Society of Visual Storytelling

    SVSLearn Forums

    • Register
    • Login
    • Search
    • Recent
    • Tags
    • Popular
    • Users
    • Groups
    • Search

    What are your favourite hand lettering/typography resources?

    General Discussion
    12
    18
    1047
    Loading More Posts
    • Oldest to Newest
    • Newest to Oldest
    • Most Votes
    Reply
    • Reply as topic
    Log in to reply
    This topic has been deleted. Only users with topic management privileges can see it.
    • burvantill
      burvantill Moderator @braden H last edited by

      @Braden-Hallett I just look up fonts on Pinterest and copy them freehand... is this wrong? 😂😬

      Lisa Burvant
      www.lisaburvant.com
      Instagram & Twitter & SVS: @burvantill

      braden H 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 1
      • braden H
        braden H @burvantill last edited by

        @burvantill said in What are your favourite hand lettering/typography resources?:

        @Braden-Hallett I just look up fonts on Pinterest and copy them freehand... is this wrong? 😂😬

        and you should feel shaaaaaaaaaaaaaaame though that's exactly what I may do, too 😃

        burvantill 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
        • burvantill
          burvantill Moderator @braden H last edited by

          @Braden-Hallett 😂😂😂

          Lisa Burvant
          www.lisaburvant.com
          Instagram & Twitter & SVS: @burvantill

          1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 1
          • Fay
            Fay last edited by Fay

            ‘The Big Awesome Book of Hand & Chalk Lettering’ & learning a form of calligraphy. A more relaxed form of calligraphy I found useful is ‘The art of Brush Lettering’.

            1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 1
            • braden H
              braden H last edited by

              I found a couple of neat resources!

              There's a blog where someone did a 30 day challenge. My plan is to replace my morning line practice with this kind of thing 🙂

              http://creativlei.com/2015/31days-to-loveyourlettering/

              Also, lettering worksheets! Relive grade one!

              https://www.tombowusa.com/tips-techniques-projects/lettering-worksheets.html

              1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 1
              • braden H
                braden H @jakecrowe last edited by

                @jakecrowe said in What are your favourite hand lettering/typography resources?:

                This is my Bible for Hand Lettering:

                Hand-Lettering Ledger: A Practical Guide to Creating Serif, Script, Illustrated, Ornate, and Other Totally Original Hand-Drawn Styles

                Mary-Kate McDevitt is an excellent letterer and their Instagram is a great follow.

                I checked out the book and I hear about 2/3 of it is worksheets. However, the author has some pocket guidebooks as digital downloads on her website! The pocket guidebook to lettering was great to start me on my way and I maaaaaaay buy the others

                jakecrowe 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                • jakecrowe
                  jakecrowe @braden H last edited by

                  @Braden-Hallett that’s true a large chunk of it is. I actually left my copy in my office which I unfortunately will never return to and has probably ended up in a bin labeled “creative department” that will never be seen again. I did find myself revisiting it regularly when I was in the office though! I’ll check out her downloads.

                  jakecrowe.com

                  1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 1
                  • M
                    MarksByMallory last edited by

                    Hi! I've been into calligraphy for a long time, and I get a lot of lettering ideas that way. You might check out this book: The Calligrapher's Bible. It's like a library of different calligraphy hands through history. I look through it for ideas when I want to change up shapes and proportions, or make a design that looks like a particular time period.

                    However, it sticks mainly to traditional lettering and is somewhat basic, so it won't have much to help you with really modern hands or "funkyness". It also doesn't have a lot of instruction if you want to learn calligraphy. But it's a good place to start if you're looking for a base alphabet design.

                    Calligraphy does a really good job teaching the STRUCTURE of letters and spacing and design--just like the basic shapes teach the structure of drawing. It's tough to learn a calligraphy hand really well, but if you learn one or two I really think that carries through all later lettering and design work. Seems to help develop a sense of how to toe the line between legibility and inventiveness.

                    Hope that helps! 🙂

                    1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                    • Enholm Molly
                      Enholm Molly last edited by

                      I picked the Ultimate Guide lettering since it is less expensive than other lettering books on the market. Furthermore, its lovely cover features a quality matte finish. When compared to other books, it delivers the same quality features and information at a lesser cost.

                      Furthermore, it has a wealth of valuable information, as well as ample practice sheets for each letter of the alphabet. Surprisingly, the author even describes the types of pens that will perform best and the fonts that will be used.

                      1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                      • Cayetano Valenzuela
                        Cayetano Valenzuela last edited by

                        The ABC's of hand lettering by Ivan Castro covers the basics of handlettering both structure and style. Is a beautiful book with some really great examples and step by step instruction. Also I had some of my hand painted signs featured in a new book all about
                        handletter that has just been published by a pal of mine. She is a professor at SU and the book is called "Drawn to Type, Lettering for Illustrators" by Marty Blake. Its filled with examples of illustrated lettering in all sorts of capacities as well as tips and tricks to think about when lettering.

                        1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 1
                        • First post
                          Last post