Editing Letterer (section)

=== Computer lettering ===
Most Marvel and DC books are now lettered using a graphics program such as [[Adobe Illustrator]], [[Adobe Photoshop]] or [[Adobe InDesign]], and a [[font]] that resembles hand lettering. Computer lettering provides a lot of technical shortcuts, especially by combining the lettering work directly with digital art files, eliminating the tedious physical paste-up stage altogether. Some letterers handwrite part of the script. Hand-lettering is often used for sound effects and [[onomatopoeia]] in comics.

There are also still comics artists and inkers who prefer to have the lettering directly on their pages. First, it saves drawing time (not having to put art where a big caption will be); and second, comics tell a story, and a page of comics art without the lettering is only half the story.

Long-time letterer [[John Workman]] toes a middle ground between traditional and digital lettering. In addition to his "on-the-art boards work", Workman has been electronically hand-lettering by way of a [[Wacom (company)|Wacom]] tablet.