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Site that identifies DC letterers? [message #261106] Wed, 16 July 2014 17:59 Go to next message
Quadibloc is currently offline  Quadibloc
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I remember a few years ago seeing a web site that listed over a dozen people who did lettering for DC over the years, like Ben Oda and Milt Snappin, giving samples of their work to help people identify the lettering in Silver Age DC comics.

I was trying to search for that site on Google, as part of an attempt to identify a "font sample" (it ultimately turned out the font sample was lettering from All-New Ghost Rider issue 4, and that might have been hand-lettered, or made using an internal font belonging to Virtual Calligraphy) presented on a forum.

While I did a lot of Googling on various items, as well as using the What The Font feature MyFonts a couple of times, and browsing the Blambot and Comicraft catalogues... and ultimately, by using the text of the font sample to identify its source, I uncovered the secret... that particular web page doesn't seem to turn up high enough on the keywords I can think of using to be found.

(I bookmarked it, but I'm using a different computer now.)

Does anyone recall the site I'm thinking of?

John Savard
Re: Site that identifies DC letterers? [message #261467 is a reply to message #261106] Fri, 18 July 2014 14:56 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Originally posted by: Rob Allen

On Wednesday, July 16, 2014 2:59:11 PM UTC-7, Quadibloc wrote:
> I remember a few years ago seeing a web site that listed over a dozen people who did lettering for DC over the years, like Ben Oda and Milt Snappin, giving samples of their work to help people identify the lettering in Silver Age DC comics.
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> Does anyone recall the site I'm thinking of?

I think you're looking for http://dccomicsartists.com/letters/letters.htm

Rob
Re: Site that identifies DC letterers? [message #261634 is a reply to message #261467] Sat, 19 July 2014 10:12 Go to previous message
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On Friday, July 18, 2014 12:56:54 PM UTC-6, Rob Allen wrote:

> I think you're looking for http://dccomicsartists.com/letters/letters.htm

Yes, that was it! Thank you very much.

John Savard
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