Interesting Video Uncovers The History of "Comic Book Font"

Here's something I've never thought about before: where did the classic comic book font come from? And since comics used to be hand-drawn by a myriad number of different people, how did a single font become widely recognized and accepted as the defining way to look at the text of an entire medium? Vox dives into those questions in a fascinating new video essay that I hope you'll find just as interesting as I did:

So...why does all the writing in comic books look like that? Vox's Phil Edwards looked into it and found an aesthetic shaped by comics culture, technology, and really cheap paper. Want to learn more about comics lettering? You can't beat the writing of legendary letterer Todd Klein: http://kleinletters.com/ Special thanks to Collector's World in Annandale, Va, as well as Comicraft and Boom!

Via: LaughingSquid