Lettering With Purpose

Lettering With Purpose is filled with creative techniques and prompts for making meaningful, inspirational hand-lettered art. It's a beautiful, thoughtful book for anyone interested in developing their own artistic alphabet.

Whether you’re hoping to personalize greeting cards or just enjoy the art, hand lettering is an uplifting and compelling craft to learn. Aspiring artists and lettering enthusiasts will explore and deepen their understanding of this art form by delving into a variety of lettering techniques. And throughout the book, you'll find 100 reflective lettering prompts to spur the imagination and help you answer the question: "What should I write?"

You'll begin with lettering basics. Learn about suggested tools and materials, the anatomy of letters, and how to pair different lettering styles. With the help of tutorials, you’ll be creating striking layouts and compositions in no time.

Additionally, artists will find a wide range of lettering styles and techniques demonstrated step by step, including brush calligraphy, bounce lettering, and more. The book also includes complete alphabet ideas with reproducible practice pages — use them to perfect your skills!

Once your artistic bones are there, move on to adding embellishments and flourishes. Add pizzazz to your work with frames, laurels and garlands, flowers, swirls, and more. To cap it all off, a section of perforated pages at the back of the book contains fully illustrated frames. Fill in the blank openings with your own inspired lettered designs.

Author — Brittany Luiz.

Paperback. 144 pages. 8-3/4" × 11-3/4" (22 cm × 30 cm).