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Manga Font Directory This site displays examples of fonts used in manga lettering for North American English localization. This site was created for educational, non-commercial purposes and does not constitute endorsement...

there are so many fonts used in manga localization.... please.... anything but wild words, anime ace, and whizbang..... mangafonts.carrd.co

Sometimes, letterering for manga means working in tandem with the Japanese SFX instead of rewriting them!

In CLAMP Premium Collection Tokyo Babylon, Vol. 7, letterer @kernedout.bsky.social skillfully blends the English "ZWOOSH" text with it's Japanese counterpart for a seamless reading experience!

today's my birthday and it would mean a lot if you could share my portfolio🎈🎂 i hope i can letter more manga in the next year!

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Our next piece of lettering comes from @meerkatotter.bsky.social!

Not only does Madeleine flawlessly recreate the translated English text into 3D blocks, but they also have the text interacting with Mifuyu as well!

#LettererAppreciationMonth #LettererAppreciationDay

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Shocked and saddened to hear that Matt Haasch, founder of indie manga publishing company @starfruitbooks.bsky.social has passed away. His gofundme campaign for his medical and other expenses is still up - contribute if you can. www.gofundme.com/f/donate-to-...

Happy Letterer Appreciation Day! Letterers are the unsung heroes of manga localization. Readers, I encourage you to jump to the copyright page and take a look at who the letterer is before you read that next volume. Then you can appreciate their work even more!

Happy #LettererAppreciationDay to all my fellow letterers! Thank you for your excellent work, your kindness and all the help you have given me along the way 💖
I wish you better working conditions in the future and kind words from time to time so that we can enjoy this wonderful job to the fullest 🫶

happy letterer appreciation day! if you’d like to follow more manga letterers here, I have a list for you: go.bsky.app/8XNn7Eu

Manga speech balloon with the text "Help Meeee!!!" written in ink.

Going back to analogue.

they’re here!! i am in love

I am unbelievably excited to say that @lettererbrendo.bsky.social and I are lettering the English release of Billy Bat! Both of us!

Lettered by me and @cranchyroll.com!!!

✨COVER DEBUT✨

With the world—and her heart—on the line, Hayan's mission to protect her loved ones reaches a breaking point. When Euntae collapses, her self-control shatters...

The FINAL volume! Unholy Blood, Vol. 8 releases in print November 2025: buff.ly/XuzCTkJ

A page from GAEA-TIMA the Gigantis Vol 1

A page from GAEA-TIMA the Gigantis Vol 1

A page from GAEA-TIMA the Gigantis Vol 1

A page from GAEA-TIMA the Gigantis Vol 2

Here are some of my favorite pages from Vols 1-2!

Cover of GAEA-TIMA the Gigantis Vol 2

Netgalley review of GAEA-TIMA the Gigantis Vol 1

Vol 2 of GAEA-TIMA the Gigantis, a manga I'm lettering, is out! KENT-sensei's art is amazing, big thanks to my editor @tnagano411.bsky.social for letting me be part of it!
Most SFX here are fonts in InDesign, but I tried matching the original as best I can.
And saw a review mention me! So grateful 🥹

For all the fellow letterers out there: I made a free brush pack for Photoshop to share the brushes I use the most on a daily basis. You can grab them for free on Gumroad 7570336586512.gumroad.com/l/jclpmw

The letterer is Rebecca Sze.

Compilation of handwritten SFX for R18 doujin

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Hi everyone! I'm Elena, I'm from Spain and I work as a manga letterer for multiple publishers. I've been in the industry for 6 years now and still going strong. Here's a list of my projects of the last 4 years so you get to know me better (maybe there's one of your favorites in here!):

The Screentoney Award for "Lettering Pillar of Ize Press", "CSP Magician", and "Unholy Retouches and S-Class SFXs" goes to @sshiriry.bsky.social

Beyblade X volume 2 is out! Check out my thread on volume 1 if you want a more detailed breakdown of the basics on what it takes to letter one of these. This'll mostly be comparisons to the original pages, I think.

it's the MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF YEAR 🎄✨

the screentoney awards are officially accepting nominations for 2025!

nominate your favorite manga localization pros and find the rules over here: forms.gle/jQzo2QeiiNy1...

Nate does a great job here showing that kerning is positioning relative to the prior letter. These letters move closer together, but the cursor still appears at the right boundary of the left letter. If you make the bounding box too wide and rely only on kerning, your cursor gets inaccurate.

Screenshot from "Yet Another Killing Game", releasing January 31, 2025! Oriana: ...Pft. Like a snake. How fitting...

Happy Lunar New Year 🥳 Funny story; there actually is a "snake" in Yet Another Killing Game 🐍 Look at how happy Oriana looks! 😄 #yetanotherkillinggame #yearofthesnake #lunarnewyear

ooh thats next level!! I end up having to change the layer blend mode to "Dissolve" so that I can use the tilde(~) shortcut to keep that pixellated brush texture. Usually, I only have my brush set to dissolve but I couldn't figure out how to erase with dissolve that way 💀💀

this final way I'd love to use it whenever i can 😂 because it also works if your initial 1px "box" is a dotted line causing you to create a bunch of speedlines at once when you manipulate it

these two shift+click methods dont need much setting up, so i do this a lot for smaller areas with tapered lines. not very advised for massive zoom panels though...

compiled some ways I create tapered points for retouching manga speed lines! most of these don't require a tablet at all. It's honestly a coin toss which method I end up using... 🙈

insane how innocent he looks here... 🥹 may be my fav cover...

Cannot stress this enough.