What was this font that everybody used for about fifty years?

Fixed the link.

Two important rules: avoid the word “FLICK” and do not name a character “CLINT”.

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iPhone? The MS in the name means Microsoft, you know.
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Yes, I knew that ya big silly! I’ve used MS Office since before the iPhone was a twinkle in Steve Job’s eye. It’s not the MS quirks that confuse me but Apple’s. I’m exactly the type of neophyte whom the “walled garden” concept is meant to coddle. :smiley:

Just today I was reading a comic where CLINT BARTON was FLICKING PENNIES at things.

Bullshit. Handwriting looks different from person to person in large amounts. My handwriting looks nothing like my sister’s which looks nothing like my mom’s which looks nothing like my dad’s. What’s happening here is that a lot of people with very little depth of knowledge are lording over that knowledge they do have, not realizing that it’s not relevant to the question.

This is not handwriting. This is lettering. And, as lettering, it follows a specific style that is much more strict than handwriting, albeit not as strict as fonts. The OP was asking for a specific name for this style, which she was going to use to look up the various fonts that would fit it.

Honestly, it looks like you guys are just looking for a reason to call the OP dumb rather than answer the question.

Lettering is a subset of handwriting. And depending on how you were taught handwriting, it might have been very similar to this situation. Under rigorous penmanship instruction — which was not all that unusual, especially in Catholic schools —entire classes of people would emerge with nearly identical handwriting, with the expected variations you might expect, just like in lettering for comic books. Scrivening was in certain places and times taught as an essential life skill, and there were many people who were employed in big businesses for the purpose of writing things down in a clear and regularlized script. Comic book lettering is really no different from all the many decades in which many kinds of professionals used handwriting in a formal setting.

And yet each comic book letterer’s work was unique enough that people had favorites. (“Favorite Letterer” was a category back when I used fill out fan ballots for the annual comic book awards.) But I would agree that, to the casual, non-comic-reader or someone who only looks at them occasionally, every letterer’s work probably looks identical. Serious fans who read lots of comics over a long period of time can, and do, see a difference.

Comic book fonts