Vintage Lettering Styles

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Vintage Lettering Styles – Description Preview
Introduction to Vintage Lettering Styles Preview
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Vintage Lettering Styles Handout
Lettering of the Silent Movie Era PDF
A Bit of History - Vintage Styles PDF
Eccentric Title Exemplars
Drawn Letterforms Demo Pages
Anatomy of a Letter (Terminology)
Abecedarian sentences (Pangrams)
Bibliography (Further Study)
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Materials List Preview
Paper Preview
Ink Preview
Dipping vs. Filling the Pen
Rulers & Triangles Preview
Adjusting the Speedball Nib
Lettering Terminology

About Vintage Lettering Styles Preview
A Bit of History Preview
Vintage Tools and Materials
Vintage Inks and Paints
Bonus: Patrick Smith – The Show Card Brush Preview

The Show Card Style
Letter Idiosyncrasies

Eccentric Title Introduction Preview
Basic Strokes
Stem Strokes: i, j, l, t
Round letter group: c, e, o
Stems and bowls: b, d, g, p, q
Arches letter group: f, h, m, n, r, u
Diagonal letter group: k, v, w, y, z
Double-stacked letters: a, g, s, &
Lowercase A–Z
Capitals A-Z
Alphabet Sentence

Drawn Letterforms - Introduction Preview
Drawn Letterforms: Idiosyncracies
Tools Before Speedball
Built-Up Strokes
A Unique Squatty-type Letter
Modern Decorative Caps
Freehand 2-Stroke (alphabet sentence)

Speedball: Talking Textbook
The Story of Speedball (Presentation)