Digital Typeface

Below are a selection of digital typefaces which I found and downloaded from DaFont. These were positioned on a Photoshop document and printed out. Beneath you can see the original Photoshop documents of all the types I gathered.

Printing out these variety of types I annotated around the edge of each printed page with the pros, cons, similarities and even differences between each font. Below is the finished annotated sheets.

Once I'd finished annotating I began to put some digitally downloaded fonts onto a draft I'd made of my work. This in turn helped a great deal, and gave me the ability to eliminate different styles of font which did not match the feel of my product. All of the following screenshots show only the placement of my title, without anything else on the front over. I do plan to add more, but at this stage I am only interested in how the typeface looks. Below is the front cover design I had created based on a draft, and re-made in Photoshop.

For the first example I've tried below you can see that the type I've sampled is a handwritten, sans serif font. I do in fact like the look this font gives. The opacity throughout this specific font gives a more organic feel, and lends itself to the fact that this is a small press / underground comix, something which is created normally by one person instead of a larger group.

Again, like the design above with the opacity showing through the type and giving a more hand-drawn feeling to my comic, I prefer this design instead of more computer generated typefaces.

With this font, the stylized display it has is very appealing, but sadly it looks as though it was created on a typewriter. Although the design of the font does look effective, it doesn't lent itself to the type of pure hand created feel I'm searching for. The style looks to mechanically created.

I'm not the biggest fan on the typeface you can see present below due to the fact it looks so bulky, and bold. Though the one pro about this type is the texture and chunks which are missing throughout the letters. This effect gives the type a less mechanical look, although it still looks to ' in your face ' compared to the other types I've favoured previously.

Below I placed a script typeface onto my cover, and quickly realized that this type of font did not fit well with the style of my comic at all. Therefore I will not be using a script font on my font cover. I also will not be using a script front on my front cover because it is less legible than a hand written one.