Timeline for Why does the comics font look like it looks like?
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| Dec 17, 2016 at 22:41 | comment | added | Stan | Generally speaking, the text used in comic books is rendered with various script typefaces as opposed to roman or italics. | |
| Dec 17, 2016 at 16:14 | comment | added | MMacD | If you look at the Asterix comics, at least the ones Gudrun Penndorf translated into German, use the Univers family. | |
| Dec 17, 2016 at 14:37 | answer | added | MMacD | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 17, 2016 at 13:43 | comment | added | Zach Saucier | Right, some people used a similar font and changed it over time. It looks hand written like the hand drawn comics. Besides that I bet you'd have to have a comic book expert to get a very useful answer | |
| Dec 17, 2016 at 13:39 | comment | added | foggy | @ZachSaucier Oh no, if you watch the video, it's clear there's some kind of evolution | |
| Dec 17, 2016 at 13:33 | comment | added | Zach Saucier | I would assume it's because that's what most comic book artists used | |
| Dec 17, 2016 at 11:29 | history | asked | foggy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |