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Typographic traditions

Typographic traditions - Illustrator Tutorial

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Typographic traditions

- You might expect comic books to obey the basic rules of typography, but you would be wrong. Wrong I tell you! Comic books follow no rules but their own. They're free agents, vigilantes, misunderstood, operating outside the law but following their own code of justice. And if we take a closer look at this first block of text, I see three rules we're going to need to break to make this look a little more comic book-y than it is. First one, at the very first letter there, see that letter I with the bar on the top and bottom? We call that the crossbar I. That's in the capital letter I of all of our fonts. So, if you type a capital I, you get the crossbar I. If you type the lowercase I, you just get the straight up and down I. Now, the only time you want to use the crossbar I is for the word, the pronoun, I, as in I am a good letterer! You'd also use it for I'm, or I'll, or I'd. Those kind of situations are the only time in a comic book you want to see that crossbar I. So, when we copy…

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