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Each month, we answer a lettering question, or provide a tip or trick
via our Balloon Tales website and newsletter. Here's the latest entries:
Tutorial: Creating the Moritat font
July 1, 2009
The creation of Moritat's lettering font for Elephantmen War Toys: Yvette. A day's work compressed into three minutes...
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Text and the City: Route 66
April , 2009
For spring break this year, I drove the family through SoCal and Arizona in an RV. The Grand Canyon was jaw-droppingly awesome, but the highlight of the trip for me was cruising Route 66 and looking for old road and motel signs. The family thinks I'm weird, but too bad -- I'm driving!
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Production: Aged Comic Cover
July 1, 2008
How to create an aged, crusty old-looking comic cover.
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Lettering: Thought Balloons
April 15, 2008
How to create thought balloons in Illustrator.
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Lettering: Opentype Ligatures
August 7, 2007
How to enable custom ligatures that automatically substitute any two letters in a row, or disable them if you prefer.
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Text and the City: San Francisco
June 1, 2007
San Francisco is just full of cool old metal signage. Here's some we found in and around Fisherman's Wharf and Chinatown.
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Heroes Comics
May 1, 2007
Fabrice Sapolsky interviews John Roshell about his work on the Heroes website and webcomics for the French magazine Comic Box.
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