This is great! I hadn’t tried this specific technique. I’m also going to ask my husband on occasion because his handwriting is terrible and may actually be perfect for certain quirky projects…
This was cool. For a book I designed, I chose to do the cover title text and all of the H1 headers hand drawn and it was worth it but yeah also wow what a lot of work.
Most of the headers I drew a few times to get the right feel but I also made a sheet where I wrote out the full alphabet with multiple takes on each letter that I could mix and match digitally.
I also really liked your point about preserving the texture of hand written text. You almost want more texture than you would assume since that’s what makes it feel real.
That’s a big commitment! I’m sure it looked great, though. I hand lettered episode graphics for a friends podcast and regretted it after a while. For his next show, I just did a font :)
Totally agree about texture—I think it might be the most important part.
I’m semi obsessed with black Stabilo All pencils since they are very high contrast and also just the right mix of waxy/oily that they have a lot of texture.
This is such an interesting process. Coming from someone with no formal design background and who used Calligraphr to turn my handwriting into a font, I’m curious to try a process like this for something in the future.
This is great! I hadn’t tried this specific technique. I’m also going to ask my husband on occasion because his handwriting is terrible and may actually be perfect for certain quirky projects…
That’s a great idea! I love covers with “bad” handwriting.
This is so smart! You could also play with different thicknesses and shapes of pens for more variety in letter shape.
Loved the video tutorial! Definitely putting that in my toolbox
This was cool. For a book I designed, I chose to do the cover title text and all of the H1 headers hand drawn and it was worth it but yeah also wow what a lot of work.
Most of the headers I drew a few times to get the right feel but I also made a sheet where I wrote out the full alphabet with multiple takes on each letter that I could mix and match digitally.
I also really liked your point about preserving the texture of hand written text. You almost want more texture than you would assume since that’s what makes it feel real.
Thanks, Davin.
That’s a big commitment! I’m sure it looked great, though. I hand lettered episode graphics for a friends podcast and regretted it after a while. For his next show, I just did a font :)
Totally agree about texture—I think it might be the most important part.
I’m semi obsessed with black Stabilo All pencils since they are very high contrast and also just the right mix of waxy/oily that they have a lot of texture.
I’ll have to check those out!
This is such an interesting process. Coming from someone with no formal design background and who used Calligraphr to turn my handwriting into a font, I’m curious to try a process like this for something in the future.