While I tend to stick with “paid for” Comicraft fonts you should play around with some of the free ones first to get a feel for comic lettering. By sheer numbers, this also means more free quality comic fonts have also surfaced. Since then thousands of free fonts can be found and downloaded online. There were only two or three worthy contenders.

When I was first hunting for free comic fonts to test out in the early 2000’s the pickings were slim. While digital lettering today can still be a frustrating process it’s miles easier than in decades past. That is when you were talking about dropping in the lettering by hand with a technical pen or a #107 nib. Lettering your comic used to be a nerve-wracking experience. Hand Lettering Your Comic Was Sometimes Ulcer Inducing I wasn’t particularly great – but I was pretty good and lettered around 250 pages in total. It was a nice reprieve from writing, drawing, packaging, Myspacing and marketing our fledgling boutique comic publishing concern. I’d pour a glass of wine (I’m not a wine drinker incidentally), fire up InDesign and get to it. I used to letter all of the various comics that we created back in the mid-late 2000’s. Meaning it blends seamlessly with the art to make an amazing reading experience. When done right – you tend not to notice great comic book lettering.