12 Playful Hand-Lettering Styles. Learn and create twelve fabulous hand-lettering styles throughout the year!
Learn 12 Playful Hand-Lettering Styles
As a lettering artist, creating new lettering styles is one of my favorite things. I just finished submitting the content for my third book with Better Day Books (an imprint of Schiffer Books), and part of that included creating over twenty new styles.
I decided it would be fun to focus on teaching how to create new styles this year! Here’s an overview of how it will work.
How to Learn and Create Along with Me
I’ve planned out all twelve styles for the year. One new style every month!
- The Monthly Lettering Challenges: In my monthly newsletters, I’ll provide an overview of the style and challenge you to create a complete alphabet based on a single letter. You’ll also receive a free mini-workbook to download. This is a fabulous way to grow your lettering skills and an arsenal of styles if you’re already into lettering or a newbie up for the challenge.
- Trace-to-Learn Lettering: I’ll create an entire alphabet in the style and offer it as an affordable $10 workbook in my shop. The workbook will include a printable PDF and optional Procreate-format worksheets. Sign up for my newsletter to get it for just $5 each month. I’ll send a 24-hour 50% off coupon code within the newsletter. This is perfect for those new to lettering or who prefer the low stress of a trace-to-learn style challenge. A copy of the challenge from the newsletter is included in case you missed that month’s email.
- Video Tutorials: A free video tutorial will be shared on my YouTube channel each month, and a sample letter will be demonstrated in that style.
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By the end of the year, you’ll have created twelve original hand-lettering styles you can use in your future projects.
7 Tips for Creating New Lettering Styles
First, get an excellent foundation for getting started by reading my top tips for creating new styles in this blog post.
Style Overview
Spoiler Alert! Here is a list of all twelve styles. As each new style is released, I’ll update this post with images and links, so I recommend bookmarking this page for easy access.
- January: Optimist – a Beveled Colorblock Serif
- February: Pinky Promise – a Maximalist San Serif Style
- March: Joie de Vivre – a Flowy Floral Calligraphic Style
- April: Rainy Day – a Flourished Old Style Serif with Teardrop Terminals
- May: Pixie Dust – a Playful and Sparkly Sans Serif
- June: Cover Girl – a versatile Magazine Ransom-note-inspired Mixed Lettering Style
- July: Plant Lady – a Whimsical, Leafy Serif Style
- August: Book Club – a Bookish-inspired Style
- September: Harvest Moon – a Monoline Serif featuring creatively stacked letters
- October: Skeleton Key – a Decorative Style inspired by bones and keys
- November: Everyday Magic – a fabulously fun Retro Script
- December: Apricity – an Elegant Script and Serif Mashup Style
Style No. 1: Optimist – A Beveled Colorblock Serif
Style No. 2: Pinky Promise – A Playful Decorative Display Style
A sneak peek is coming soon!
LEARN EVEN MORE LETTERING STYLES IN MY BOOKS!
In addition to learning a basic Sans Serif, Serif, and Script lettering style, you can learn all ten styles (shown below) in my book, The Art of Playful Lettering. It’s a great place to start if you’re new to lettering, want to develop your skills, or are still trying to define your style.
Book two, my Modern Folk Art Coloring Book, is now available. Although it’s a coloring book, the designs include plenty of fun lettering styles to inspire you!
My upcoming book (number three!) will have ten more seriously fun lettering styles when it hits shelves in the late Summer of 2025! It should be available for preorder sometime in February, so I’ll do a cover reveal and provide the link when it’s up on Amazon.
Happy Lettering!
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