Also doing the same copy paste, selecting font size in every page of a 25+ page manga chapter is quite boring. So, the job of the typesetter may seem easy but they have more duties: chosing font, centering the text, chosing font size.
The typesetters are free to chose the font they like for the text, they chose the font that'll look best for different types of text. There are many more fonts (hundreds more) used for different mangas. Mouth Breather BB: Bold/ Regular-suprised/ scared/ evil text Komika Axis: Regular/ Bold Italic-yell/ screamĬCJeffCampbell: Bold Italic-yell/ ScreamĬooper Black Std: Black/ Black Italic-manga title Lucida Handwriting: Regular- Manga tilte/ Cover page text Yellowjacket: Regular/ Expanded- Mad/ evil text Razing: Regular/ Bold Italic- Yell/ scream
ObelixPro: Regular/ Bold Italic- Yell /Scream /Excited /SFX /Cover Page text Zap Raygun V2.0: Regular/ Bold Italic- Yell/ scream Vahika Regular/ Italic/ Bold Italic- mechanical text Here are some of the fonts which is used in the majority of manga.ĬC Wild Words: Regular- normal text, italic- thoughts, bold italic-yell/ screamĬC Astro City: Regular- normal text,italic thoughts, bold italic- yell/ screamĬC Jim Lee: Italic/ bold italic- thoughtĬC Joe Kubert: Regular- normal text, italic thoughts, bold italic- yell/ screamĪkbar: regular- evil/ startled/ small text/ "in a pinch" type textĪnime Ace: Regular- normal text, italic- thoughts, bold italic-yell/ scream/ excited textĪnother: Regular- evil/ startled/ "in a pinch" type textīlambot Pro: Regular/ Italic/ Bold Italic- yell/ scream For each expression, each situation, each type of voice sometimes for a particular character and for each manga, the scanlators use a different font. Manga scanlators use a lot of, hundreds of different fonts. But in reality no scanlations, good scanlations never use Comic sans MS
Many think that Scnalations use Comic Sans MS as it is the font in their pc that resembles the font of a manga. As a reader of manga, i think many of you are interested about the fonts that are used in the English version of the mangas. Scanlators and authentic companies like Viz comics publish those mangas in English for the rest of the world to read and enjoy the manga. Manga is Japanese comic books which is published in Japan in Japanese language.