Hey!

[telophase]

Remind me to drink wine tonight. I popped open a bottle the other day to use half a cup to cook with and I'll be damned if I let another $10 bottle of wine go bad because I forgot it was in the fridge.

And it seems I have a serious lack of drinking icons; I must remedy that at some point.

Comments

[rilina.livejournal.com]

I freeze leftover wine from cooking. (Line measuring cup with freezer bag, pour in wine, seal, reclaim measuring cup after wine is frozen.) That way I have it to use later and don't have to pop open another bottle.

[ninja-tech.livejournal.com]

Whoa. That's genius!

[octopedingenue]

Why do I have two drinking icons--

[octopedingenue]

--when I drink maybe one Smirnoff Ice or shot of Baileys every two weeks?

[chuyita.livejournal.com]

I had no idea wine could go bad so easily...

Oh! Sorry to bother you, but I've been meaning to ask you this since you're obviously very well informed and observant when it comes to manga. What size font and what kind of font is most commonly used in manga?

Damn... I don't have a drinking icon either...

[telophase.livejournal.com]

If you open the bottle and let it sit in the fridge for a week or so, the taste goes bad. :)

The size of the font and the kind of font are pretty flexible - a sans-serif all-caps font is what's used. And never Comic Sans - it's awful. :D If you go to www.blambot.com, their free fonts are all pretty good. You might want to stay away from Anime Ace, since it's been overused a lot. I'm currently using AstroCity from COmicraft, which is a pay font, but every year on New Year's Day they put their fonts on sale at $20 a pop, so bookmark http://www.comicbookfonts.com/ (and sign up for their newsletter, which will remind you) and check it out in 9 months. :)

The size varies. If you're doing it for print, you can go smaller since professional printers print at 300-600 dots per inch. If you're doing it for the web, you want bigger because it's displaying at 72pixel per inch. The fint size can vary to show emphasis (or to fit in the balloon) as well. WHat is more important, really, than font size is the space between the lines and the space between the letters - if you read the RSOM finalists on the Tpop website, most of them don't have enough space between them to be easily readable online. It helps to get someone who's not familiar with the story to read it for you - if *you* know what they're saying, it's easy to see the words.

[chuyita.livejournal.com]

Now that I think about it, I'm only fourteen and have only tried wine a few times, so I obviously wouldn't know such wine facts... Anyways...

Thank you so much for the link and information (and for taking up some time of your day just to reply back with such a lengthy response). And I really had no idea about the spacing between lines, though I am familiar with the whitespace in the balloons--giving "space". Thank you. :)

[thomasyan.livejournal.com]

Drink!

And if you can't finish, maybe reduce the rest and make a sauce of it?