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    Hand-Lettered Home: DIY Wood Signs for Farmhouse Decor
    Hand-Lettered Home: DIY Wood Signs for Farmhouse Decor
    Hand-Lettered Home: DIY Wood Signs for Farmhouse Decor
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    Hand-Lettered Home: DIY Wood Signs for Farmhouse Decor

    By Caroline Bryan

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    You can create your own lettering art to personalize your wall decor and add modern farmhouse style to every area of your home. Even if you’re new to hand lettering, you’ll find it easier than you ever imagined with Caroline Bryan's Hand-Lettered Home.

    -Learn the art of hand lettering with 20 beautiful projects.
    -Get expert tips on the best lettering tools and techniques.
    -Practice pages make it simple to learn a variety of lettering styles.
    -Step-by-step instructions guide you to create gorgeous signs.
    -Nurture your creativity with design variations for every project.
    -Craft one-of-a-kind gifts for loved ones.

    You’ll treasure the meaning and memories hand-lettered signs capture for you and your family!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateJul 28, 2020
    ISBN9781250270658
    Hand-Lettered Home: DIY Wood Signs for Farmhouse Decor
    Author

    Caroline Bryan

    CAROLINE BRYAN is a former teacher and the owner of Caro Lettering, where she shares hand-lettered creations and gives instruction in hand lettering. She has crafted hundreds of hand-lettered signs for friends, family, customers, and her own Indianapolis home, where she lives with her husband and two daughters.

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      Book preview

      Hand-Lettered Home - Caroline Bryan

      1

      HAND LETTERING MADE SIMPLE

      GETTING STARTED
      FAUX CALLIGRAPHY
      BLOCK PRINT
      CAFE PRINT

      GETTING STARTED

      To create the gorgeous hand-lettered signs in this book or any signs you dream up, you will need to get to know three basic but highly customizable lettering styles: Faux Calligraphy, a beautiful script; Block Print, a versatile serif* print; and Cafe Print, a lighthearted sans serif print. With these three lettering styles in your toolbox, you will be able to mix and match to create unique signs for every occasion and room in your home!

      STEPS FOR THE BEST LETTERING

      1. PRACTICE BEFORE PAINTING. Use the practice pages that follow to learn how to build letters (capitals and lowercase) and numbers in the three lettering styles. The more you practice, the more natural the process will feel and the smoother your lettering will become. Need a refresher as you work on signs? These pages will be here for you to revisit.

      2. USE TOOLS WISELY. No matter how much you practice with these lettering pages, it’s only natural to find yourself in a whole new scenario when you go from paper to sign. Suddenly, you’ve lost your guides to make sure your lettering is even. Fortunately, some simple tools can come to the rescue.

      For beginners and experts at hand lettering alike, it’s a smart idea to create a baseline guide. This basic but super-helpful step keeps all letters the same height and avoids the natural downward slant when we write. A ruler or painter’s tape works well when writing Block or Cafe letters. Use a laser level guideline for Faux Calligraphy.

      Remember that when you’re ready to move your hand lettering onto a sign, chalk can be your best friend for creating lettering guides before you commit to paint.

      3. GO SLOWLY. Your grocery list might be hardly legible, but that doesn’t mean you can’t learn to hand letter! Take your time and be deliberate about forming each letter—whether you’re working on practice pages or have progressed to lettering on a sign. You’ll appreciate the results.

      *Wondering about serif versus sans serif lettering styles? A serif is a decorative line added to a letter’s stem. So serif fonts have those lines (sometimes called feet) while sans serif fonts don’t. (Sans means without in French.)

      FAUX CALLIGRAPHY

      Faux Calligraphy mimics the look of a calligraphy pen and nib, which allow a calligrapher to create different line weights depending on how much pressure is put on the pen. On the upstrokes of letters, the calligrapher uses hardly any pressure on the pen and the strokes are thin and light. However, on the downstrokes of letters, the calligrapher places pressure on the nib so more ink flows to the paper, creating a heavier line weight and a thick, dark stroke. In sign making, we mimic this look by going back over the letters to double the downstrokes with the paint pen. The upstrokes of letters are a single line of paint and look thin compared to the downstrokes of the letters, which are doubled and thicker. To vary the style, you can also stick with monoline Faux Calligraphy—simply a single line without doubled downstrokes.

      You will notice in the following pages that I also add extra weight at the beginning and end strokes of letters to create end caps. This style adds polish to large-scale lettering on a sign. Practice the end caps for each letter. When it is time to create words with the letters, simply drop the end caps where needed to connect

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