Type and Lettering
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Make Time for Script Lettering
There’s still time to join us for our Freestyle Script Lettering workshop this Saturday, September 19—but registration is closing soon! If you’ve been meaning to give casual cursive a try, this is your chance to get in on the live session....
An Alternative Look at Letterforms
Letters aren’t always as simple as they seem. Many familiar cursive forms actually have different ways of being constructed, whether they’re shaped by common practice or just personal taste. In fact, there are often several perfectly good w...
The Need for (Lettering) Speed
Some script lettering looks controlled and deliberate, while other pieces seem to fly across the page. So what makes the difference? One thing that gives cursive its dynamic character is the impression of speed. Free-flowing script letterin...
Don’t Write Off Write-Outs
Not all casual script is as spontaneous as it looks. Lettering artists have long used a painstaking technique called write-outs to capture the freedom and natural flow of handwriting. Using skeletal forms to determine the letters’ size, spa...
A Script Lettering Classic
When I started getting into lettering, I grabbed every book I could find on the subject. One early find was a copy of Lettering and Alphabets by J. Albert Cavanagh, originally published as A Handbook on Lettering in 1939. Cavanagh was a let...
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