All comic artists should be obligated to do the lettering themselves. Anyone who has ever used the digital text tool or pre-made templates especially has failed artistically.

Lettering is an art in of itself and I cannot fucking do it. No.

>>149287822 (OP)
Dogger
*scratch scratch*

>text tool
I always assumed the text guy had dedicated software for this shit, or at least shared something with people formatting newspapers or magazines who need to fuck around with text alignment, kerning and such far more often than drawfags.
are they all just using Photoshop ?

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>>149287935
Adobe Illustrator tends to be the preferred professional way of putting down lettering because it's vector based and thus you don't have to worry about pixelation across size changes.
The fonts themselves can be made on the program too, many fonts were based off hand made letters on paper that were scanned in and drawn as vectors and assembled into a font.

>>149287822 (OP)
>guy who has never made or done a single thing in his life has arbitrary instructions for people to follow
You’d probably shit and cry if you didn’t like how the hand lettering looked, too.

>>149287822 (OP)
Comic artists should learn how to do the lettering in order to understand about placement and reading order. Even if they don't do the lettering themselves (digitally or otherwise) they should have an idea of how much space to leave and where, so the letterer doesn't end up having to cover up important parts of the panel with dialogue.

That said, I have seen examples where the artist left plenty of space, but the letterer still decided to cover up the characters anyway.

>All comic artists should be obligated to do the lettering themselves
Please spare me, I have seen some truly horrendous lettering before.