My favorite comic-style fonts, all on sale

01.01.2010

This is the legendary “Like Comic Sans, Only It Doesn’t Suck” face, and one of the first Comicraft fonts I ever bought. It’s my default font for all presentations. Be sure to get the International version for all the bells and whistles.

As Comicraft’s name implies, they’re famous for their comic book lettering fonts. In fact, if you’ve bought a comic book in the past few years, it’s almost a certainty that it was lettered using Comicraft fonts…assuming that the whole digital lettering job wasn’t contracted out to Comicraft to begin with. They have dozens of hand-lettered styles in their catalog.

I seem to buy a new hand-lettered font or three every year. Namely,

(Everyday price: $395)

Yes, the most expensive font they sell. It’s tighter and darker than “Hedge”; I tend to use it for more “talky” bits of text.