You succeed!Matt Trepal wrote:You're welcome! I try to be helpful.Kellogg wrote: Thanks Matt!
No. However, the letters are a bit blurry around the edges.Does this mean you have trouble reading FCE?
Take a *close* look at the letter E. The top fork of the letter is a bit
blurry.
Now, I can read it just fine, but putting the two side by side, as I did
when working on this week's strips, I could see that it was more easily legible. I think it's the fact that the Blambot letters, while they're the same size, are fatter than Comic MS. Thus, the white space between,
say, the forks of the letter E is shrunk.
While I can read it at it's current resolution, I'd bet that if you saved it at a poorer resolution, Blambot would become illegible at a higher res than Comic MS.
I'm *not* saying you should switch. It's just fine as it is, honest.
But, one thing I *would* recommend, is don't be afraid to try some
of the things I am, that is, switching fonts, size and italics in mid
sentence.
As I mentioned before, the straight font is... kind of a flat tone.
FCE has a fairly high emotional content lately, so there's a lot of
feeling in what characters are saying. You could push that farther
by making the characters "read their lines" better.
Hm. I hadn't actually noticed this until you pointed it out. Probably because you've used the colored speech balloons before (to excellent effect, I might add), so I really didn't notice. Which, I suppose, is a good thing, since it means that it's not intruding upon the reader and his or her experience. Or, it just means that I don't pay enough attention to stuff like that.Actually, today's strip used 3 digitally rendered balloons.
[/quote]Well, with *luck*, it slipped under your radar screen subliminally, so that
you knew the tone of the words you read without realizing how you were getting that tone. Ideally, that's how speech balloons should work: Convey the dialog without you realizing "Hey, what a pretty balloon!" instead of, "Hey, lookit the giraffe legs!"
Scott
