sophistication and elegance to any design project. Thank You.

Gorgeous Girl is our newest script font created with sweet and sweet hand strokes, with subtle touches and dramatic curves making this font unique. This bold calligraphy font is designed with a relaxed but elegant background, while still paying attention to the beauty of each letter, there are alternate options for lowercase letters, so that it automatically beautifies the visual appearance in your design project. besides that, this font also offers harmoniously beautiful abstract typography for your various design projects. This font is also perfect for wedding invitations, quote designs, for social media business designs, advertisements, trademarks, food and beverage promotion banners, text, posters, signatures, and any design that requires handwriting. This font is equipped with uppercase, lowercase, numbers, punctuation marks, swhases and several variations on each character including multi-language. ================================================== This font is best suited for open type friendly applications. How to get alternative glyphs from open type fonts: http://adobe.ly/1m1fn4Y PUA Character Code - Fully accessible without additional design software. we hope you enjoy this font. Feel free to send whatever message you want to convey.

Following the huge success of Legendary, Manuel Corradine proudly introduces his new ornamented script font. He remarks: “Designing Plebeya was a very tough and exhausting process, but learning to use it correctly and harnessing its whole potential is equally a job demanding great skill and dedication”. Plebeya is a font with an elegant and decorative style. Its calligraphic strokes are full of minute imperfections evoking real hand writing and provide it with a rustic and natural touch. Because of this we advise to preferably use it in the smaller sizes and only in larger ones when consciously you want to highlight its rustic characteristics. Plebeya is ideal for logos and short texts design, but can also be very useful in a wide variety of applications like wedding invitations, magazines, restaurant menus, advertisement and in any project requiring a touch of elegance and exclusivity. Its wide set of alternative ornated characters make Plebeya Pro an excellent tool for both the professional designer as well as any enthusiast wishing to elaborate a project with unique style.

Delyndo signature script handmade font. Monoline contrast stroke, fun character with a bit of ligatures and alternates. To give you an extra creative work. This font is good for logo design, Social media, Movie Titles, Books Titles, a short text even a long text letter and good for your secondary text font with script or serif. Make a stunning work with Delyndo font. Cheers, Maulana Creative

Billion Dreams is a cool logotype script font. It has thick brush strokes that gives character and personality to any graphic. It contains stylistic alternates, swash alternates, ligatures and swash characters -- all to give the font a great variability and avoid repetitiveness. It has an extensive lingual support, covering all European Latin scripts. The font contains all characters you'll ever need, including all punctuation and numbers.

Slowly Moment is a modern script font it's monoline and clean stroke with fun character. Slowly Moment support multilingual more than 100+ language. This font is good for logo design, Social media, Movie Titles, Books Titles, a short text even a long text letter and good for your secondary text font with sans or serif. Make a stunning work with Slowly Moment script font. Cheers, Maulana Creative

This font set was developed for the Albright-Knox Art Gallery and their 1999 Monet exhibition, Monet at Giverny: Masterpieces from the Musée Marmattan. Monet Regular is a fairly straightforward script font with an undulating thick and thin stroke. Monet Impressionist is a semi-legible script which can be used for decorative rather than communicative purposes. Monet Sketches features 26 icons related to Monet's imagery.

Beristone is a beautiful handwritten monoline signature script font. With its elegant and fluid strokes, it exudes a sense of sophistication and personal touch. The font features smooth lines and graceful curves, creating a natural and authentic handwritten look. Beristone is perfect for adding a stylish and personalized touch to logos, branding materials, invitations, and any design project that calls for a refined and contemporary script font.

Roselates is a modern script and sans font duo. With light script and thin condensed sans stroke, fun character with some of ligatures. To give you an extra creative work. Roselates font support multilingual more than 100+ language. This font is good for logo design, Social media, Movie Titles, Books Titles, a short text even a long text. Make a stunning work with Roselates font. Cheers, MaulanaCreative

Kastela is a brush script font. It is inspired by brush lettering and has a soft and welcoming look. Kastela can be used for branding, logos, packaging and wherever you need a script font that is easy to read and smooth. Kastela has many ties, strokes, and alternative characters that will make your designs unique and beautiful. All Style Alternatives also have language support.

Bugatine is a captivating handwritten monoline signature script font. With its graceful curves and fluid strokes, this font exudes an air of elegance and sophistication. Bugatine perfect for branding, logos, invitations, and more. Let your words dance across the page with this mesmerizing font that effortlessly captures the essence of hand-drawn beauty.Handwritten, Handwriting, Script, Monoline, Signature, Vintage, Stylish, Calligraphy, Wedding, Logo, Fashion, Feminine, Magazine, Branding, Elegant

Antisa Brush is a super casual hand brushed script with detailed brush stroke texture, and a quirky, Can be used for various purposes. such as the title, signature, letterhead, signage, labels, newsletters, posters, logos, correspondence, wedding invitations, badges, etc.

Ainan is an elegant and soothing script font designed and published by Eko Bimantara in October 2022, the typeface is carefully crafted with smooth strokes and proportional letterforms. Perfect for various design and creative needs, branding, logo, header, titles.

A new script label typeface named Spicy Taste. This typeface contents caps and small letters, numbers, punctuation signs and some alternates for small letters. This is a handwritten brush font with authentic dry brush strokes like drawn on paper.

Bostine Brush is a super casual hand brushed script with detailed brush stroke texture, and a quirky, Can be used for various purposes. such as the title, signature, letterhead, signage, labels, newsletters, posters, logos, correspondence, wedding invitations, badges, etc.

Based on the writing used by the Copts in ancient Egypt, the font includes alphabet and numeral symbols. NOTE: this font comes with a comprehensive interpretation guide in pdf format.

Out from a turn-of-the-century cartoon, Pennywhistle evokes the silly symphonies and merry melodies of an earlier age, while playing footloose and fancy free for a modern age.

Party Noids goes all the way - from cartoonish to romantic, from funny to serious. Write in all caps, all lowercase or mix upper and lowercase to create ounces of fun!

inspired by my beloved wife's handwriting, starting with a scribble, consists of thick and thin lines These fonts are suitable for letter writing, decoration, display, birthday, wedding and for logos

Cruisader is a cool, fresh and modern display font. This font would be ideal for writing web designs, business cards, or pretty much anything else that requires a unique touch.

This series of free fonts features symbols and icons for use in information graphics. Glyphyx One includes symbols related to transportation, while Glyphyx Two includes symbols related to leisure activities.

Amelyan is a sweet and friendly calligraphy font. Fresh and neat, this font is ideal for writing wedding invitations, cards, or any other design that might need a fun touch!

A cutesy wootsy, love note-writing, school girl font. Cutesy Wootsy PW is available in OpenType, PostScript and TrueType format. The OpenType format includes a handful of ligatures and alternates.

What do you use to write a price tag at a store or to design a wall menu in a cafe? What to choose – a marker or chalk? Now it makes no more sense to be torn apart by the choice – use both techniques for your design. Walls fontfamily allows to perfectly combine an eco-friendly style with contemporary motives. Walls fontfamily supports over 70 languages and consists of 10 typefaces in 5 popular weights (Thin, Light, Regular, Bold, Black). Initially we wanted to create a font that would imitate an inscription made by a square tip marker which is usually used to write price tags at supermarkets, shops and cafes. During the working process we've decided to extend the conceptual boundaries of the Walls fontfamily and added 5 rough typefaces that imitate the style of ecologic chalk writing

Designed in 1928 by Alessandro Butti under the direction of Raffaello Bertieri for the Nebiolo foundry, Paganini defies standard categorization. While it definitely is a classic foundry text face with obvious roots in the "oldstyle" of the Italian renaissance, its contrast reveals a clear underlying modern influence. In a typical Italian artistic fashion, Paganini manages to be a superb text face while having enough priceless ornamental moments to make it great in display uses as well: Check out the splayed M, the wide-tailed g, the flowing tail on the y, the high-armed k, etcetera. While the original metal version was limited to five basic fonts, this digital expansion includes small caps in the three main upright weights, plenty of alternate forms in all fonts, a super-seductive Open font, and an expanded language support covering the majority of Latin-based languages.