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Draw Your Own Alphabets: Thirty Fonts to Scribble, Sketch, and Make Your Own

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There are many ways to make your writing feel more personal, but none carries the charge of using a custom-drawn font. Draw Your Own Alphabets is a fun, hands-on workbook that teaches how to create funky hand-lettered fonts sure to jump off the page, poster, or screen. Presenting thirty complete alphabets, custom-drawn in a variety of styles by various young designers and illustrators, this do-it-yourself guide demonstrates how to adapt the letters and make them your own. Whether you dip in and out of your favorite lettering styles, or work through the book practicing various alphabets, you'll be creating your own fonts in no time. A technical section shows how to put your hand-drawn creations to practice—from transferring letters to a computer and using them online to mixing and matching different alphabets.

Language: English

Pages: 160

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press

Release: April 09, 2013

ISBN: 1616891262

ISBN 13: 9781616891268

Draw Your Own Alphabets: Thirty Fonts to Scribble, Sketch, and Make Your Own

4/5 ( ratings)

There are many ways to make your writing feel more personal, but none carries the charge of using a custom-drawn font. Draw Your Own Alphabets is a fun, hands-on workbook that teaches how to create funky hand-lettered fonts sure to jump off the page, poster, or screen. Presenting thirty complete alphabets, custom-drawn in a variety of styles by various young designers and illustrators, this do-it-yourself guide demonstrates how to adapt the letters and make them your own. Whether you dip in and out of your favorite lettering styles, or work through the book practicing various alphabets, you'll be creating your own fonts in no time. A technical section shows how to put your hand-drawn creations to practice—from transferring letters to a computer and using them online to mixing and matching different alphabets.

Language: English

Pages: 160

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press

Release: April 09, 2013

ISBN: 1616891262

ISBN 13: 9781616891268

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