so what's your technique to making your comic title font 'different'.

I tend to do the usual 'overlay' with filter effects.

This one for "Ahoy Kids" is supposed to say "Pirates" but also "fun for the whole family" without, you know, making it sound like boring pirates. I must have gone through a million version before I got this - and they were mostly terrible.




For this one, the logo popped into my head all at once - what held me up was the catchphrase, which only came to me weeks later.

I generally do my logos in b&w, figuring I can add colors and FX as needed for specific uses. But i always start with b&w so that I know it will xerox OK and that I can make cheap T-shirts. I try to keep my logos and titles simple - there are so many out there that are hard to read!

I like to think these are different-looking logos, but they are obviously both based on the same fonts, the strongjaw/glassjaw font family made by Nate Piekos - who does the great comic Atland here on DD. I'm a huge fan of his fonts.

wow! you really thought out the designs.

what program do you use to adjust the fonts?

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I do everything in Illustrator, actually. It's easy to convert text directly into vector-outlines, and then you can pretty much do whatever you want with them.

I love making logos - the hard part is not making them all the same. Somehow, a lot of my logos come out pretty similar.

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I do everything in Illustrator, actually. It's easy to convert text directly into vector-outlines, and then you can pretty much do whatever you want with them.

I love making logos - the hard part is not making them all the same. Somehow, a lot of my logos come out pretty similar.

Yeah, Illustrator is the best for logo design.

BTW, in the pirate logo.. you need to align the composition. (actually i get this all the time since my wife is a graphic designer)

You can use a guide in the begining and end of the Ahoy Kids!, and then keep the "the Adventures of" limiting with those guides, then you can align the "Pirate Mom" between the H from "the" and the O of "of". The word is "justify" ^^ (i allways forget that).
Oh and the Kids! can be aligned with th H from ahoy.

By justifying the text the logo improoves visually.

Sometimes, I take a boring font, convert it into a path, ad some crazy anchor points and make it look cool. Most of the time, I just take a boring font and leave it at that. Simple text blending is fun, but it's usually not the best route to take for a title. Those work better when standing out.