{"id":4369,"date":"2016-09-06T11:15:21","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T18:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=4369"},"modified":"2016-09-06T11:15:21","modified_gmt":"2016-09-06T18:15:21","slug":"illustration-where-the-comic-book-font-came-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/06\/illustration-where-the-comic-book-font-came-from\/","title":{"rendered":"Illustration: Where the &#8220;comic book font&#8221; came from"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No no, not Comic Sans\u2014I mean the classic lettering style of comic books:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>So&#8230;why does all the writing in comic books look like that? Vox&#8217;s Phil Edwards looked into it and found an aesthetic shaped by comics culture, technology, and really cheap paper.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Check it out:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e31fNccOQSE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> \u2028<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NewImage.png\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/INewImage-2.png\" alt=\"NewImage\" width=\"599\" height=\"282\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=e31fNccOQSE\">YouTube<\/a>] [Via Adam Symons]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No no, not Comic Sans\u2014I mean the classic lettering style of comic books: So&#8230;why does all the writing in comic books look like that? Vox&#8217;s Phil Edwards looked into it and found an aesthetic shaped by comics culture, technology, and really cheap paper. Check it out: \u2028 [YouTube] [Via Adam Symons]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4369"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4370,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4369\/revisions\/4370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}