I wanted to add at least one Japanese element just to define its country of origin, so I did a series of tests with all the asian styled fonts in my Font Book, and I actually had some of my friends and family take a vote on which font speaks more of Japan, and after taking a look at the results, I finalized on the font “Shinzoku Brush”, which looks like old fashioned calligraphy. I love using fonts that have an old school or historic vibe, but also have a little bit of a modern taste to it and I thought it would be perfect for this collection of wanted posters. Now of course their names can fit on one side and even if they did, the bottom would feel empty even when they character is covering that side, so what I did is “cut their names in half”, making sure their first name covers the bottom section of the poster.

Now what was left was adding their bounties, and I personally (in some cases) don’t like to use the same font when adding smaller text, so for their bounties, as well as the “Dead Or Alive” message, I also had my friends and family take a vote on some other fonts I had, and I finalized on the font “Crimson Dawn”. Because these are wanted posters, I wanted them to have a little bit of a western feeling to it, like those old fashioned posters we see in western movies, and luckily the style this font had paired really well with Shinzoku as well as what I had pictured in my head; and of course I couldn’t type the bounty symbol, so I used a small image of the symbol to finish it off.