41) the all important swear word placeholders. Suppose they serve some other purposes too. #comicraft #fontmaking

40) punctuation time: Period from exclam. Dash from E. X becomes < and > , etc. #comicraft #fontmaking

39) got A-Z and a-z looking pretty sweet. But that's only part of it... #comicraft #fontmaking

38) and in Opentype, we can substitute pairs automatically, for extra niftiness! woo! #comicraft #fontcreation

37) ... this is it: two versions of every letter, in the upper and lowercase positions. #comicraft #fontmaking

36) if you ever shopped for Comicraft fonts and wondered what we mean by "alternate characters"... #fontmaking

35) spacing done! now to make sure similarly shaped letters are similar enough. but not too #comicraft #fontmaking

34) breaking my round LL/UR, sharp UL/LR corners rule. inside hooks look better sharp, no? #comicraft #fontmaking

33) ah, the painstaking letter spacing process. don't try this at home. #comicraft #fontmaking

32) lest i forget... #comicraft #fontcreation

31) KABOOM! Notice a thick/thin thing happening with O and M but not B -- which way to go? #comicraft #fontmaking

30) heading into the Sound Effect Testing Room... put in your earplugs! #comicraft #fontcreation

29) pasted the alternate set into fontographer. save the great BB and HH for ligatures! #comicraft #fontcreation

28) first alphabet above, second one below. crazy inconsistencies. but that's the charm...? #comicraft #fontmaking

27) ha! love 'em when they're filled and the scan is gone. like Artie Simek alphabet soup. #comicraft #fontmaking