Every New Year's Day in recent years has brought a special fonts sale from "The World's Greatest Comic Book Fonts!" aka Richard Starkings' Comicraft service.

The deal is simple enough: On New Year's Day 2000, for example, every font was priced at $20.00. Inflation being what it is, the price has gone up, now that it's New Year's Day 2009: $20.09.

But it was still a pleasure to browse the fonts and pick new favorites. For $20.09 each today, I bought SpillProof, CutthroatLower-Intl, and SignLanguage. You may find others that tickle your fancy. (If you don't already have ComicCrazy, for example, I recommend it for starters.)

But the offer's only good today.

Check it out! You, too, can pretend you're a comic-book letterer!