Learn Your Font Families
With These Hand Lettering Tips!
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When you first begin hand lettering, you might find yourself only ever doing beautiful cursive brush lettering. However, there are many other great fonts to try!
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Serif is a font that features small lines added to each letter. Those extra lines are called “serifs”. Serif fonts also tend to have a variation in line width.
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Sans serif fonts are fonts that do not feature the serif lines and usually have no variation in line thickness. This results in a more sleek and modern looking letter.
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The trademark signs of a script font is that the lines vary in thickness and the letters tend to connect to one another. You’ll also notice script fonts often slant one direction or the other — just like handwriting.
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Decorative fonts add a wacky, fun, and decorative twist to your lettering. Like the script family, decorative fonts are almost always used in titles or other large text, but never as the body font.
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Now that you've learned the difference between your font families, try playing around and lettering a word in each style!