Lettering Composition
Letter Spacing in Hand Lettering: How to Space Letters and Words
Learn to space letters by the look of the white space instead of by distance, handle awkward pairs such as A, T and V, and set word and line spacing.
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Lettering Practice
How to Make Your Own Lettering Practice Sheets
Rule one master guide sheet by hand, ink it dark and slide it under thin paper, so you get reusable practice pages sized for your own pen and style.
Lettering Practice
Consistent Lettering: How to Keep Size, Slant and Weight Even
Find out why a word looks uneven when the letters look fine, and fix it by checking four things: height, slant, stroke weight and shared letter shapes.
Lettering Practice
A 15-Minute Daily Lettering Practice Routine for Beginners
A simple 15-minute session plan for busy beginners: warm-up strokes, one letter group, one word and a short review, plus a weekly rotation of focus.
Lettering Practice
Lettering Practice Drills: 10 Warm-Up Exercises for Steady Lines
Ten simple warm-up drills, from parallel downstrokes to rows of the word minimum, with what each one trains, how many rows to do and what to check.
Lettering Styles
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
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.
Lettering Styles
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.
Lettering Styles
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.
Lettering Styles
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.
Beginner Lettering
How to Draw a Simple Hand Lettering Alphabet of Your Own
Build a plain lowercase alphabet from basic strokes by sorting the 26 letters into five shape families, drawing one family per row, and then changing one rule at a time to make it your own.
Beginner Lettering
Hand Lettering Mistakes: 10 Beginner Problems and How to Fix Them
Ten common beginner lettering problems, from drifting words to shaky lines and uneven gaps, each with its likely cause and one concrete fix to try on your next practice page.