I love typography to death. Then I love dissecting it’s entrails. Of particular enjoyment to me is learning all the jargon associated with typography. Lucky for me there’s a lot of it. But I’ve noticed something.

I’ve looked at the websites. I’ve read the books. And through them all, they’ve been lacking one critical connection. Putting faces to the names, as it were. Or names to faces. It seems that most sites that talk about typography are very good at talking about it, but aren’t so great on giving picture examples. Other, less typographically-focussed design websites will post up a random smattering of letters and maybe describe a few of the terms. Maybe. Throw into that confusion that different sites will give the same term different meanings or the same features different names and soon nobody knows what to call anything.

I have problems with that. It has kept me up some nights.

I’m a major comics reader. And I choose what comics to read based on what superheroes I like. I know that others tend to gravitate towards certain writers or certain artists, but I’ve been wondering if logotypes can also make a difference in a book’s perception. So what I’m looking at here is four series of comics I’ve been reading off and on for last few years and giving you my perception of the title designs.