How the comic book typeface developed

Where the “comic book font” came from

Vox: So…why does all the writing in comic books look like that? Vox’s Phil Edwards looked into it and found an aesthetic shaped by comics culture, technology, and really cheap paper.

See also

• Todd Klein’s website — I’m best known in comics as a letterer, which I’ve been doing since 1977, working with writers like Neil Gaiman, Alan Moore, Bill Willingham and many others, and collaborating with a host of artists.
• Comicraft & Blambot, purveyors of fine comic book fonts.

• Comic Neue: A more palatable Comic Sans — Free and in the public domain.
• Female superheroes with proper costumes — Michael Lunsford’s fully-dressed redesigns of superheroines.
• How the 2016 Olympic font was created — “Our prompt was that the font had to be an exact replica of the letters in the logo”