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Philly English @kernedout.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I wanna make tutorials that'll help letterers save time, but the irony is: I don't have the time.

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Philly English @kernedout.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Nightmare on Elm Street when Tina is in the body bag. Scared the living crap outta me.

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Chase | Commissions... Open!! @chaseburns.art · 26/09/2026

My fourth font for the @cartoonist.coop Letterer Challenge 2026! This prompt was "Horror", as if that wasn't obvious! It has lots of alternate characters! You can download it here: chaseburns.itch.io/scrawling-da... #font #openfontlicense #lettererchallenge2026

an image displaying "Scrawling Darkly", a gritty comic book font.

there's a speech balloon that reads "Wanna hear how long I can scream? Aaaaaiiiiiiiieeeeeeee!!! Hold on, let me try that again..."

Made for the Cartoonists United Letterer Challenge 2026

another image displaying "Scrawling Darkly", a gritty comic book font.

Uses opentype ligatures to switch up side-by-side duplicate characters. Vowels have 4 alternates! Alts can also be picked manually, for variety.

Displaying this feature is a speech balloon that reads "Thiiisss iiisss hooow slowwlllyy I caaaaan taaallkk" and 4 "urgh!"s with different alternate letters.

Good for sound effects (Maybe even better than for dialogue…). Demonstrating this are stylized sound effects that reads "Splat", "Aaaiiieeee!!!", and "drip drip".

another image displaying "Scrawling Darkly", a gritty comic book font. this one displays all of the characters included in the font, with many alternates.

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Philly English @kernedout.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Celebrate life and tell people that you love them.

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Philly English @kernedout.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Whoever came up with this is a genius. bsky.app/profile/just...

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Ben Sidi @bensidi.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Welcome to The Amazing Digital Circus! I'm your Letterer for this series, and I hope you'll enjoy it! Translation by Nova Skipper. Edited by Andrew Bartosh. I'll put some of my SFX in this post! [1/3]

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Philly English @kernedout.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

“The first revolution is when you change your mind about how you look at things, and see there might be another way to look at it that you have not been shown.” ― Gil Scott-Heron

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Philly English @kernedout.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I get it. I'm nobody to give advice, I just hate to see you go through it.

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Philly English @kernedout.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Please don't let shit like this stress you out. It's not worth it.

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Chase | Commissions... Open!! @chaseburns.art · 05/09/2026

My first font for the @cartoonist.coop Letterer Challenge 2026! The prompt was "romance", even though the font doesn't traditionally look it... You can download it here: chaseburns.itch.io/tell-em-shak... #font #openfontlicense #lettererchallenge2026

an image displaying "Tell Em Shakes", a wiggly typeface.

a caption reads "comic book lettering seen through ghibli tears??"

a comic speech balloon reads "uhh... I have something important to tell you--I... err... I love you!"

Made for the Cartoonists United Letterer Challenge 2026!

another image displaying "Tell Em Shakes", a wiggly comic font.

a speech balloon reads "ursula! oh, ursula!! how I’ve missed you!" some of the letters are highlighted in blue.

Opentype ligatures make side-by-side doubled characters different. Alternates can also be picked by hand.

another balloon reads "don’t you (sob) love me anymore~~?"

breath marks and a shaky line that’s more wiggly than the em-dash (—) can be typed with {{ }} and ~~ respectively.

the font is pretty versatile!

there is an evil-looking balloon, with white text on black background, reading "come on and follow me into the darkness...", and a balloon that resembles a fishbowl full of water, reading "what? can’t you breathe underwater?"

another image displaying "Tell Em Shakes", a wiggly comic font. this one lists the four styles: regular, italic, bold, and bold italic. it also displays all of the glyphs included in the font

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Philly English @kernedout.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

A YouTube channel of your work would be so good! I hope you can do it one day.

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Philly English @kernedout.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Thanks, Evan! Still trying to get to grips with the editing, but hopefully I'll improve lol. You should do some videos of your process. They'd be awesome! 🔥

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Philly English @kernedout.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

KAGURABACHI Iai White Purity Style making its debut in volume 8 (chapter 70 iirc).

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rafael zaiats @cornpunk.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

first 6 volumes of the sequel Baki series are available for pre-order and it shows some of SFXs I made in the preview 🫣 once they're out i gotta do a little thread about lettering it or something

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Philly English @kernedout.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Haha, a very cool cat with glasses 😎

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Philly English @kernedout.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Some images from LYNX volume 1 released earlier this month by @viz.com Lettered in a more traditional way, this time I drew speech balloons and the text (not something usually done in manga lettering). SFX were handled by tokitokoro and they look amazing as well as everything else 🥹

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Cassiel SparklePony ✨ Covid is Airborne 😷 @sparkleponycass.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Hey my wonderful friends! If any of you know translator Andria McKnight, you know how amazing and sweet and wonderful she is. Well, now she needs our help. If you can donate, please do. If you can't, please consider sharing. She's going through so much right now. 😭 www.gofundme.com/f/help-andri...

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Donate to Help Andria and Nik Recover from House Fire, organized by Alyssa Weldon

Andria McKnight, a veteran translator, is facing a heartbreaking loss afte… Alyssa Weldon needs your support for Help Andria and Nik Recover from House Fire

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Maggie @magpon.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Bringing back Mushishi in a hardcover edition that it deserves has been such an honor. Mushishi's storytelling and art is timeless. Accessibility to classic manga is so important. (Side note: Oh man, this is now "classic." Please don't tell me I'm old.) Huge shoutout to my amazing dream team! 🫶

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Philly English @kernedout.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

So that's how you do it! What part of the lettering game is this, again? jk

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Brandon Bovia @brandonbovia.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

So, How Does The Green Work, Anyway??? Working on the lettering (English text) for The Guy She Was Interested Wasn’t A Guy At All has been an interesting experience. I primarily work in black and white manga, or on rare occasions, full color.

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Philly English @kernedout.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Been messing around with video editing for the past few days, so here’s a silly something I made for the release of Kaiju No. 8 Relax volume 3. Not much lettering in the video, but we'll get there eventually lol.

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Philly English @kernedout.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Thank you, Maggie. The pleasure has been all mine and I’m really glad you get the flowers you deserve ❤️ I’ll be on the lookout for the video 😉 (I’m sure you did fine, hehe).

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Philly English @kernedout.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Aw! Wish I could have been there. Thank you, Ed! 🙏

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Philly English @kernedout.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Congratulations to everyone who works on MUSHISHI. There are so many people behind the scenes that make these book what they are and every one of them should be proud right now. Fantastic job!

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Philly English @kernedout.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Some lettering from D.Gray-man 29. I don’t normally work on the series, so it was a nice surprise being asked to pinch-hit for this one ☺️

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Fantagraphics @fantagraphics.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

SCAM ALERT: Do not order from www.fantagraphics-us.com, it is not a legitimate website! They have cloned our real website and are stealing people’s credit card information. If you want to order directly from us, please do so at www.fantagraphics.com.

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sara linsley @sara.pizza · 14/08/2026

Three-panel comic with the titles "TEEN COMIX" and "BEANSON '15". The first panel shows a smug-looking person wearing sunglasses and a white shirt with the text "NO FEAR".
The second panel has been edited to show the text "accidentally leaving a 'v' in a balloon".
The third panel shows the same person, now looking less smug, and their shirt now says "ONE FEAR"

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Philly English @kernedout.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I once read that punctuation does not belong to the word, it belongs to the sentence so you should never bold/ital punctuation unless it's part of a title. BUT, it looks way better when you do 😅

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Philly English @kernedout.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

1 second to make. 1 hour to re-make.

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Philly English @kernedout.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Note from editor: “add hyphen” 😂 So sick, though! You’re absolutely killing it!!

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sara linsley @sara.pizza · 05/08/2026

reminder I'm running another manga freelancer meetup for ANYC, and you can sign up to get information here 👇

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Philly English @kernedout.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

"Eventually" does feel like forever, but it'll work in the end. It usually does. Lunch is on me ;)

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Philly English @kernedout.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Don't let shit like this discourage you. If a two-time college dropout like me can get PR, you certainly can.

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Cartoonists United @cartoonist.coop · 29/07/2026

Thank you to everyone who joined us for our font making workshop! The recording is now up on our YouTube channel for all to watch 🖤 youtu.be/wvdv1bmhYtU

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Designing Your Own Font w/ Sara Linsley

YouTube video by Cartoonists United

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