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Lettering a comic page in Krita: what the manual pages on panels and text properties state

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For comic artists lettering pages in Krita, this note summarises what the manual source says about cutting panel gutters, setting text before or after the art, flowing text into speech bubble shapes, and paragraph settings including vertical and right-to-left text. It is a reading of five manual files, with an untested checklist, and nothing was run in Krita.

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Lettering a comic page in Krita: what the manual pages on panels and text properties state

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For comic artists lettering pages in Krita, this note summarises what the manual source says about cutting panel gutters, setting text before or after the art, flowing text into speech bubble shapes, and paragraph settings including vertical and right-to-left text. It is a reading of five manual files, with an untested checklist, and nothing was run in Krita.

Example

The checklist applies to one invented comic page and is untested; no page was lettered and no result is claimed.

Useful starting points

  • The manual says Krita does not support mixed writing modes or text orientations in one text, so set vertical or right-to-left on the whole paragraph.
  • When merging panel gaps back together, only one gap can be removed at a time.
  • Create a style preset for dialogue before typing so new texts start consistent.
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