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Handlettering is a particularly beautiful art of writing. A handwriting with great attention to detail that you can use to beautifully create your own creative ideas such as paintings, greetings, chalkboard inscriptions, or other messages. Handlettering always looks stylistically different and creates a particularly creative and beautiful picture when combined with other scripts and styles. Handlettering is a modern form of calligraphy combined with typography, where pre-made block letters are used.
Handlettering can be defined as the handwritten design of letters. Individual words, quotes, or entire texts are artistically written and decorated in one's own script with various writing tools (pencil, fineliner, brush, chalk). Often, "lettering" is done in cursive. The letters are connected, giving the script an artistic look. To avoid overwhelming the eye with longer texts or quotes in the handlettering style, different script styles are often mixed. By combining block letters and cursive, uppercase and lowercase letters, italic and bold letters, varied and exciting word pictures are created. Handlettering often uses embellishments or artificial extensions for decoration. Ornaments, lines, and dots are also commonly used elements in handlettering.
Don’t worry: anyone can do handlettering. Of course, practice makes perfect, so in handlettering, it’s all about practice! Just like in school, alphabets and letters need to be practiced and often repeated to perfect the learned handlettering technique. For lettering beginners, books with instructions and templates are perfect for first attempts. Here you will learn which pens are best suited for which handlettering style, you will receive templates of lettering and different handlettering alphabets and grid templates for practice and experimentation. Besides the scripts, there are many beautiful ornaments and suggestions to make your handlettering project even more beautiful.
Whether it's a labeled chalkboard, an artistic picture, or a personal greeting card – handlettering can find a place anywhere. And what do you need for it? Depending on the project, a drawing surface (paper, chalkboard) and a drawing tool (pen, marker, chalk). And you’re ready to start!
Which pens do I need for handlettering?
For handlettering, you need different pens – although this is not a requirement. The pens can differ in color or the thickness of the tip. Using different handlettering pens makes it easy to create noticeable differences when writing and drawing the individual words. Since handlettering is considered an art, it is advisable to buy good pens intended for handlettering. This way, even more beautiful results are achieved. You can find a large selection of pens for handlettering in our online shop.
Many handlettering professionals swear by soft calligraphy pen tips, as these have the advantage of being very sensitive to pressure, allowing for a variety of gradients and stroke widths. These pens are called "brush pens" and combine the qualities of a felt-tip pen and a brush. Brush pens give you a lot of creative freedom and have the advantage over a brush that they write very high quality and do not need to be constantly reloaded with ink. The brush pen always has a consistent flow of ink.
