Adding Fonts
Comic Life comes with a very useful comic lettering font (DigitalStrip) that's great for many projects but you will soon be looking for more fonts to add variety to your effects, titles, balloons and captions.
There are literally hundreds of quality fonts available for free on the web and some are very useful for making comics. There are even a few web sites that are dedicated to comic fonts - though many of their fonts are not free.
Where to find fonts
Comic Font Sites
These sites have excellent free and commercial comic fonts available for download:
- Blambot - www.blambot.com
- Lots of lettering, titling and sound effect fonts and some free samples.
- dafont.com
- Lots of free fonts covering a variety of styles.
Those sites also have lots of useful tips on creating comics so take a look around while you're there.
General Font Sites
These sites have a wide variety of fonts available for download:
- www.fonts.com
- A huge site with lots of free fonts
Adding fonts
Once you've downloaded a font making it available to Comic Life is very simple.
- If the font is compressed (e.g.: .zip, .sit etc) uncompress it first.
- Go to Control Panel, and click on Fonts.
- Move your fonts into the Fonts folder that opens.
- Open the Font Panel in Comic Life - your new font should now be listed.