Hand Lettering A to Z: A World of Creative Ideas for Drawing and Designing Alphabets

✍ Scribed by Abbey Sy

• Publisher: Rockport Publishers
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 131
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Make your ABCs more FUN with Hand Lettering A to Z.

Along with the popularity of journaling, paper crafting, book crafting, and making personalized gifts and cards, comes a renewed appreciation for hand lettering.

Hand Lettering A to Z is a fun, hands-on, write-in book, in which artist and calligrapher Abbey Sy presents her creative lettering and invites artists from several countries to contribute alphabets of their own designs: all unique, all hand drawn.

Each alphabet will be paired with a collection of phrases to show readers different ways to use the lettering and to have fun with an international variety of ways to turn the phrase. Readers can use the phrases when making cards, gifts, Valentines, or embellishing their journals.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Half Title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
CONTENTS......Page 7
Introduction......Page 9
The Basics......Page 10
Paper......Page 11
Pens, Pencils, Brushes, and Paint......Page 12
Finding and Filtering Ideas......Page 13
SERIF......Page 14
SCRIPT......Page 15
LETTER EVOLUTION......Page 16
Swash Serifs......Page 19
Lazy Serifs......Page 25
Bone Type......Page 31
Woodpecker by Guest Artist João Neves......Page 37
Midwestr by Guest Artist Lisa Lorek......Page 43
Condensed Capitals......Page 49
Inline and Outline......Page 55
Nature Story......Page 61
Bubble Letters with Gradients by Guest Artist Googly Gooeys......Page 69
Freehand Brush Script......Page 77
Lined Script......Page 83
Retro Script......Page 89
Swish & Flick by Guest Artist Meagan Hyland......Page 95
EMBELLISHMENTS......Page 100
Custom Artwork......Page 102
Art Journal......Page 106
Notebook Cover......Page 108
GALLERY SHOWCASE......Page 111
Abbey Sy......Page 113
João Neves......Page 116
Lisa Lorek......Page 120
Acknowledgments......Page 127
Index......Page 128
About the Author......Page 130