Draw Your Own Fonts: 30 alphabets to scribble, sketch, and make your own!

I’m sure some will live but not what I was expecting.

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This was a really fun book. It gets your creative juices flowing to see just what ideas come your way. I really liked all the options and ideas the author had and it helped direct me to use it or to tweak it just a bit to be what I was looking for. He covers a great span of fonts and I really liked the diversity in it. Whether I was looking for slim or chunky, it’s all in there. Check it out for yourself with the links below.I received a copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.

In the day of digital EVERYTHING, even basic handwriting has gone out the window. While people used to handwrite letters on a regular basis, or journal, we've all now turned digital, with e-mails becoming the new mode of constant communication and blogging becoming the common format of journalling. For those of us still clinging to the "old" style of letter writing, a book like this becomes a fun tool in uniqueness, offering up 30 different alphabets to scribble (including, but definitely not limited to, "Buildings", where each letter resembles a skyscraper, "Slime", where each letter makes you think of things that go bump in the night, and "Spaghetti Junction", where---you guessed it---each letter looks like it was formed out of a pile of spaghetti...). The book offers practice pages after each alphabet, as well.In addition to being able to use all of these elements for handwriting your own fonts, though, the book also is useful to those who are all about the digital, as it offers lessons on how to digitize your own fonts once you've created them. In other words, there's a little something for everyone in this book.

The fonts in this book are absolutely gorgeous. They look like knitting, or spaghetti, or folded paper, or octopi curving and twisting to form legible words....but the book itself isn't what I was hoping for based on its description. There's no real instruction here, just space to try it yourself. For someone who plans to digitize a font they've designed, the technical information is probably useful. But it's not the book for me. I just want to learn to write pretty words on my kitchen chalkboard. (Disclosure -- I was provided with an electronic review copy by the publisher.)

Thank you to Net Galley and the publisher for the chance to read this book. The following is my honest review.This book has good information about drawing your own letter sets and even instructions on how to digitize them for use as a font on your computer. There are thirty different example fonts and space by each one to practice drawing it yourself. The end of the book has more grids to continue practice or to try designing your own.I personally drew 5 different letter sets in this book into my sketchbook and had a lot of fun! I think this book would be great not just for beginner designers, but for use in art projects, planners, journals or old fashioned letter writing to send in the post!

Interesting read for anyone wanting to jump into making and selling Fonts. It appears to be a good starting point for designing your own by learning the basics and from others' successful sales. Many people are making money with this skill set. I requested this ARC from NetGalley as I have purchased quite a few and wondered if I would be able to make my own. It was interesting and informative.

I went through the book today to learn that there are some interesting fonts out there. I think, I can create my own.