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

by Tony Seddon

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.

Genres: Art, Crafts

160 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2013

Reviews

[DelAnne Frazee · Rating 5 out of 5]

Title: Draw Your Own Fonts 30 alphabets to scribble, sketch, and make your own!
Author: Tony Seddon
Publisher: Quatro Publishing
Published: 9-15-2017
Pages: 160
Genre: How To
Sub-Genre: Arts and Photography, Crafts & Hobbies, Drawing, Typography, Graphic Design
ISBN: 9781782404972
Reviewed For NetGalley & Quatro Publishing
Reviewer: DelAnne
Rating: 4.5 Stars


How many times have you been looking for the perfect font to go with a letter, announcement , document or presentation and found one that was close, but not quite what you were looking for. Now you can fake that font and tweak it to make it exactly what you want. Want to share secret messages with that best friend or group, but want to be sure no one else can read it. Then share a font between you composed of pictures instead of letters. Tony Seddon shows you how step by step.


I admit it took a couple of reads and a lot of scrunched up paper, but it is fun once you learn how. Give it a try the possibilities are endless.


My rating of "Draw Your Own Fonts 30 alphabets to scribble, sketch, and make your own!" is 4.5 out of 5 stars.


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[Elaine Bearden · Rating 4 out of 5]

adult/teen/children

Pretty neat examples of different fonts you can draw. Could be fun to do a program just on the shape of words and what that conveys for graphic novels or hybrid novels.

[Katie Smith · Rating 4 out of 5]

I lvoe the fonts in this book.