Benoda Emphatic

**Benoda** is a series of modern comic book typefaces inspired by the great **Ben Oda**, whose exquisite hand-lettering appears in comic books, comic strips, and more, published from the 1940's to the 1980's! These typefaces were all inspired by Oda's work at **EC Comics** during the early 1950’s, specifically in **Two-Fisted Tales**, and I hope you'll enjoy creating with them as much as I enjoyed creating them!

Our first offerings from the **Benoda** family are **Benoda Text** [for standard comics dialogue], **Benoda Narrative** [for caption boxes and thought balloons], and **Benoda Emphatic** [for emphasizing key words.] These three faces encompass the comic book lettering trinity of *text*, *italic*, and *bold-italic*, necessary for standard dialogue. For those of you looking for the "total package," all three are available in the **Benoda Dialogue Bundle!**

There’s often a lack of fluidity in a “hand lettering” font; each letter looking the same regardless of how many times you type it and screaming “mechanical reproduction,” so **Benoda** is *packed* with **contextual alternates**. If you don’t already know, contextual alternates cycle through *multiple* glyphs in most graphics programs, breaking up the repetition and imbuing the text with an even feel. The differences in **Benoda** are minor, but add just enough "randomness" to make the text flow as if it came directly from the tip of a Speedball. And the *best* part is, you don’t really have to do much to make the magic happen, just make sure your program works with contextual alternates and make sure they’re turned on!

Within each **Benoda** typeface are three alternate glyphs of **A-Z**, **a-z**, **0-9**, and a few common punctuation marks. Additionally, there are a whole mess of international diacritics so you can create in almost *any* language using latin roman glyphs! And while **Benoda** is geared toward comics lettering, it works *wherever* you need a bit of hand-lettering!

So what is **Benoda Emphatic**? **Benoda Emphatic** is the typeface you call when you need to inject some emotional signposts in your text. Emphasizing key words helps with *context* and *understanding* and can lend *action* and *meter* to an otherwise dull block of text. "What do you think?" becomes "What do **you** think?" or "What do you **think?**"

So what's in the **Benoda Emphatic** package? You get the **Benoda Emphatic** typeface in both TTF and OTF font formats plus the **FREE** 32-page **Benoda** specimen book PDF! Not certain if **Benoda** is the right typeface family for you? Head on over to www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/1483421 and you can browse or download the **FREE** PDF spec book which has hints, tips, history, and full glyph maps of all the **Benoda** typefaces, plus release dates, and a few fun surprises thrown in. Once you've decided to love **Benoda**, you can even order a *ridiculously* overpriced hardcopy of the spec book, sure to become a collector's item someday!

Well, I guess that covers all the bases for now! We'll see you in a month for the release of our next two **Benoda** typefaces! Until then, have fun, be nice, and remember: At **Category4**, things *could* be worse!