Not only teaches a full course in professional lettering but contains 85 hand-lettered alphabets. The author discusses such fundamentals as correct pencil grip and how to condense lettering, work with brushes, and more. Many lettering styles including Garamond, Caslon, Bodoni, Formal Script, Barnum, ... read more
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Not only teaches a full course in professional lettering but contains 85 hand-lettered alphabets. The author discusses such fundamentals as correct pencil grip and how to condense lettering, work with brushes, and more. Many lettering styles including Garamond, Caslon, Bodoni, Formal Script, Barnum, and more.
Unaltered, unabridged reprint of original edition of Lettering, Halcyon House, 1946.
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