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What is Speechmeme?

Speechmeme is a tool that allows you to easily turn images into trendy and popular speech bubble memes, often seen in chat messages on social platforms like discord.

What type of images do you support?

You can currently use any image format such as JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP, SVG, WEBP, TIFF, AI, PSD, EPS, PDF, SVG, and more.

Why did you make this?

I made this tool because I often found content on Discord and other social media platforms that needed to be turned into a speech bubble meme. However, when I tried to find a reliable speech bubble meme generator on Google, I couldn't find any suitable websites. Let's be honest, nobody wants to search for a template and then go through the trouble of editing it to fit their needs. That's why I created this tool.

Why is the output image always of type '.gif'?

Discord only permits you to star/favorite gifs. Since many people enjoy favoriting speech bubble memes, I concluded it was the optimal choice to make.

Can I delete my images?

Images uploaded to our public gallery can be easily deleted by clicking on the little trash can icon in the top right corner of your post.

Is this free?

This speech bubble meme maker will forever stay free. I hope you enjoy using it!

Give your image a voice with a speech bubble

Draw your audience’s eyes to your message by wrapping it in a speech bubble. We have hundreds to choose from and you can even design your own.

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Speech bubble, thought bubble, text bubble —whatever you call ‘em—add ‘em with Snappa

Choose from hundreds of speech bubbles

Click Graphics → Icons or Vectors → then search “speech bubble” or “thought bubble” to reveal hundreds of choices.

You’ll find speech bubbles that are round and rectangular, some that are shaped like clouds and other oddly shaped text bubbles, and some that are filled in with a color and others that aren’t. Whatever look you’re after, there’s a speech bubble to match.

Add your own finishing touches

Once you find the right shape for your speech bubble, it’s time to make it your own.

Change the size of your text bubble and its fill color by choosing from our palette of popular colors or by playing with the color picker, and increase or decrease opacity until it's exactly what you envisioned.

Flip and rotate speech bubbles

Isn’t it annoying when you have the perfect image and the perfect speech bubble, but the mouth of the image’s subject and the speech bubble don’t line up?

With Snappa, you can flip any speech bubble in one click then rotate it until it lines up.

Add text to speech bubbles

A speech bubble without text is... a bubble?

Add text to your bubble in one click, choose from 200+ fonts or upload your own, and play with font styles, color, shadows, blur, letter spacing and line height until you achieve the look you’re after.

Design your own speech bubbles

If hundreds of speech bubbles and countless ways to customize them still leaves you wanting more — it’s time to get creative.

There is nothing stopping you from uploading speech bubbles to Snappa, or using shapes and vector images to create a speech bubble unlike anything anyone has ever seen before. It’s all drag ’n’ drop and point ’n’ click.

Bring attention to offers

Just try to ignore the text inside of a speech bubble. You can’t. So what better place to hint at an offer or sale?

Show what someone’s thinking

Drop a thought bubble on to your image and add text that says what you want your customers to think about.

Create a comic strip

Drag ’n’ drop images of two or more people on to your background, add speech bubbles and text, and you’ve captured a full-blown convo.

Snappa is the best tool I've used to create images for blog posts & Facebook ads. In 5 minutes I can do what used to take me hours to do or pay designers to do.

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Co-founder of webprofits, speech bubble faq, do you have quotation marks i can use in place of a speech bubble.

We have hundreds of quotation marks you can use to bring attention to your text. There are filled in quotes and hollow quotes, rounded quotes and angular quotes, double and single quotes. You can change the color, size, opacity, and orientation of any quote, too.

Can I use Snappa for free?

On the forever free plan, you can add speech bubbles, use the complete photo editor, and download three images per month. The Pro ($10/month) or Team ($20/month) plans include UNLIMITED image downloads and social sharing.

Do you have stock photos, graphics, and templates that I can use?

Do we ever! You get access to 5,000,000+ high-res free use photos and graphics and 6,000+ professionally designed customizable templates. Of course, you can add and edit anything in our library to make it fit your vision.

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How To Add Speech Bubbles To Your Photos

By Whitney | Basic Photo Editing • Photo Editor Tutorials

There are some photos that are just asking for a speech bubble. The expression on someone’s face usually sets it off. You take one look and instantly think of the perfect caption, then proceed to laugh out loud at the perfectness of it all. They say pictures are worth a thousand words but some can be summed up in just a few hilariously fitting ones.

For all the photos you come across that would be made even better with a speech bubble, we’ve got a little something that will help you get the look in just a few clicks. Whatever the caption, you can add BeFunky’s Speech Bubble overlays to your photos and type away! They’re sure to help you share the fun with all of your friends, all in a matter of minutes.

Speech Bubbles Help Tell A Story  

Whether you want to turn your photo into a professional-looking comic or just want to have a little fun, any time is a good time to add a speech bubble. You can make an image hilarious by adding the right caption, or simply say exactly what you were thinking when you took that last selfie. There are many different kinds of speech bubbles that are available in BeFunky to help you tell your story. Here's a little sample of them and when to use each kind: 

Similar to making memes, speech bubbles can help you get the point across in a unique way. Here are some of the best cases where speech bubbles can make your photos more amusing:

Awkward Family Photos. Family photos can be a great opportunity to add a thought or speech bubble, the more awkward the better!  

Pet Photography. Since animals can say so much with their facial expressions and nonverbal cues, you can give them a voice with a speech bubble.

Photos With Your Best Friend. Because you know each other well enough that you have a million inside jokes.

For Stating Facts And Quotes. For a school project or a website, a speech bubble can be an easy and intriguing way to make a point.

How To Add A Speech Bubble In BeFunky

If you’re dying to add a speech bubble or two to your photos, BeFunky makes it incredibly easy. First, head to the Photo Editor and upload a photo.

Under the Graphics tab, click Search Graphics and then search for Speech Bubbles. Multiple options will come up, some with pre-filled text and others that are blank for you to type your own messages.

From here, you can click and drag the speech bubble wherever it fits best on your photo, and use the blue circles around it to resize and rotate.  If you hold down the Shift key while dragging the blue circles, you’ll be able to resize your speech bubble in freeform!

Notice that when you click on your speech bubble, a Graphic Properties toolbar appears. In this menu, you can flip the orientation of the speech bubble so it’s facing the correct direction, if need be. The Graphic Properties toolbar also presents you with tons of options to change the color, opacity, blend mode, and more!

When you’ve got your speech bubble exactly where you want it, it’s time for the fun part: adding some text. Click on the Text tab in the left menu and select Add Text . Select the text box that appears and start typing!

From the Text Properties toolbar that appears when your text box is selected, you can change the font, font color, paragraph orientation, and more. It’s best to start by resizing your text box to fit inside the speech bubble. That way, you’ll know exactly what the end result will look like.

Once you've got your text looking perfect, you're ready to save and share your photo! Using the Save button at the top of the Photo Editor, you'll be able to save your photo to your computer, Dropbox, and more.

If you're ready to share it on social media right away, select the Share button at the top of the Photo Editor and automatically post it to your Facebook, Pinterest, Tumblr, or Twitter!

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If you’re going for more of a comic book feel, we’ve got some really cool effects that will take your photo to the next level! Clicking on the Artsy tab will open a huge library of photo to art effects that will transform your photo into something that looks like it came from the pages of a graphic novel. One of the best effects for this is BeFunky’s Cartoonizer .

When you click on the Cartoonizer category, you’ll find several effects that will take you from photo to cartoon in a single click. Preview each effect on your photo until you find one you love.

Notice that each Cartoonizer effect has it’s own Settings Menu where you can control the strength of the effect, colors, and detail level. Once you're satisfied, click Save.

The best part about these Photo To Art effects is that they’re completely exclusive to BeFunky - you can’t find them anywhere else. That means you’ve got yourself a photo that’s truly unique. And just look at that detail! 

Ready to start adding speech bubbles to your photos or turning them into comics? Our Photo Editor has everything you could ever need and then some. Follow the link below to get started!

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7 Best Speech Bubble Makers to Try in 2024

By Eva Williams 19 days ago, Software Reviews

To show your character’s thoughts or make it speak in an image or a video, you should try one of these speech bubble makers. You can add such word balloons to any subject including a person, an animal, a cartoon character, and even an inanimate object. The programs reviewed in this guide are available online, and some of them are great for enhancing photos, while others are designed with clip editing in mind.

Top 7 Speech Bubble Makers

• Adobe Express - Numerous templates
• Canva - Colors are easy to adjust
• Phrase.it - Offers various filters
• PiZap - A myriad of fonts and text effects
• VistaCreate - Excellent customization options
• FlexClip - The best program for video
• Kapwing - Instant sharing with friends

When selecting the programs for this review, I considered such aspects as interface convenience and availability of templates for a streamlined workflow. Besides, some options also offer additional features for enhancing images, resizing and cropping them.

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1. Adobe Express — Our Choice

• Many free and premium templates
• Tools for customizing speech bubbles based on your design
• Great selection of text shapes
• Excellent tool for novices

Verdict : Adobe Express allows creating a dynamic composition of pictures, icons, and text by including speech balloons in your design. Users can take advantage of various templates to create bubbles according to specific demands. Select the desired template, customize it to your preferences, and save your design.

This Adobe software has a convenient search function, which you can use to find a speech balloon and icon in an instant. To achieve the desired result, change the size, color, and orientation of a shape. Users who’ve purchased the premium subscription of this free photo collage maker , get access to more advanced templates, pictures, and fonts.

• Many text bubble layouts
• Optimized for mobile platforms
• Allows for direct sharing on social networks
• Accurate color correction
• Limited functionality in a free version

Verdict : Using Canva , you can add dialogues to an image or turn a set of pictures into comics with the help of speech balloons. To include a speech balloon in your design, find the desired shape in the image collection and click on it. The style and form of a balloon help express the emotions hidden behind the text. Additionally, this graphic design software allows customizing the color of a balloon, text, change the size, and font.

Except for text, you can include some images in a speech balloon. Browse the picture library in search of the “speech bubble frame” and choose a proper shape. Drag a picture and put it into a frame. It is great that the program crops a picture automatically, and if you want to adjust an image, simply choose the speech balloon and click “crop”.

3. Phrase.it

• Access to stock images
• Filters to spice up photos
• Works lag-free in different browsers
• Collection of ready-made speech bubbles
• No way to choose your favorite stock image

Verdict : Phrase.it is an online speech bubble generator. You can either upload media files from your PC or use random stock images. Thanks to the drag-and-drop functionality, you can easily add a speech balloon clipart to a picture. Afterward, you can insert the text into a bubble.

Besides, Phrase.it allows combining several images into a single cartoon strip and sprucing them up with filters. A considerable drawback of this program is the impossibility to choose a stock photo that you like, as an image is uploaded to your workspace automatically.

• Customizable speech balloons
• Numerous fonts and text effects
• Can be used by smartphone owners
• Allows saving finished projects to the cloud
• Registration is obligatory

Verdict : PiZap is probably the best speech bubble maker if you want to complement images with text bubbles in a quick way. Click on the speech bubble and relocate it to the desired part of your picture. You can also experiment with various fonts and text effects. Using this software for photo borders , resizing a speech balloon is a breeze.

For more creative tweaks, you can add stickers, clip art, custom emojis, and other elements to your composition. The program is optimized for computer and smartphone usage. Once you’ve created an image with a text bubble, you can send your design to friends and relatives. Sharing photos on social networks is possible right from the program. If needed, you can save your designs to free storage.

5. VistaCreate

• Easy-to-manage shapes and templates for creating speech bubbles
• Multiple fonts
• Tools for editing clips
• Stylish text effects
• Only suitable for videos

Verdict : VistaCreate is a user-friendly comic speech bubble generator, which is a perfect option for beginners. It allows adding text bubbles to an image in just a few steps. Make your pictures alive with this online platform by showing what your character is pondering over by using speech balloons. Besides, you can experiment with colors and styles for a more personalized result.

VistaCreate allows changing a speech bubble outline. To do this, click on the outline and select the appropriate color. You can also use animated elements to add movement to your photo.

6. FlexClip

• Automatic backups
• It is available for business and personal
• Notifications if backups fail
• Easy restore process
• Weak functionality
• Expensive subscription

Verdict : FlexClip is a great speech bubble creator if you are mainly involved in video improving. You can create a balloon with default shapes or choose one of the animated bubble templates and make customizations. To add a text balloon, head to the Elements tab to select the desired template. Next, choose the “Text” option and scan through the variety of text effects to find a perfect one.

You can customize your text with original fonts to make your design more stylish. Another considerable advantage is that the program is absolutely free and doesn’t add a watermark to the finished project.

• Many ways to add a speech balloon
• Text editing options
• A mobile version available
• Easy sharing on social media platforms
• Not for total newbies

Verdict : To insert a text balloon using Kapwing, look for the necessary clip art on the main toolbar. Another way is to choose “Images” and then an “Emoji” tab. The program has an extensive collection of built-in bubbles for Apple iOS. Besides, you can find a speech bubble PNG in Google or use the shape from the “Shapes” tab. The fill and outline color of the bubble can be easily changed.

Once you’ve created and added a bubble, click on your picture overlay to change the size or position of your design. If you like an emoji, select the “Add Text” tab to insert some phrases. You can also resize the text to make it look perfect inside the speech balloon.

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Speech Bubbles: 10 Astonishing Templates for Presentations

If you want to get your message across loud and clear, why not use speech bubbles in your presentations? This tool, so common in comic books, can be used in many ways and for many purposes. Moreover, it will bring a fun, lively, and modern touch to your presentations. So enjoy our selection of 10 free speech bubbles templates for PowerPoint and Google Slides! They will undoubtedly leave your audience speechless!

Speech bubbles , also called speech balloons, is a quite recent graphic invention. However, there is no doubt it is here to stay. Indeed, what better way is there to report the exact words or thoughts of a person? Dialogue balloons are also very effective to transcribe dialogues in a conversation.

In this selection of 10 astonishing speech bubble templates , you will realize their uses are manifold. You will indeed find word balloons for quotes, ideas, and thoughts but also circular and linear process diagrams, radial converging charts, and other specialized slides. Choose the speech balloon template that best fits the needs of your next presentation and download it for free. Remember the bubbles when you are going to give your next speech!

1. Brainstorm and Ideas

A light bulb inside your brain: the perfect metaphor for brilliant ideas! This is exactly what this free Brainstorm and Ideas template for Google Slides and PowerPoint illustrates. The head silhouette in the center allows you to highlight the cleverness of your thoughts. But how can you express and share them? Thanks to speech bubbles, of course! The head is indeed surrounded by four colorful speech balloons. Besides, there is another text placeholder to describe the main idea of your brainstorming .

2. Speech Bubble Collection

Do you need a speech bubble with a specific shape, size, or color? You will probably find it in our Speech Bubble Collection. Indeed, this free slide for Google Slides and PowerPoint contains a set of seven speech bubble illustrations. You will find round, square, rectangular, and oval word balloons. Of course, you can adjust the size and change the colors if you wish. These speech balloons are ideal to display verbatims, quotes, thoughts, and ideas.

3. Doodle Speech Bubbles

Do you need speech bubbles that look personalized and handcrafted? This Doodle Speech Bubbles template can actually fit a lot of purposes. This illustration with three horizontally-aligned speech balloons can be used to present quotes but also grouped lists of information. You will also find arrows that connect each bubble to the one on the right in order to emphasize their relationship. You can therefore employ this free diagram as a process or workflow chart. So, if you want to give a fun and informal touch to your presentation, download this free template now!

4. Speech Balloon Process

One idea always leads to another! This is the concept this speech balloon diagram will convey to your audience. You can indeed find 4-word balloons aligned horizontally and linked to each other thanks to the tails of each speech bubble. That is why this slide is perfect to showcase the connections and conversions from one step or idea to the next in your tasks, processes, or projects. Moreover, you can include absolutely anything inside each bubble: text, titles, icons, or numbers. So let your ideas speak for themselves with this free Speech Balloon Process slide template!

5. Cycle and Speech Bubbles

Even your cycle matrix diagram will benefit from a few speech bubbles, 4 to be exact! Indeed, you will be able to present the 4 options (stages, tasks, or steps) of your process or project thanks to the colorful circle in the center. Each stage is represented by an icon and a color that appears again in the 4 speech bubbles located around the circle. Not only can you write your main title at the center of the  cycle matrix but you can also use the  speech bubbles  on the side to describe your stages in detail.

6. Speech Bubble Converging Radial

All your ideas communicate with each other. In this free Converging Radial diagram, 6 speech bubbles face the central circle that represents your main concept or idea. Around it, you can find these 6 colorful speech balloons for you to express your thoughts and their relationship with the central idea or objective. This original way to present your thoughts, data, or projects will mesmerize your audience. You just have to choose the right icons and a brief title and text for each idea, and the convincing job is done!

7. Man and Woman Quotes

This amazing and unique design is an ingenious tool for you to display two quotes that you want to relate, compare or contrast. One will be a woman’s quote and the other will be a man’s words. Indeed, the negative space design technique used here represents a man and a woman’s head silhouette inside a speech bubble shape. The characters face different directions, thus emphasizing the dichotomy between the man and the woman’s quotes or thoughts. That is why this diagram is also ideal to compare the male and the female population, their opinions and perspectives.

8. Speech Bubble Grid

It’s time for everyone to speak up! Well, maybe not everyone but at least 6 people. You can indeed find 6 options in this free speech bubble grid for PowerPoint and Google Slides template. The most important part will be the messages, quotes, ideas, or thoughts that you can include clearly in the colorful speech balloons. You can also add a number and most importantly, an icon beneath each speech bubble to symbolize the intellectual author of the idea. Let everyone enjoy their freedom of speech!

9. Brain Quote Diagram

Where do your ideas and words come from? Obviously from your brain! We have therefore created an original design that represents a human brain looking like a speech bubble. The resemblance between both shapes is indeed uncanny. In addition, the brain is divided into 4 colorful parts in order to show 4 ideas, or thoughts. It can also be used as a matrix or to illustrate the concepts of brainstorming, mind, and creativity.

10. Businessman with 4 ideas

This businessman is never short of ideas! He actually has 4 at the same time. Thanks to this free Businessman with 4 ideas template slide for PowerPoint and Google Slides, he can express all of them at the same time! Around the businessman silhouette, you will indeed find 4 speech bubbles, ideal to illustrate 4 ideas, concepts, or projects. So unleash the leader inside you and share your brilliant ideas with the world!

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Animated Speech Bubbles: Make Speech Bubbles Pop Up and Disappear Randomly with CSS

Speech bubbles are a popular design element used to display text in an engaging and interactive way. Adding animation to speech bubbles can make them even more visually appealing and eye-catching. In this article, we will explore how to create animated speech bubbles using CSS, without the need for JavaScript. Specifically, we will focus on making the speech bubbles pop up and disappear randomly, giving a dynamic effect to the user interface.

Creating the Speech Bubble Structure

To begin, let's create the basic structure of the speech bubble using HTML and CSS. We will use the ::before and ::after pseudo-elements to create the tail and body of the speech bubble. Here's an example:

<div class="speech-bubble"> <div class="message">Hello!</div> </div>

.speech-bubble { position: relative; display: inline-block; } .speech-bubble::before, .speech-bubble::after { content: ""; position: absolute; display: block; width: 0; height: 0; border-style: solid; } .speech-bubble::before { border-color: transparent transparent #ffffff transparent; border-width: 10px; bottom: -20px; left: 50%; transform: translateX(-50%); } .speech-bubble::after { border-color: transparent transparent #cccccc transparent; border-width: 12px; bottom: -18px; left: 50%; transform: translateX(-50%); }

In the above code, we define a `.speech-bubble` class that serves as the container for our speech bubble. The `::before` and `::after` pseudo-elements are used to create the tail and body of the bubble, respectively. The dimensions, colors, and positioning can be adjusted as per your preference.

Adding Animation to the Speech Bubbles

Now, let's add the animation to make the speech bubbles pop up and disappear randomly. We can achieve this effect by using CSS keyframes and the `animation` property. Here's an example:

@keyframes pop-up { 0% { transform: scale(0); opacity: 0; } 50% { transform: scale(1.2); opacity: 1; } 100% { transform: scale(1); opacity: 1; } } @keyframes disappear { 0% { transform: scale(1); opacity: 1; } 50% { transform: scale(0.8); opacity: 0.5; } 100% { transform: scale(0); opacity: 0; } } .speech-bubble { animation: pop-up 1s ease-in-out infinite; } .speech-bubble:hover { animation: disappear 1s ease-in-out forwards; }

In the above code, we define two keyframes animations: `pop-up` and `disappear`. The `pop-up` animation gradually scales the speech bubble from 0 to 1.2, while increasing its opacity. The `disappear` animation scales the speech bubble from 1 to 0, while reducing its opacity.

We apply the `pop-up` animation to the speech bubble by default, using the `.speech-bubble` class. This will make the bubbles continuously pop up and appear on the screen.

Additionally, we add the `disappear` animation when the user hovers over the speech bubble. This animation will play once and keep the bubble hidden after the animation completes, thanks to the `forwards` value.

Feel free to customize the animation timings, durations, and easing functions to achieve the desired effect.

In this article, we explored how to create animated speech bubbles using CSS, without the need for JavaScript. By adding animation to speech bubbles, we can make them pop up and disappear randomly, creating an engaging and dynamic user interface.

We started by creating the basic structure of the speech bubble using HTML and CSS. Then, we added animation to the speech bubbles using CSS keyframes and the `animation` property. The `pop-up` animation made the bubbles appear on the screen, while the `disappear` animation hid them after the user interaction.

Remember, you can further enhance and customize these animations by adjusting various properties like scale, opacity, and timing functions.

With the techniques learned in this article, you can create visually appealing speech bubbles that captivate your audience and add a touch of interactivity to your web designs.

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"So Deadpool speaks with a yellow outline around his speech balloons? What exactly is that supposed to sound like? I can just imagine a movie studio trying to cast someone for the role of Deadpool: Must be able to speak English clearly with yellow outline around dialogue. Red outline voices need not apply! " — Marvel Year in Review 1993 note  According to Cable , Deadpool has a "gravelly, Demi Moore -like voice" which the coloring of the bubble is meant to represent; also, as the coloring switched to digital, Deadpool's speech bubbles switched to entirely light yellow, although with the same effect. Also, someone eventually did get cast as Deadpool in a movie.

At their most basic, Speech Bubbles are floating text circles (or other shapes ) that characters in Comic Books and Webcomics or other dimensionally-challenged media use to communicate.

But Speech Bubbles aren't only generic circles or places to put words; they're metafictional constructs that can be painted, shaped , and written different ways!

Usually the speech bubbles have the following meanings depending on the shape and color:

• Normal speech bubbles : Normal character speech
• Rectangular speech bubbles with lightning bolt arrow : Mechanical voices
• Superimposed bubbles : Interruption . Different characters can be given different shapes or colors of bubble, making keeping track of who is speaking easier, as well as how they're feeling.
• Speech bubble with inwards arrow : Offscreen character speech. More common in manga than in western media.
• Speech bubbles with dotted lines : Whispering
• Speech bubbles with outward spikes : Screaming and yelling
• Spiky bubbles, often with lightning arrow : Announcements
• Fluffy speech bubbles with circles instead of arrow : Thinking. Also known as thought bubbles.
• Drooping speech bubbles with shadows : Menacing speech
• Slightly wavy speech bubbles : Weak speech
• Black speech bubbles : Some villains and monsters like to use black speech balloons and strange colored text

If any character needs a subtly menacing tone to their speech, then it can be rendered in a black speech balloon with either white or red text (the latter maybe implying more anger). Also, madness can be indicated with mangled text, and foreign languages or accents with exotic fonts.

See Pictorial Speech-Bubble for when a Speech Bubble contains only symbols rather than words, and Rebus Bubble for when this is specifically used like a rebus puzzle. Speech-Bubble Censoring covers strategic placement of speech bubbles to preserve characters' modesty.     open/close all folders 

• The use of Halos in Western religious art was, at least in part, to function as Speech Bubbles, putting the prayers of angels or famous Papal quotations as written text on the Halo itself.
• Most comics use different forms of speech bubble to represent telepathy, internal dialogue, phone calls etc., etc.
• In Season 8 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer , Warren speaks with irregular and somewhat-squiggly bubbles and Twilight talks in a different font.
• The Invisibles uses speech bubbles to good effect.
• Several characters in The Sandman (1989) have distinctive speech bubbles or fonts — each of the Endless and Matthew, in particular. At one point, Matthew "imitates" Morpheus with a speech bubble that looks like his. Delirium's speech bubbles contain wild swirls of color and wavering text, but when she was Delight (and sane), the colors were subdued and straight, and the text linear. Death is the sanest and most down-to-earth of the Endless and the only one whose Speech Bubbles are completely normal.
• Jamie Madrox's duplicates in X-Factor get slightly different fonts from standard speech bubbles.
• The language of the Goths is represented by a Gothic font, Greeks speak in an angular font resembling the Greek alphabet, and Egyptian speech bubbles contain hieroglyph-style rebuses (even for onomatopoeia). When Obelix repeats a phrase in Egyptian, it looks like a shakily-drawn stick figure.
• Asterix and the Cauldron features a Roman tax gatherer whose rectangular speech bubbles resembles modern tax forms, complete with check boxes.
• In Asterix and the Roman Agent , anyone falling under the discord-sowing powers of Convulvus (the titular agent) gets a speech bubble tinted green. When Obelix's anger subsides, his bubbles become progressively whiter.
• When our heroes complain to the camp cook about the army food in Asterix the Legionary , the cook responds with mocking sweetness, before yelling his head off. While he's being nice, his speech bubbles are filled with smiling suns, flowers, singing birds and music notes.
• In Asterix and Caesar's Gift , when Vitalstatistix and Orthopaedix introduce their respective wives, Impedimenta and Angina, to each other, the wives say "Pleased to meet you" to each other in irregularly-shaped bubbles with icicles and snow dripping off them.
• Nearly every important character in Watchmen has either a different color/style speech bubble, or a different font. Sometimes both.
• Martian Manhunter is usually depicted with a wavy tail to his bubbles, and rarely a wobbly edge to the circle, though what exactly that represents is uncertain.
• The Vision traditionally spoke with a square bubble to indicate a cold, robotic voice. In recent years, they have been redesigned to be round, with points cut into the top, bottom, and both sides. They're also used for all synthezoids, like his daughter.
• Thor's font is used for any Asgardian character; even his cyborg clone Ragnarok, and Beta Ray Bill , an alien who uses a copy of his powers, use it.
• This style of speech bubble is used with different colorations for anyone wearing similar armor.
• Ultron has been given rectangular shaped bubbles a lot in more modern times, and Jocasta, one of his creations and a mainstay of the Mighty Avengers lineup, speaks with a font that seems like Comic Sans/Arial as opposed to normal lettering.
• In Great Lakes Avengers Deathurge speaks with all black Speech Bubbles, as does Doorman after he takes up Deathurge's mantle. And actually it's a generally kept convention that death-related or demonic characters get black bubbles.
• Super-Skrull speaks with green Speech Bubbles in Annihilation : Super-Skrull .
• Speaking of Annihilation , in the Drax The Destroyer tie in all aliens speaking in their native tongues get weird bubbles plus in the series proper Annihilus gets purple ones, Tenebrous gets black ones, Aegis gets red ones, and The Xandarian Worldmind gets square ones with a yellow border.
• Thanos speaks in rugged speech bubbles with thick black outlines.
• Depending on the writer, various characters have distinctive font and speech bubble styles, including Ben Grimm (pretty much all the time) and Johnny Storm (whose speech bubbles take on a fiery appearance when he's using his powers) ; and Wolverine , particularly when berserk .
• With enough experience the conventions do sometimes double as Interface Spoiler . For example: Black bubble with Asgardian font? Gee... could it be Hela?!
• It's also worth mentioning that in the early stories, before Humans and Elves learned to understand each other's languages, human language (which sounded ugly to the elves) was represented by rough, angular speech bubbles instead of the neatly rounded speech bubbles normally used when the elves were speaking.
• In PS238 , aspiring supervillain and world conqueror Zodon has a chip inserted into his head to make him stop cussing all the time. The innocuous words that replace his attempts to swear are rendered in a blocky font. When he really goes caroling ape- beans , he starts singing show tunes.
• In Atomic Robo the titular character's speech bubbles are blue with small zig-zags on both sides and have a lightning bolt shaped tail. Helsingard as a Brain in a Jar has brown square bubbles. Everyone has a jagged outline over a radio and a dotted one when they're whispering.
• Transformers: Generation 2 introduced computer-generated text bubbles courtesy of Richard Starkings and Comicraft, giving the Autobots and Decepticons very distinct fonts, and colored panels along the left side of the bubbles corresponding with the characters' colors. Autobots had square panels and a clean-looking font, while Decepticons had triangles and a harsher, more angular font. The Dinobots, being rougher than the regular Autobots, had trapezoidal panels (with the occasional triangle) but otherwise used the Autobot font.
• Subsequent series from other publishers have experimented with different styles with different effects, such as Megatron in Dreamwave's third volume speaking in black speech bubbles with white text. Most recently, the IDW books tended to just use standard speech bubbles. Starting from around issue 14 of The Transformers: Robots in Disguise , Combiners get uniquely coloured speech bubbles based on the subject's own colour-scheme (so Devestator gets green bubbles with purple font). After Dark Cybertron , Bludgeon starts speaking in black bubbles with white text, a trait shared by Onyx Prime . Centurion, from Revolutionaries , speaks with the squared speech bubbles of Furman's era (matching the bubbles from the series he was "introduced" in, Hearts of Steel ).
• In Teri Sue Wood's Wandering Star , all the characters have elaborately hand-drawn dialogue, except for a group of mind-controlled slaves; theirs is typewritten.
• Normal humans as well as the titular character of Hellboy have white speech bubbles with standard comic book font and short trails. Demons and horrors generally have red or purple speech bubles with longer, wavy trails and sharp letters. Aquatic creatures have blue speech bubbles. The demon Ualac goes from normal white bubbles to wavy golden ones when he becomes the beast of the apocalypse .
• Disney had for a time comics about baby versions of their characters. Baby Gyro Gearloose spoke in speech bubbles outlined by equations and formulas. Considering Gyro is an inventor as well as terribly scatterbrained, it probably represents that his mind's elsewhere while he's talking.
• This is quite a common gag in many comics.
• The biochips in Rogue Trooper have sort of semi-circular indentations in the edges of their bubbles.
• In Atavar , the Uos' speech bubbles are square and all their dialogue is bold . In the first few panels, before Atavar gains the ability to speak their language, the Kalen's dialogue is represented by random Greek letters.
• The speech bubbles in Cerebus the Aardvark could be incredibly expressive and as artistic as anything else that was going on in the comic, especially when Cerebus was drunk, mad, or having an argument with himself.
• Null of Halcyon seems to "speak" through black narration boxes with white text, which doesn't stop anyone from hearing him. The font also changes when characters are speaking in a foreign language, à la Discworld .
• Since an assassination attempt in a hacked virtual reality simulation, Ramone Dexter has become aware of his own thought bubbles.
• Norby : The backgrounds of the bubbles in this series switch between white and yellow to help them stand out against the background, which also tends to switch between those two colours (other colours, too, but predominantly white and yellow).
• Black Hammer has distinctive speech bubbles for several of the characters. Colonel Weird's speech bubbles have a wavy border and light grey text to reflect that he's physically and mentally not all there. Talky-Walky has grey speech bubbles with a square border and bolded, blocky text to reflect her robotic nature. And Anti-God has black speech bubbles with a red border and text to emphasize his evilness. Everyone else uses normal speech bubbles.
• Hound : Morrigan's lines of dialogue are rendered in mixed case with a unique font.
• This has been in the Doctor Who Magazine comic strip a few times. Most notably, the distinctive voice-treatment given to Daleks is represented as an angular font in a jagged speech bubble. This has been the case since they had their own strip in TV Century 21 in the 1960s.
• In Don Rosa 's early The Pertwillaby Papers series, nearly every character had their own specific font and speech bubble design, reflecting their personalities. The tradition carried over to his Scrooge McDuck stories in part later on.
• In Pogo , P. T. Bridgeport spoke in circus posters, Deacon Mushrat used Olde Englishe lettering, and Sarcophagus MacAbre (the natural-born buzzard) spoke like a sympathy note.
• Manfred Schmidt, author of German comic Nick Knatterton , commented that they were a primitive tool in his POV — "bubbles coming from the heads, eyes, ears, noses or mouths of characters to indicate what they think, see, hear, smell or say".
• On Calvin and Hobbes , The Bully Moe has crudely-written text in lowercase letters for his bubbles to indicate how dumb he is. When aliens or robots appear, their bubbles are rectangular and have electronic fonts.
• The 1925 silent film The Unholy Three has a rare use of this trope in a live-action film. A con man, who used to be a ventriloquist and is now selling birds at a pet store, is tricking customers into thinking his parrots can talk by throwing his voice. Since this was a silent film, it gets this effect across by having speech bubbles pop up above the various caged parrots saying parrot things like "Pretty Polly".
• The Three Stooges short " I Can Hardly Wait " uses a thought bubble when Curly first starts dreaming, showing his dream inside the thought bubble for a few seconds before going to full screen.
• Discussed in When Harry Met Sally... . Harry is telling Jess about his marital troubles. His wife Helen had said she wants a trial separation. Harry: Then she tells me that somebody in her office is going to South America and she can sub-let his apartment. I can't believe this, and the doorbell rings, 'I can sub-let his apartment', the words are still hanging in the air, you know, like in a balloon attached to a mouth. Jess: Like in the cartoon. Harry: Right. So I go to the door, and there were moving men there.
• Funeral Parade of Roses : A deeply weird use of this trope. The Cat Fight between Leda and Eddie has the movie going into silent film mode for a second, with Leda and Eddie hurling insults like "Bitch!" and "Whore!" at each other via speech bubbles spilling out of their mouths.
• Death Note does this, at least in the English manga. The shinigami speak in a different font than the human characters.
• Doraemon : In "A World Without Sound" , the characters' thoughts are displayed in bubbles. Their thoughts are rendered in a different font than their spoken dialogue.
• D.N.Angel uses this trope as well. Dark speaks in a curly fancy kind of font.
• The font in speech bubbles in Fullmetal Alchemist is usually static, but has a tendency to change in certain circumstances. Among the more memorable instances, Roy Mustang's words become elongated and sharp (and punctuated by little "grr"s) in the scene where he threatens to fry Barry the Chopper for putting a hand on Riza Hawkeye.
• The Occult Club president from Mahoraba alternated within each word between hiragana and katakana ; one scanlation represented this by capitalizing eVeRy OtHeR lEtTeR.
• Mokona in Tsubasa -RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE- (original version) speaks in a rounded font. It takes a while to learn to read it...
• Kengamine Nagi in Deadman Wonderland speaks with a synthesizer, which is illustrated through squarish, angled speech bubbles (as opposed to the round ones that the rest of the cast gets.
• Yotsuba in Yotsuba&! speaks entirely in hiragana, which emphasizes her childishness. This effect, alas, has not been reproduced in any English translation.
• Also, the French official translation renders Chachamaru's (and strangely, Kokone's ) bubbles with a different font to reflect a robotic voice.
• Fruits Basket uses odd-shaped panels and unusual fonts throughout to convey emotions.
• At one point in Sekirei , Kazehana greets Minato upon his returning home and her dialogue appears in heart-shaped speech bubbles... at which point Miya scolds her about this , claiming they're against the rules.
• Ai Yori Aoshi and other manga with romance in the plot often have bubbly speech bubbles to represent nervous babbling. Sometimes the bubbles will have their own Sweat Drop .
• Normal human speech is in plain round speech bubbles, with a tail pointing to the onscreen speaker.
• Narration is in plain rectangular speech bubbles. No tails to imply anyone speaking the text.
• A Radio Voice is indicated for broadcasts and speakers by using double-lined rectangular speech bubble, with little spokes along the edges. No tails.
• Shouting is shown by using an angular speech bubble, as if the speaker drew the bubble while upset and was trying to draw a rectangle. Usually has a tail pointing at the speaker.
• Priest uses this a lot; Protagonist Ivan, spirit guide Belial, big bad Temozerala, his demon lieutenants when they transform, and the zombies all have their own fonts.
• Berial in The Tarot Cafe speaks in an elegant Gothic font.
• In what will probably be the only example of characters in prose literature speaking in dialogue balloons, Who Censored Roger Rabbit? by Gary K. Wolf features a world where human beings live side-by-side with cartoon and comics characters. The 'toons communicate via visible dialogue balloons (they even come out of the phone), but can learn to enunciate verbally if they so desire.
• A roundabout example from The Adolescence of P1 , during conversations carried out in text using a dumb terminal connected to a computer, the human side of the conversation is represented by using all lower case text and the titular AI's side is represented by all upper case text.
• All of the dialogue in One Cool Friend is written in line with the rest of the book's text but is wrapped in a speech bubble. Even the blurb on the dust jacket has the lines by Elliot and his father in speech bubbles.
• The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah band used speech bubbles in live performances for comic effect, saying things like "Wow! I'm really expressing myself!"
• Janis Joplin : The album cover of Cheap Thrills uses them, because Robert Crumb did the illustration work.
• Frank Zappa : Zappa also used speech bubbles a lot on his album covers and in the gatefold sleeves, most notably Lumpy Gravy , We're Only in It for the Money , Uncle Meat , Cruising with Ruben & the Jets , Weasels Ripped My Flesh and Läther .
• George Clinton also does this often, both as a solo artist, as well on albums by Parliament and Funkadelic.
• Dungeons & Dragons : In the Planescape setting, the phirblas are a strange race of humanoids who communicate by using a variant of telepathy to form words in the air right above them, about ten at a time, appearing in the language of their intended recipient. The nature of said script indicates the phirblas' emotional state, so flowing and elegant letters are used for a formal address, while quick and simple text indicates a casual conversation, messy writing indicates that the phirblas is in a hurry or doesn't wish to converse, and shaky script suggests emotional distress. This trait suggests some connection between the phirblas and the dabus of Sigil, who famously communicate by projecting Rebus Bubbles above their heads, but nothing conclusive has been proven.
• ANNO: Mutationem : The dialogue between characters has the speech bubble appearing as a floating square-shaped box appearing overhead on whoever is speaking.
• Danganronpa : The climax-reasoning segment of trials depict some characters have a speech bubble with random text to fit the situation.
• In SaGa Frontier , the words in your character's speech bubbles are different colors than everyone else's. If you run into another one of the main characters during a storyline, their words are the same color as your own.
• City of Heroes represents characters' speech in speech bubbles. Players can choose the color of their bubbles and text.
• In Star Control II , each race's speech is subtitled in a different font. These vaguely match their personalities, so the Ur-Quan have large, bold text while the Utwig have thin, wobbly, depressed-looking text.
• Characters talking normally have a regular rounded bubble with normal font size. If a character is extremely shocked or angry, not only the font goes all caps, but the font size grows HUGE and sometimes the speech bubble becomes more pointy instead of round. Characters who are scared or angry may use fonts that wiggle and characters who are very quiet or growing quiet have the font shrink and/or become a light gray instead of the standard black. Truly evil characters have a purple speech bubble.
• In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door at least, Boss characters also have a different sound effect that goes with the scrolling text in their speech bubbles.
• The Mario & Luigi trilogy shares this love for playing with the speech bubbles.
• In Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines , the Malkavian font is like cut out letters from a paper.
• Banjo-Kazooie and Conker's Bad Fur Day have them throughout each cutscene.
• In Final Fantasy IX , every character has them throughout the game, even with the scrolling text in them.
• Persona 5 : Black and red bubbles with "..." in them appear above NPCs who have things to say, and dialogue now appears as square boxes with triangular attachments pointing to the mouths of the Character Portraits that accompany them.
• Touch Detective has the rare feature of the connector tracking the speaker if they are moving.
• Speech bubbles appear above NPCs or smileys when talking. A smaller bubble with "..." appears above NPCs before initiating a dialogue, or above smileys when moving.
• A black speech bubble appears above a sign that's being read, or above a tile whose metadata is being checked.
• Ava's Demon shows off the characters' various colour schemes in their speech bubbles (fill, lettering, and outlines). This is also used to emphasize altered states like curses and being near death.
• In A Moment of Peace , humans have normal speech bubbles and gods speak in floating, colored, Comic Sans MS text.
• By the Tail : Most of the cast have regular speech bubbles. Echo, meanwhile, speaks in black, dripping letters, while Sugar and Spice speak with with rather oriental-looking letters.
• In Exterminatus Now , the Dark Gods have different colored speech bubbles and fonts, and the main character's superior's speech bubble is black with white text. He himself is nearly always in shadow. The writer pointed this out in the comments for the comic.
• Gunnerkrigg Court uses a different color balloon for each character; the differences are usually subtle. When Shadow2 copies another character's voice, this is indicated by his balloon's color. One character's bodily possession is indicated by overlapping balloons. Initially even minor character got their own bubble colors, but this was later dropped; in later chapters, only the major characters get colored speech bubbles. Most minor characters have even lost the bubble colors they once had (e.g. Paz, whose bubbles used to be brown, but now are a generic white).
• Similarly, Irregular Webcomic! uses different colors for different characters, or at least tries to. Many characters and many crossovers have led to a few cases where multiple characters in a strip speak with the same (or very similar) colors.
• Richard from Looking for Group falls under this proposed trope.
• Undead have black speech bubbles with white text. When Xykon becomes a lich in Start of Darkness and his speech bubbles change to the undead format, he comments on his dramatic, echoey voice . Redcloak clarifies that this is because Xykon no longer has a functional larynx, so his voice is magically powered by negative energy.
• Diverse colored speech bubbles for outsiders such as gods, celestials, infernals, and ghosts. Infernals usually have black speech bubbles with colored text inside (lampshaded with Qarr the imp, who is recognized by his red-on-black speech bubbles). Celestials have brightly colored bubbles with black text. Elemental spirits like Celia have a color related to their plane of origin.
• Dragons and half-dragons also have colored speech bubbles linked to their species. Giants too, it seems.
• The shape is sometimes significant too, like with Lawful Neutral Modrons having rectangular bubbles. invoked
• The connectors pointing to which character is speaking also give indications. They are straight when the speaker is healthy, but become irregular for a sick, stunned, drunk, confused, wounded or dying character, to represent shaky speech. Malack's are always this way until he shows his Game Face , hinting of a raspy or hissy voice.
• More classically, bubbles with dotted borders and grey text indicate whispering. Zz'dtri's bubbles always have grey text, since he's The Quiet One and hardly ever raises his voice.
• Early in the comic, mumbling to oneself or aside comments by the characters were texts without bubbles and just a connector. But this became rarer and rarer and has phased out by book 3 — except for the Demon-Roaches, who only ever talk this way .
• Erfworld uses one font (Maiandra GD) for real-world characters (including Parson even after he is summoned into Erfworld), and another (Gorilla Milkshake) for Erfworld's native inhabitants.
• Coga Suro has the usual convention of robots having square speech balloons. Most of them, anyway. Styx, an evil example, has black speech balloons with white text. For a few chapters, each character had a different font, but this was dropped later.
• Comic Book SNAFU uses speech bubbles with different colors or fonts for certain characters, particularly to denote non-human characters like Lancer or Mark Twelve.
• Chainmail Bikini uses a different font for each player (with the same font being used for table talk by the player and in-character statements by that player's character).
• The Wotch uses a black speech-bubble with white letters for Dark Lord Xaos. During a flashback, you see the moment where he discards his old persona as the Lawful Good "Worlock", and dons the spikey darkey helmet of Lawful Evil Lord Xaos; his speech-bubbles reverse their colors from one panel to the next.
• Spider-Man Unlimited (2023) : In the first issue, "Doctor Doom" gets normal speech bubbles until he's revealed as a Doombot robot duplicate. At that point he switches to italics and his speech bubbles acquire jagged tails, emphasising his mechanical nature.
• Bob and George has the Shadowy Author, whose bubbles are normal colored, but just float around without the tail pointing to his mouth. About two years before the end of the comic, his speech balloons suddenly gain a tail; this is our first clue that it's actually George, pretending to be the Shadowy Author .
• Dream Catcher typically uses a standard font for everyone, except early on in the gateworld where they briefly used hard to read cursive text.
• Similarly M9 Girls! used a different font for each major character. For example, the Valley Girl character had a very fancy font, while the villain would get a gothic-looking font. The authors seem to have dropped this in later chapters.
• Agatha and other "Sparks" get a gradual change of font as they draw more and more on the madness that is their source of power... it's not just for decoration, either. With all the cool machines the Sparks can build, it's easy to forget their most insidious power — the ability to draw the easily-impressionable to them, binding their wills, and turning them into "minions". When the font starts getting curly, people start kneeling. Agatha just has a bit of extra punch in that department, thanks to her Mongfish blood.
• When Bangladesh DuPree breaks her jaw and has it wired shut, her speech bubbles become rebuses. Some of Agatha's little clanks "speak" using rebuses as well.
• The Geisterdamen have their own particular fonts, but the same speech bubbles as human characters.
• The Last Days of FOXHOUND does the inverse. When Decoy Octopus is in disguise, his speech bubble remains white, making it easier for readers to identify him. Each character has their own colors of speech bubble, with their own Painting the Medium moments. When Psycho Mantis is using his powers, his text turns from black to red green. It's when he goes totally nuts that his text turns red. And when one character is possessing another, the possessing spirit's speech bubble is used. This is actually used in the last comic, to reveal that Big Boss has taken over Ocelot's mind, not Liquid as the games would have you believe .
• Combo Rangers has speech bubbles Color-Coded for Your Convenience , in accordance to the character's uniform colors. This was useful when it was revealed that a Big Bad was a clone of Power Combo, thanks to their similar speech bubbles.
• The style and fonts used in The Monster & The Girl for each of the major characters. Mayu has blurred edge rounded speech bubbles, Kenrick has extremely ragged edged rectangular speech bubbles.
• Since the characters of 1/0 are actually in a comic strip, they have no audio even to them; their voices are distinguished instead by their fonts. Well, they seem to "hear" their voices, but in the same sense that we do — by seeing the fonts and imagining how they sound. This provokes a bizarre conversation halfway through the strip where they begin arguing about what their voices sound like. Zadok the grass golem is told that only he thinks his voice is a sexy rich baritone instead of a creepy rustling scratching.
• This convention was picked up by Darths & Droids ... and nearly every Campaign Comic in existence.
• And in the recent Deep-Immersion Gaming portions of The Wotch .
• The B-Side Comics from Applegeeks use a similar system: conversations between the artist and writer have the artist speak normally through his avatar and the writer using only square speech balloons while remaining offscreen, almost as a Narrator.
• David Hopkins' Jack uses a very distinctive style of speech bubble with notches along the border for any dialogue spoken by the Sins in the strip and a second distinctive style for those characters who are/were Fallen angels, although the latter is rarely seen. Also, Candy and Ryan Dewalt, the pair behind Vinci and Arty , did a story arc for Jack (with full approval from David Hopkins) and brought their talent for character-specific fonts to Jack .
• One strip from Lick My Jesus (which is regrettably defunct) had one character agreeing with everything another said. It turned out to be because he didn't understand what the person was saying — because he didn't speak Papyrus. The rest of the strip was a series of gags which involved treating fonts as if they were languages.
• In The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob! , Starfish Aliens often speak in hexagon-shaped balloons, while robots usually speak in stylized square balloons reminiscent of the Marvel Comics Transformers .
• College Roomies from Hell!!! 's speech bubbles are mostly in the distinctive "Good Dog" font, but Satan has his own font, and the cyborgised Brazil speaks in a plainer font to suggest his computer-synthesised monotone.
• In Kagerou , different colors are used to differentiate characters, as well as to show which of Kano's personalities is at the fore. His speech bubbles usually match his eyes .
• The Way of the Metagamer started out using Comic Sans for everything. Later on, it switched to Gemelli — but when characters are under mind control or otherwise possessed, their font changes back to Comic Sans. Additionally, the narrator speaks with floating rectangles instead of bubbles — whenever a character imitates the narrator , they too use rectangles.
• Drowtales uses differently colored speech bubbles for different characters. In one panel, Ariel and Chirinide both yell at Kyonne to leave them, and share one bubble with a gradient between their respective colors.
• The comic has mostly normal speech bubbles, but occasionally, an Immortal (or flat-out Eldritch Abominations ) get black speech bubbles that get progressively less normal as they get angry and/or emotional. The Goo doesn't even have a speech bubble, subtly implying that the Goo does not speak using vocals, but instead through telepathy of some sort.
• Also, in one strip, where a new character with long hair is introduced, a little bubble naming him shows up with "gothic" script. He glances over and notices it, physically strikes it with a fist , and it reverts to normal text. It's in the "one-shot" strips, though, where that's more common.
• Yelling is indicated with spiky bubbles.
• Some Abyssals or otherwise death-aspected creatures get white text on a black background.
• Marena has a more animalistic font when in her Deadly Beastman form.
• Nova and the semi-alchemicals have rectangular bubbles, with rounded corners.
• Unnatural Mental Influence is often indicated by the text having a color.
• The Unspeakable's speech bubbles use the Caslon font, as opposed to a "normal" comic font for other characters.
• Also, when Zalgo comes (and goes) in one of the strips, his speech bubbles are oddly-colored and covered in swirly lines.
• Kevin & Kell has started altering its bubbles; once converstations start showing up in 'feline', the bubbles grow cat ears and whiskers.
• Game Destroyers does things a little differently than most other web comics. Unlike other comics, there are no dialogue arrows on the speech bubbles in this comic. Instead, each character has a unique font, text color, and background color. Some characters who know telepathy speak in a rounded edge rectangle instead, whenever the author remembers that, anyway.
• In Level 30 Psychiatry translated Pokémon Speak is rendered in Blue and Yellow balloons reminisant of the Pokemon logo.
• In the xkcd " Time " animation, the Beanie People leader's speech to the protagonists is obfuscated in various ways (words written over each other, gray haze partially blocking the text) to represent the barely-bridged language barrier.
• In Digger , many characters haver unusual speech bubbles, particularly those that live underground. The Cold Servants speak in white-on-black text, and each word is in a different segment of speech bubble. Sweetgrass Voice has white-on-black words in his/its speech. Shadow Child also speaks in white-on-black, but in normal font and speech bubbles. The Statue of Ganesh always has straight edges around His words. The Skin Lizards speak in a different font than most characters.
• General Protection Fault uses a different font for alien speech. Beings from between the dimensions have an extra outline around their speech bubbles - when the webcomic was in color, the ring was red.
• In Funny Farm human characters speak in a handwriting font, while PC, ASCII, Tor the Calculate and other machines have a capitalized sans serif font.
• In one panel where Nintendo is drawn in CD-i Zelda style , she speaks in Comic Sans as opposed to the regular font.
• When a character is speaking from offscreen, their head will show up right next to/partially inside their speech bubble.
• Different fonts are used in Leif & Thorn to represent people speaking different languages. The speech bubbles of vampires are outlined in red.
• In Rusty and Co. , Malevolus speaks in black-letter font on scroll-shaped bubbles. His speech bubbles turn normal once, precisely because he's making an effort to disguise his voice.
• Splashmaster has white text on navy blue bubbles, with wavy tails. They also have water dripping off them, and his text is rendered in ALL CAPS to denote his Simpleton Voice .
• Noisemaster 's bubbles are neon with the colors changing every page. Each bubble has a "shadow" the same color as the text. When not playing up his raver persona, the bubbles use darker colors.
• His partner, Mutemaster , speaks in white-on-gray cloud-shaped bubbles. Mutemaster's magic power also removes the text from other characters' speech bubbles.
• Rosemaster speaks in white-on-green bubbles with vine-like appendages. The first letter of every bubble is also written in a fancier style, denoting her elegance. When angry, the bubbles become red and the vines have thorns. When she's empowered by a magical artifact, her bubbles are white-on-black with a pink outline, and the fancy lettering becomes fancier.
• Quakemaster speaks in blocky pitch-black charcoal bubbles with orange text. His text is also in ALL CAPS, though like Rosemaster, the first letter of every bubble is larger than the rest.
• Glitchmaster speaks entirely in EarthBound -styled text boxes, with each statement preceded by a bullet. When angered, her boxes become glitchy and misshapen and use a pixellated all-caps font.
• The final, unnamed Master speaks in dark blue bubbles with a fuzzy outline and its text uses a different typeface for every letter that aren't aligned with each other, giving off a very erratic feel.
• Fillbert : Most speech bubbles are black text on a white background. Fabian's speech bubbles are white text on a black background; he chose this because the default was too bright for him. Black text on yellow rectangles are a character .
• In Sleepless Domain Magical Girls have their speech bubble outline and fonts colored their main color, while civilians have the traditional black. Meanwhile, The Purple One has the inverse, the balloon itself is purple while the outline and the font are white. This mostly holds over when she fuses with Tessa, with the exception of when she poses as Tessa, in which it's the same as the normal magical girls to blend in.
• Pixie Trix Comix : When Zadie is introduced to Marie and is jealous over her closeness with Dante and Gwynn, there are icicles hanging from her speech bubble when she says, "Charmed."
• The Owl House : In the episode "Lost in Language", when Luz opens a graphic novel during the Wailing Star's influences, speech bubbles appear above Luz, Edric, and Emira's heads when they talk.
• Many cartoons of the silent era , such as Felix the Cat , would use Speech Bubbles as opposed to the word cards usually seen in live-action silent films. Lampshaded by Walt Disney in his first color television show, when he goes over how cartoons acted prior to the dawn of sound. Walt: And as for sound... Well, if a character had something to say, he said it like this. [ he notices a bubble with what he just said written in it, which he pops with a baton ]
• The Belgian cartoon short series Kabouter Wesley does show speech bubbles when the characters are talking. While this is mostly due to the cartoons being virtually unaltered adaptations of the comics they are based on, some of the series's absurd jokes involve characters directly referring to spelling mistakes in another character's speech balloon, so it is quite essential for the text to show up to make these jokes work.
• Thought bubbles are often used on The Simpsons to show what a character is thinking.
• In the Muppet Babies (1984) episode where the babies make their own newspaper, Fozzie makes a comic strip and points out the speech bubbles when they appear (starting with one that says "Booooo!" after his first joke). The bubbles eventually start hurting him when he runs into the pointers, and eventually crowd him out.
• In the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Sleepy Time", dreams are shown as thought bubbles, which SpongeBob's dream self is able to jump into and invade other's dreams .

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Speechbubbles keep getting messed up!

Can you send the script and the story link to me? I will try to help.

example @speechbubble is 123 456 to 100% with tail_top_left then for the next person you do @speechbubble reset @speechbubble 789 657 to 100% with tail_top_right and repeat. the web previewer may show seem like everything is perfect but it’s best to test it out on the app

You don’t have to reset the speech bubble everytime, just do one thing which I tried in my story. Test a scene. For example- INT. BACKGROUND @speechbubble — --- NEHA Hi, I am N. @speechbubble — --- KIARA Hi, I am Kiara.

Now what I mean is, if you have suppose 2 characters in a scene, set a speechbubble for one first and copy paste it on top of her dialogue in the whole scene. Then set speechbubble for another character and copy paste it on above that character in the whole scene. I hope I make scense. Let me know if you need it to be more clear.

Sorry for the caps. It was done by mistake.

That can happen if you preview mid episode. Make sure to reset zooms at the beginning of every scene. Otherwise, like stated above, check in the app as it may just be the web previewer.

It happened to me. Don’t put the “with tail_top_left”. (right, blah blah)

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Carl Radke  is sharing brand new details about his split from Lindsay Hubbard  — including whether or not he regrets breaking up with her while cameras were rolling on  Summer House  Season 8.

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What's more, Carl also confirmed what the main driving force behind their split was. 

Carl Radke revealed why he couldn't "move forward" with Lindsay Hubbard

Viewers will get to see the moment when Carl and Lindsay called their wedding off as Summer House Season 8 progresses, but Carl revealed on the March 14 episode of  Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen why he believes the two ultimately parted ways.

"I think a wedding is to celebrate your relationship, and there were foundational things that were not stable to move forward with a lifetime of marriage..." Carl said on  WWHL.  "I mean I believe in having a stable relationship before you celebrate a wedding, and we were not in that position, I believe, to move forward with the wedding."

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