What are all the programs and fonts you use for the type-setting when you translate the comics Tanamai-sensei posts as well as the chapters, if you don't mind me asking? I've been using IbisPaintX and I was wondering what fonts you used and if you had any suggestions, since you do everything so professionally! Ty!
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the gist of it is (and these typesetting tips apply to drawing comics yourself too! so often i see comics with great art but subpar font choices and typesetting it makes me so sad 😔):
look at what fonts are in the raws and roughly assign each one an english equivalent
font size consistency. all ur dialogue bubbles should be within a ~5px range (can be squeaked smaller if u have to fit a lot of text in a small bubble) (and ofc can be bigger for pages that are mostly art and 1 big speech bubble)
keep to about 2-3 fonts in one panel for dialogue (but for sfx and background text, do whatever u want) like this is clearly far too many different fonts in the same panel idk why i thought this was okay ⬇️ do not do this. do not be past me
different series want different assortments of fonts. like yohaji is a slapstick comedy with a lot of explosion noise and yelling so you gotta have a big selection for those kinds of fonts. but for a chill school life romcom youll want more cutesy handwrity fonts.
i often find switching to a different font for a serious scene (when the jp gets the bold font) can end up coming off kinda cheesy. the bold italics version of your normal dialogue font drives home the "serious" feeling much more effectively
you neeeddddd punctuation so badd. jp often drops the punctuation even if its a question or exclamation. you gotta add it in. each bubble needs to at least end with a period or comma or ellipsis. use ellipsis as much as u want whenever it feels right. also i personally prefer interrobangs this way -> ?! rather than !? but u can figure out which way u like more
pay attention when ur reading other mangas of what kind of fonts theyre using when. think about why you like or dislike that choice. use online font identifier to get the font or a close enough looking font
i use photoshop 2019 for chapters, but sometimes i use ibispaint for more casual stuff like the twitter comics. dont just use programs bc ppl online say so, try a variety and figure out what functionalities are or arent important to you. i was using clip studio before ch90 but after that i figured photoshop made it a lot easier to install fonts, clean pages, the text tool is better than csp's, and the typertools addon is very handy. (csp is still better as a "art" program and the brushes are more comfortable and id love to use them for redrawing, but moving files between 2 programs is a pain so ill just tough it out with photoshop) but for casual stuff like twitter comics i really only need 1 or 2 fonts at most, the cleaning isnt too intensive and i get to work on it if im outside and have a free moment.
the scanlation school discord has a lot of helpful tutorials, font downloads, etc etc
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