Letterer

As Lettering (of English letter. Letter) the labeling of speech bubbles in comics is called. The Lettering shaping the person called Letterer, their activity is referred to lettern with the verb that is used in the book trade as a technical term for the reprinting of letters on a then mostly leather book cover.

The Letterer records both the text as well as additional sound effects ( onomatopoeia ) in the comic and can sometimes even design the logo of a comics. For his area of ​​responsibility, the Letterer should know about calligraphy. He needs a font, size and style can customize each comic.

An advanced task have Letterer that (about Manga) have to convert first language neutral one already published foreign comic to him then, for example, for the German edition recycle. This may lead to costly retouching work and interventions in the original graphics to swap also applied bildeinnehmend Sound Words ( eg engl. " BANG! " Against German " BANG !"). It is a case readjust the effects originally shown ( gradients, hidden picture elements, shadows, distortions, etc. ) as faithfully as possible.

While sophisticated comics are still being lettered by hand, use large comic publishers from time and cost reasons mostly digitized comic fonts and desktop publishing programs to fill the balloon with text.

Letterer is in Germany no teaching, but a specialized activity that is performed in a manual version of graphic artists and calligraphers in the DTP of media designers.

Both the comic price Eisner Award and the Harvey Award have a price category for Best Letterer.

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