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Sans Serif Hand Lettering: Clean, Simple Letters for Beginners
Draw clean sans serif capitals from three simple shape families, keep their widths related, and vary the result as light, bold, condensed or wide-spaced letters.
Lettering Styles
Beginner-friendly styles explained step by step: monoline, faux calligraphy, block letters, and serif and sans serif styles.
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Serif Lettering by Hand: How to Add Serifs to Your Letters
What a serif is, four serif shapes a beginner can draw, and a layered method for serif-inspired capitals: skeleton letters, thickened downstrokes, then serifs of equal length at the stem ends.
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Block Lettering: How to Draw Bold Block Letters Step by Step
Draw bold block capitals by building an even band around thin skeleton letters. Covers a paper-strip gauge for equal stroke thickness, round letters, tricky diagonals, inking and simple fills.
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Faux Calligraphy: How to Fake Brush Lettering With Any Pen
A three-step method for getting thick-and-thin letters from an ordinary pen: write the word, add a second line beside every downstroke, then fill it in. Includes how to find downstrokes and keep widths even.
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Monoline Lettering: A Beginner’s Guide to Even-Weight Letters
What monoline means, which ordinary pens produce it, how to keep an even line steady, and how to draw a monoline print style, a simple connected script and a few easy variations.