{"id":"manga-lettering","no":414,"name":"Manga Lettering","ja":"漫画の描き文字","era":"1930s–","family":"レタリング","kind":"スタイル","collection":"Dictionary expansion 22","addedAt":"2026-08-18","source":{"title":"京都国際マンガミュージアム","url":"https://kyotomm.jp/"},"reference":{"status":"verified","pageUrl":"https://kyotomm.jp/","credit":"京都国際マンガミュージアム","gallery":[{"imageUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Anonyme%20-%20Le%20Docteur%20endormi.jpg?width=640","pageUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anonyme%20-%20Le%20Docteur%20endormi.jpg","credit":"作者不詳 大正期の漫画 手描きの片仮名が画面に散る — Wikimedia Commons / Public domain"},{"imageUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tokyo-puck.jpg?width=640","pageUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tokyo-puck.jpg","credit":"北澤楽天《東京パック》表紙 1905 手描きの題字 — Wikimedia Commons / Public domain"},{"imageUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Cafe%20and%20Flapper%20(1927)%E2%80%99%20by%20Okamoto%20Ippei%2C%20Honolulu%20Museum%20of%20Art.jpg?width=640","pageUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cafe%20and%20Flapper%20(1927)%E2%80%99%20by%20Okamoto%20Ippei%2C%20Honolulu%20Museum%20of%20Art.jpg","credit":"岡本一平《カフエとモダン》1927 ホノルル美術館 — Wikimedia Commons / Public domain"}]},"essence":"「ドーン」「シーン」。効果音や気配を絵として描く日本漫画の文字。音の質感を線の太さと形で翻訳する描き文字は、コマの中で絵と文字の境界を溶かす発明で、翻訳不能の視覚言語になった。","cues":["音を形にする描き文字","太さと質感の対応","コマを貫く配置","静寂まで書く（シーン）"],"intents":["遊び","高揚","親密"],"works":["漫画やコマ割りの広告で、音や気配を絵の中に書き込むとき","字幕や吹き出しに頼らず、静止画に時間の流れを持たせたいとき"],"recipe":{"type":"音の硬さを線の太さと縁の形に写し、字ごとに大きさを変える","layout":"描き文字をコマ枠と人物に跨がらせ、読む順に沿って流す","material":"絵と同じ筆やペンで書き、白抜きと墨ベタを使い分ける"},"avoid":"既製の書体で擬音を置くと、音の硬さも速さも線に出ず、絵の上に浮いただけの注記になる。","colors":["#eee8de","#9c3d34","#131415"],"motif":"graphic","pair":["saul-bass-title","imode-emoji"],"study":["手塚治虫の擬音","「シーン」の発明","翻訳版での処理問題"],"en":{"essence":"In Japanese manga, sound effects and even the feel of silence are drawn as pictures, from a booming don to a hushed shiin. Hand-lettering turns the texture of a sound into line weight and shape, dissolving the border between image and word inside the panel.","cues":["Sound drawn as shape","Weight matched to texture","Placement crossing panels","Even silence written (shiin)"],"works":["Comics and paneled ads where sound must be written inside the picture","Still images given the flow of time without captions or balloons"],"recipe":{"type":"Line weight and edge shape carry the hardness of the sound","layout":"Lettering straddling panel borders and figures, following the reading path","material":"Written with the same pen as the art, reversed white against solid black"},"avoid":"Setting sound effects in a ready-made typeface keeps the hardness and speed out of the line, leaving a note floating above the drawing.","study":["Tezuka's sound effects","the invention of shiin","the translation problem"]},"links":{"page":"https://indexstyle.org/styles/manga-lettering","json":"https://indexstyle.org/api/styles/manga-lettering","designSpec":"https://indexstyle.org/styles/manga-lettering/design.md","imagePrompt":"https://indexstyle.org/styles/manga-lettering/prompt.txt"},"usage":{"license":"CC-BY-4.0","licenseName":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International","licenseUrl":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","attribution":"IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org","attributionUrl":"https://indexstyle.org","scope":"Original IndexStyle text and structured data. Reference images, quoted works, and third-party material are excluded and retain their own rights."}}