Great fonts for Onomatopoeia?

[SpavVy]

In a few weeks I'm going to have my comic copyrighted so I'm currently cleaning up and making the pages neat before I have it sent out. The fonts that I use for sound effects are kind of...bleh, so I'm looking for some new fonts to use that are free to the public domain. I currently use dafont.com and Blambot but they are vary limited on fonts that are free or having fonts that I actually like.

[abbastudios]

It would best to just bite the bullet and buy fonts you like.

Blambot fonts are very inexpensive and well made. Any free fonts outside of that are just knock-offs of legitmate fonts. Knock-offs are not well made or as good as the original. If you know anything anout typography, it's easy to see.

You should also keep the fonts you intend to use small. The lettering becomes a part of the look you will establish for yourself. You don't to buy lots of fonts.

If you wait until New Years, then you can get some great fonts from Comicraft during their yearly sale. All fonts are under $30. That means even the $100 and over fonts.

[TrustyShamrock]

not aaalll the free fonts are bad. or maybe i just think that since i only get free fonts and dont know what the good life tastes like. but i use a bunch of fonts (i cant remember where i got them. probs dafont)
but the ones i used mostly are called Comix Loud, Crashlanding, Foo, Action Comics, and HoW tO dO sOmEtHiNg

[SpavVy]

@abbastudios Yeah but I'm not willing to pay $20.00 or more for certain fonts, personally I think that's just ridiculous plus I'm already spending a lot of money to get my stuff copyrighted.
Thanks for the info though.

[SpavVy]

@TrustyShamrock they are all on dafont.com but I cannot legally use them while I get my work licensed unfortunately because they are only made for personal use :/

[BambooKoi]

Not saying that this is the only option but how about trying to make your own fonts? Requires a lot of time and hard work but it's not like you can sue yourself. Just thought I'd put this out there since no one else has mentioned it.

[TrustyShamrock]

really? that sucks nevermind then :/
well i put a little bit of a looksy into it now cuz this seems import and have ya looked at Blambot? it seems like they have some free fonts that they're ok with indie comic makers using their free fonts http://www.blambot.com/license.shtml
i mean reading through that seems a little confusing actually. so im not sure what their cut-off is for indie comics. but its worth takin a look i guess

[SpavVy]

@BambooKoi I've been considering on making my own for a while.

[apurviance]

The free effects fonts I have are these. You'll have to search because I don't remember where I found each.

• Feast of Flesh for ripping and slashing
• Flying Leatherneck is similar but also good
• Grinched Regular is a more cartoony font
• Motrhead Grotesk
• Young Frankenstein
• WebLetterer BB Bold a standard comic font
• Nosegrind Demo Regular graffiti font that might work
• Blackoak for deep "booms"
• And finally Ariel Black and Impactand Molot or Poplar Std Black works well if you shift each letter up and dawn and rotate some slightly.

The trick with fonts is don't settle for default settings. Be sure to adjust the letter spacing (kerning) and line spacing until you get something that looks good with the font of your choice. Also, if you add a lot of special effects then go with a simpler font so people can read it.

You and try to make your own font using this. it works for some people but not for everyone. Stay within the lines and use a thick pen.

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[abbastudios]

Artists have always had to pay for supplies. It's the nature of the beast.

I used cheap brushes, because I didn't want to pay for the expensive Windsor-Newton brushes. After being convinced to buy one, i have never bought anything other than Windsor-Newton. It was a good investment in myself.

That's how we need to think of it. We're not just buying stuff from a store, we are making investments in ourselves that yield results we can see.

I mat have been a starving artist when i bought the Windsor-Newton brush, but after I did and saw the control I had with the brush, i no longer had a povery mentality.

[gateofselidor]

Honestly, if they have one you like, $20 is nothing for a font. Many other paid fonts cost hundreds of dollars, and the Blambot ones are high quality. They even have a 10% off discount code on their front page at the moment. I bought a paid font from Blambot for my comic dialogue and I've never regretted it. I've paid more for paper to pencil the pages on than I have on that font, and I can use it for future comics as well.

For my sound effects, a lot of them I've just been lazy and tweaked the dialogue font a little, but for more elaborate FX I've started to just hand draw them. It's more fun that way, and I can do whatever I like.

[SpavVy]

@abbastudios That I'm fully aware of, I'm not as ignorant about artists needing to pay for supplies as you may think. I'm a digital and traditional artist, the programs I use did not come cheap and the same goes for my traditional art supplies.
I bought Manga Studio 5 for $47.00 on Amazon which was a pretty good deal, Prismicolor coloring pencils was about $30.00 bucks, My G-Pen pack $6.99, DELETER Manuscript paper $14.85 for each pack I bought, DELETER ink $7.49+, My light box was about $50.00 and all my pigma liners together have to be somewhere in the 100's.
Besides I've already found some great fronts to go with my project that are FREE, I'm not going to dish out money just to download certain fonts and sometime in the future when I have time I'm going to make my own. I'm already pouring out a ton of money to get my stuff protected so I'm not willing to pay for decorative letters, it's just not happening with me, at least not right now. If I ever join the support program in the future then I'll consider it.

[abbastudios]

It only costs $35 to copyright your work as a group in one-shot.

I've paid over $300 for software so we have different ideas about what is cheap, because $300 was a bargain to me. $30 is just change compared to that. I've paid much for my physicsl supplies also.

I never implied anything about you, i don't know your situation. I'm giving you options and telling why based on my personal experience.

I'm just offfering suggestions and alternatives like everyone else, so you don't have to keep coming at me about what you want to do. Just ignore it if it's not what you want to do. Let's keep this friendly.😀

[SpavVy]

@abbastudios Copyrighting my comic is going to cost me a lot more than $35 from what this lady I emailed told me...

The total charge is $135.00 plus a $35 filing fee for a single author, same claimant, one work, not for hire or $55 all other filing including more than one work or more than one author. We also offer a member rewards program with an initial $30 dollar set up fee and then 15% off all future orders. Please visit our website, www.copyrightregistry-online-form.com and fill out the form on our page.

Thank you,
Alycia
Order Processing Dept

And really sorry, I'm not trying to sound like I'm lashing out at you but I'm not willing to pay for that kind of thing when I can find free fonts online that are just as good. I work in retail and I don't earn a whole lot of money so this is why I'm not going to do it.

[gateofselidor]

Can I ask why you're registering your work in the first place? It's already copyright to you under US law just by virtue of the fact that you drew it. Having a certificate is really only useful if you're planning on taking someone to court over infringement.

Also, you don't need to use a third-party service like the one you're linking to. You can do it directly through your government's own website for it.

[yvettegustafsson]

Sorry if I'm being "that guy", but for Onomatopoetic words it's really awesome to try to make it into a piece of the art! Since they're not only words - but sounds - it could be awesome to incorporate the sound into the lettering and that is hard to find finished letters that will look like different sounds.

Everything in comics is not fun - but this is a thing to have fun with!

[SpavVy]

@gateofselidor It's kind of a personal thing but I have had my stuff stolen before most recent was about a week ago. As for the creation already being copyright to me by US law from what I heard that may change pretty soon. I hope it doesn't.

[abbastudios]

I have registered a lot of my art on a single application for one fee because I grouped it as a collection and gave it a collection title.

See these links
http://www.copyright.gov/eco/help-type.html
An excerpt:
What Can Be Included on a Single Application

For published works, all works published in a single unit of publication and owned by the same copyright claimant may be the subject of a single registration.

Collection of Unpublished Works: Registration of Multiple Unpublished Works as a Single Claim

To register a number of unpublished works with a single application and fee, they must be grouped as a collection under a Collection Title and must meet the following requirements:
• At least one author must have contributed to every work.
• The ownership of every work in the collection must be the same. This means that the authors of each work must be the same or they must have transferred copyright to each other or to a common claimant. If there has been a transfer of ownership, the application must include a transfer statement on the claimant screen. If ownership of all the works to be registered is not the same, one or more separate applications are needed to register all the works. Each application requires a separate fee.

http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ44.pdf
An excerpt:

A single registration can be made for cartoons published as a unit (for example, a comic book), provided that the copyright claimant is the same for all elements in the unit. Two or more unpublished cartoons or comic strips can be considered for registration as a unit on a single application when submitted with a nonrefundable filing fee and a nonreturnable deposit of the work if the following four conditions are met:A single registration can be made for cartoons published as a unit (for example, a comic book), provided that the copyright claimant is the same for all elements in the unit. Two or more unpublished cartoons or comic strips can be considered for registration as a unit on a single application when submitted with a nonrefundable filing fee and a nonreturnable deposit of the work if the following four conditions are met…

[abbastudios]

Everyone can easily save money by drawing your own sound effects. I feel every artist should do that anyway.

I’ve written and shown the value of an artist doing their own sound effects on my blog

Sound Effects Part 1

Sound Effects Part 2

Sound Effects Part 3

[addisynparsons]

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