Talk:Letterer

Too far?
"a great letterer has as much to do with the quality of the comic as the penciler, inker, writer, or colorist." Hahahaha! Was this article actually written by a comic letterer?


 * I agree that statement may be going a little too far. (This is coming from an amateur who prefers to "digitally hand-letter" -- drawing each letter with a graphics tablet on a computer. I think of it as getting the best of both worlds.) Certainly, though, a bad letterer can ruin a comic just as easily as a bad penciler, inker, writer, or colorist. But with the use of computer fonts, truly bad lettering isn't so common. There is definitely an art to lettering, and I think that the art itself is indeed as important as the art of drawing, inking, etc., but I don't think it has as great an impact on the final product. I'd revise the statement, but I'm not sure how I should. - furrykef (Talk at me) 05:29, 30 December 2006 (UTC)


 * I changed it to sound more neutral. Fishal 14:17, 4 June 2007 (UTC)


 * I would agree with the quoted statement. Bad lettering can ruin a good comic. Great lettering can save a mediocre comic. Good lettering enhances a good comic. Felicity4711 (talk) 01:55, 18 September 2010 (UTC)

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Text Copied Verbatim from Todd Klein or Vice Versa?
Major sections of this page are exactly the same, word-for-word, as Todd Klein’s page on computer lettering (see http://kleinletters.com/ComputerLettering.html ). Unless Todd Klein wrote this Wikipedia entry, someone is plagiarizing someone. Felicity4711 (talk) 01:59, 18 September 2010 (UTC)

possible source for more info
This series of articles could probably be used to expand this page. Argento Surfer (talk) 14:49, 26 June 2014 (UTC)

Letterer, other uses for the term
A letterer is also a term for a traditional stone carver/font maker. Such as slab style, alphabet stones as found on early Colonial carved graved stones in the New England area. They may be related terms? We may need to either edit this page to be more inclusive or create two pages and have a disambiguation page? Example:,  Jooojay (talk) 00:47, 28 December 2015 (UTC)

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A pen
''The traditional comic book letterer needs little more than ... a pen...''

Very informative. A ball point pen?2A02:AA1:161D:ECC7:50FF:DC74:4B8A:49AD (talk) 11:22, 22 November 2020 (UTC)