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Blambot Comic Fonts & Lettering
Company blog · blambot.comdesignwriting
Blambot Comic Fonts & Lettering is the company blog at blambot.com, writing about design and writing. Since 2009, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters point people to Blambot as the place to find comic fonts, many of them free, as better alternatives to Comic Sans. The site is used by comic book creators.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Comic Book Fonts and Custom Design by Blambot.com
What Hacker News says?
You know, there are, and have been many, many good comic fonts out there. Blambot sells them gives many others away for free. This is where actual comic book creators go for fonts. Anytime I see someone insisting on using Comic Sans, I gently inform them that Comic Sans isn't even a good comic font, and point them to Blambot, where they can get better ones. http://blambot.com
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on “Comic Sans, meet Comic Neue”Submitted The Language of the Black Parade as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI love these free comic fonts. http://www.blambot.com/
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on “Why you hate Comic Sans”Submitted Comics grammar and tradition as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWell on top of the tone argument, it's just not a particularly good comic font. There are literally hundreds of similar, but better fonts out there. Check out http://blambot.com for some nice ones. There are plenty there that are more appropriate even for a cartoon dog.
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on “What is wrong with Comic Sans?”Submitted Comic Lettering Tips as a story · 1 points
HN discussionExamples of alternatives? Glad to. Blambot(1) makes a range of great ones, especially Giant Sized Spectacular, and I'm personally partial to Loose(2). (1) http://www.blambot.com/fonts_design.shtml (2) http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/zeptonn/loose/
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on “‘Confessions Of A Designer’, What Goes On In A Designer's Mind”Submitted Better letterer: comic lettering tips as a story · 1 points
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