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How should SFX be handled?
The original should be replaced with a translation SFX
A translation should be placed next to the original
A translation should be in the margins
SFX shouldn't be translated at all
 
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New Poll - Fonts (v2)

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12 years ago
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I'm not a typesetter and I've never heard of these fonts you guys are using, probably because they don't exist in Microsoft words(or I just missed them). But I do know Comic San MS look HORRIBLE in manga because I was encountered it in a manga. It was terrible.

I second the "None of the above", "None of the above" or at least a "Don't know the name".

Many people who read mangas, like me know nothing of the names of the font but I think if people looked more into it they would choose not to vote at all becaue I would rip my hair out if Comic san MS appeared everywhere.

And I wish no one voted at the "Font dont matter" because a good font makes it easy to read. For example, if a character speaks in another language or if there's a special line or situation, it really makes a different.


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12 years ago
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It depends on the bubble type, etc., but for normal bubbles I'd usually go with WildWords/AnimeAce2 or something similar.


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Where's wingdings?! It would have been the obvious answer. 😢

EDIT: Webdings! Wingdings... 🤣


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Those are the only ones I recognize. What the hell is frutiger? Or trajan? Some of these are mildly recognizable, but many are WTF?
I chose Times New Roman, because that's the worst choice, IMO. Should have added wingdings if you'd put any text but the main ones used in scanlation...

EDIT: Webdings? Webdings. 🤣 🙄


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-No longer do I quote great scholars, the famous, etc. Kids feigning wisdom ruined it.
--I wont type a post like a college report. If you don't read it just for that reason, you don't have to post why your hoity-toity ass refused to. I swear, so many people on this site are so full of themselves. A lot seem to think they always have an "intelligent and/or logical" point or show signs of a superiority complex. They never admit they're wrong. Maybe partially, but excuses abound! :\
-Stop mailing me about my comments. I don't read them.
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Well, looks like lamb took your and the other scanlators concern seriously. xD

Feeling better now? 😛


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Great!

I do have one futher suggestion, though; and that is to remove Arial, Arial Black, Comic Sans MS, Times New Roman and Webdings from the list. As they're all ill-suited to use for scanlations and are terrible choices for such endeavour. Dunno about the rest of initial list though, cuz I don't really recognize them.

Maybe replace them with Anime Ace 2 & Blambot Pro.


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I am familiar with the basic font used because that was what I usually use when I was still active in scanlating.


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DigitalStrip FTW. But srsly this poll. No one but people who actually scanlate can really give a name to the font they like the most. lol Blambot is 2nd place for me. And there are a few others that I really like that aren't listed but I can't remember their names because I don't scanlate anymore. XD


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Also, I'm too hipster to ever use wild words and anime ace. 🤣


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I picked "Running out of ideas."

Which is amazing, because there's an entire thread dedicated making poll ideas, all of which are better than this one.

[quote=sarah-eats-cupcakes]fonts don't matter[/quote] [b]Sayi[/b][i]ng[/i] [u]art doe[/u][b]sn't[/b] [i]matter doesn't trip[/i] [i]my berse[/i]r[u]k butt[/u][b]o[/b][i]n[/i]. [b]Art's subje[/b][i]ctive, and I'll [/i][b]as[/b][u]sum[/u][i]e you've at least given [/i][u]a bit of tho[/u][u]ught to sayi[/u][b]ng art speci[/b][i]fically doesn't matter in a me[/i][b][i][u]dium of story-telling wher[/u][/i][/b]e art is frag[b]rantly[/b] [i][u]present. In the end, I take it to mean "I can acce[/u][/i]pt wha[i][u]t other pe[/u][/i]ople t[b][u]hink is 'bad a[/u][/b]rt' if tha[b][u]t 'bad art' is the b[/u][/b]es[i]t way to deli[/i]ver t[b]hat particula[/b]r s[i][u]tory." For ins[/u][/i]tance, I[b][u] don't t[/u][/b]hink To-love-ru wou[u]ld've made it past ten [/u]ch[u][b]apters with t[/b][/u]he art of Usagi Drop, b[u]ut at t[/u]h[b]e same ti[/b]m[u][b]e, I don't[/b][/u] think Usagi Drop w[b][i][u]it[/u][/i][/b]h To-love-ru's[i] art would s[/i]u[u]rvive fo[/u][u][b]r ver[/b][/u]y l[u]ong, eit[/u]her. O[b]r maybe[/b][i][u] it wou[/u][/i]ld,[b][i] but it'd lose[/i][/b] an[b]y or all [/b]of[i][u] it's charm [/u][/i]an[u][i]d/or w[/i][/u]ou[i][b]ldn't do as[/b][/i] [b][u]well in it's[/u][/b] t[u][b]arget demogra[/b][/u]phic.

[quote=me, but since I haven't said it yet, it should prompt the Colonel to whine about me committing a time paradox, but I'll do it anyway cause I've no other way to enjoy the cheese.]I can drone on for pages trying to explain myself here, but like I said, I assume you know what you're saying.[/quote]

Say[b]I[/b]ng font doesn'[b]T[/b] [b]MATTER[/b] when freaking webding[b]S[/b] i[b][u]s an opt[/u][/b]ion[i] and whe[/i]n[b][u] couple[/u][/b]d with[b][u] "art does[/u][/b]n'[i][u]t matter", me[/u][/i][i]ans I ca[/i]n[u] deliver you [/u][i][b]a story [/b][/i]w[i]ith a series of[/i] [u]grunts and ph[/u]o[b]tographs of[/b][u] human e[/u]x[i]crement i[/i]n[u] var[/u]y[b]ing sta[/b]g[u]es of de[/u]c[b]ay, and s[/b]o[u] long a[/u]s[b] it wa[/b]s [i]a rive[/i]t[u][i]i[/i][/u][u]n[/u][b]g[/b] st[u][i]ory, you'd b[/i][/u]e per[i]fectly OK[/i] w[u][b]ith i[/b][/u]t.

[i][u]That said, sa[/u][/i]y[b]ing "fo[/b]n[i][b]t doesn't[/b][/i] [i]matte[/i]r[u]" doesn'[/u]t[u][i] t[b]ri[/b][/u][/i]p my berserk[i][b] button[/b][/i] [u][i]eithe[/i][/u]r,[b][i][u] because[/u][/i][/b] [b]I take it to m[/b]e[u][i]an "font [/i][/u]d[i][u]oesn't mat[/u][/i]t[b][u]er unle[/u][/b]s[b]s it's [/b]a[u]n obvious prob[/u]l[i]em", but [/i]o[u]ddly, I[/u] [b]still feel [/b]t[i]he n[/i]e[u][i]e[/i][/u][b]d to [/b]m[u]ake f[/u]un[u][i] of you[/i][/u] [b]becau[/b][u]se[/u] [i]I'm an [/i][u]assho[/u]le[b] who use[/b]s [u][i]gratuit[/i][/u]o[i][b]us f[/b][/i]a[i]llac[/i]i[u][i]es to m[/i][/u]a[b]ke fun [/b]of people.

[spoiler]And since I can't write this message in functional webdings, I'll do it in super annoying format changes and put this message as a foot-note.[/spoiler]


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As long as it isn't Anime Ace.


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LOL at "Comic Sans." LOL. Wtf. Lol.

Well, the last nine font choices are wtf, really.


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Quote from Badkarma

SayIng font doesn'T MATTER when freaking webdingS is an option

I appreciate your efforts at trying to convey your message through "super annoying format" but it was still easily readable and as long as the font is readable it really doesn't matter, so actually i wouldn't mind reading a manga with your super annoying format if i liked the plot

i obviously didn't suggest I enjoy reading webdings when I said font doesn't matter(and im pretty sure everyone else who voted for the last option didn't). ofcourse, common sense should naturally lead you to that conclusion but since you're, and I quote, "an asshole who uses gratuitous fallacies to make fun of people" it looks like I have to state the obvious

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means I can deliver you a story with a series of grunts and photographs of human excrement in varying stages of decay, and SO LONG AS IT WAS A RIVETING STORY, you'd be perfectly OK with it.

yes that's exactly what i meant. but alas! if I don't have a manga quality criteria similar to yours, then I must be a wretched fool! please eat my pancreas

i find your conviction that good art and selected fonts are mandatory to make you enjoy reading a manga silly, and you find the fact that the absence of good art and font don't hinder my enjoyment of a manga silly...so, what now? are you going to make another post with super annoying format to tell me why your subjective manga quality criteria is better than mine?


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