Draw Your Own Fonts /anglais - Softcover

SEDDON TONY

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1908005815 ISBN 13: 9781908005816

Publisher: IVY PRESS, 2013

Synopsis

Hand-drawn lettering has never been more popular, and every home designer is in on the act, creating energetic, quirky fonts that seem to jump off the screen, the poster or the page. To the uninitiated this free design can seem a little intimidating can anyone join in? Can you learn to draw appealing letters without having taken a graphic design course? Draw Your Own Fonts proves that the answer is a resounding yes. A lively mix of inspiration and workbook, it offers 30 complete alphabets, drawn in a variety of styles by an energetic line-up of young artists and illustrators, with tips and demonstrations on how you can copy or adapt them to make them your own. With sections on how to use your fonts online as well as on paper, this is a do-it-yourself book that will appeal to anyone who has ever begun a hand-lettered project (or simply doodled a highly decorated word or two on the cover of a notebook) then wondered why it didnt have the panache of professional work.

About this title

About the Author

Tony Seddon is a freelance writer and designer based in East Sussex, UK

Review

"Brings back fun into your old-fashioned writing. This 160-page book shows you many unique, very creative fonts you can learn to draw on your own. There are even special pages with grids for you to try your hand at duplicating the alphabets they show... I so appreciate that the font samples, which range from very simple to quite intricate, are large enough to really show you the detail. Plus each one has a clever name like Control Chaos, Knit, Skinny Fringe and Spaghetti Junction... whether you're like me and just want to keep hand lettering alive and learn creative new ways to do it, or you truly want to design your own original fonts for your work, this book will surely inspire you." -- Good Reads with Ronna

"Whether you have always been designing through hand-drawn illustrations or are a designer of the computer age, Draw Your Own Alphabets is a great place for you to expand your lettering techniques." -- Complex.com

"Takes the art of custom-drawn fonts-lively, hand-drawn letters often perfected by middle school adepts-to an extraordinary level of sophistication." -- Fine Books & Collections

"Fun and instructive, this book is part ode to handmade fonts, part workbook." -- HOW Design Magazine

Edition details

• Publisher: IVY PRESS
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1908005815
• ISBN 13: 9781908005816
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160