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This is an experiment using an existing comic of mine and another font I'm working on. The letter images for this font was actually created last year for a project, and is based on my own hand lettering. You can compare it to the original version here: [link]

As a font experiment, I'd like critiques to focus mainly on the font and not the drawings unless it's a matter of how the font and drawings work together.

This font has some variance in line thickness, but is close to uniform. There is also added variety in letter size and placement, mostly affecting "lowercase" vowels (the entire font is uppercase, but there are technically lower and uppercase versions of the letters regardless).

So far, the font works well when combined with some of my rougher work, like sketches and the Teri comics. I think it's a little too condensed to work as well with standard EGS, but that might be because all my tests involve font bubbles made for the more extended Comic Sans.

While I might be able to apply this font to the second Teri comic, the third would require heavy editing of the comic itself. I know this because I already tried with the third, and I originally squished a lot of text in there and the text bubbles aren't really sized for a proper font ^^;

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:iconandroidk18:
Personal niggle but the all caps is annoying to me... like they all converse by shouting at each other.

besides that, it has a similar informal feel to it that comic -sans has without it actually being comic-sans. so I think you did your job well there, if that was your intent.

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:icondanshive:
Does all caps always annoy you? Because most comics are done in all caps.

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:iconthedeciver2:
lol physics, you know what they say rules or..in this case laws are ment to be broken

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:iconraevynwulf:
What you could do is the "small caps" trick - have the lowercase letters be slightly shortened versions of the capital letters.

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:icondero-ashe:
It does seem sort of like they are yelling at each other. It seems just a bit too dark for regular speech, just make it a bit lighter and I think it would work nicely.
:icondanshive:
The font is actually rather light for a comic font naturally. In this case, however, the font is big because this comic is intended to be printed at a mere 5" long. I made the original text and bubbles for it relatively large as a result, and it impacts this version as well.

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El Goonish Shive - A bizarre comic with heart
:icondero-ashe:
I see how that would affect the font size. And I think that in a 5' strip it would look better then it does here. Just trying to give constructive criticism.
:icondanshive:
I know, I'm just explaining why it's so big here ^^;

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:iconbignutter:
Why am I thinking of a Blue Hair Nuclear Physicist?

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