Beautiful Hand Drawn Typography
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Beautiful and creative typography can come in a variety of different forms. Hand drawn typography can be an excellent source of inspiration for graphic designers and typography lovers. In this post we will feature 40 creations that use hand drawn type. Some have been created completely by hand. Others have been sketched and scanned into Photoshop or Illustrator. Another option is to use fonts that create a hand drawn effect.
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Beautiful Hand-Drawn Typography
Timotej Neonski
August 11th, 2009 3:53 pmAwesome post.
Nick Perez
August 11th, 2009 4:12 pmSo awesome.
Love the fresh typography
Mike
August 11th, 2009 4:36 pmI see this style a fair bit. But to my eye, many of these samples look like the kind of doodling I’d expect from a teenager in a school workbook during a particularly boring class. There are a few beautiful works in there, amongst a lot of noise. Many of the ones with multiple words are just a “mind-dump” of ideas, again reminding me of bad teenage poetry where ideas are just spewed out randomly without much cohesion.
Don’t get me wrong, I love hand-drawn typography, calligraphy especially, but there needs to be appropriateness in the application of this style. If you’re aiming for a teen audience with the “workbook doodle” style, then that’s perfectly fine. I find similar feelings with the scrapbook collage style. For a professional business though? I don’t feel it is as appropriate an image to be conveying.
Lauren
August 11th, 2009 5:03 pmThank you! I do not feel that these are amateurish or just random “mini-dump” pieces but if I had, I would share the opinion that they were nothing special. Quite the contrary, I think these are perfect examples of this playful and humble hand-drawn look that is quite fresh and stylish at the moment, as opposed to the tired and disingenuous fashion of computer graphics that “simulate” a hand-drawn look. Thank you, for this lovely collection!
Bert
August 11th, 2009 6:06 pmSome of these are fantastic, but I must say I’m really getting sick of the whole “exploding swirly fluorishes” thing.
Brett
August 11th, 2009 7:32 pmThe New York one and the Nice To Meet You one stood out to me. I enjoyed them all though!
Matt
August 11th, 2009 7:44 pmI believe you forgot one of the kings – Ray Fenwick
gr8pixel
August 11th, 2009 8:07 pmawesome typo.. wonder if someone could turn em all into real fonts! :)
Bill Snebold
August 11th, 2009 8:13 pmBeautiful! Thank you for posting these!
Nicolas
August 11th, 2009 9:39 pmThe House Industries font is just awesome!
Stoyan Delev
August 11th, 2009 10:31 pmBeautiful…
Tenshut
August 11th, 2009 10:44 pmThe french in Si Scott typo says : “our story will become legend, together we are invicible. Together its for life, here it’s…
You’ll never be alone, always faithfull”
Oliver Ruehl
August 11th, 2009 11:19 pmThis post is a tragedy for me!
Now that I spent hours on getting the CSS right on my site…
I’m thinking about doing everything again on paper and scan it ;-)
No seriously, amazing works!
Quakeulf
August 11th, 2009 11:23 pmLol, the last one, “OLD SCHOOL” is seriously old school. Almost like something I’d see on a desk in class back in the early 90′s when I was still young. :’3
Charleen
August 12th, 2009 12:29 amMike its just a post calm yourself down. Get on with some work.
Nathan
August 12th, 2009 1:55 amCharleen
You should work for the UN.
website design
August 12th, 2009 2:48 amhey gr8.
wish we’d have thought of that.
TaoGOGO
August 12th, 2009 3:56 amTaoGOGOhas read your article,it perfect, and i share it with my friends!
Micael Delgado
August 12th, 2009 4:49 amFor some jobs it’ll be very interesting.
Bandeira
August 12th, 2009 5:10 amWhat about Eduardo Recife from misprintedtype.com ??
Sivakumar
August 12th, 2009 5:10 amThese type of typo we can use it in banners I think so.
BongoBox
August 12th, 2009 5:29 amThere’s some awesome stuff here, and also (at least) one with a typo…
Been there myself, drawing myself giddy, when suddenly I realize “donkey” does indeed have an “n” in it.
heh
Nick Healy
August 12th, 2009 6:20 amnot sure how you can have a list about hand drawn type and not include Marian Bantjes
Just one example of a huge range of beautiful type.
Also check out Luca Barcellona and Chris Piasik
kittu k
August 12th, 2009 7:34 amWOWWWWW.. awesome man.. wd lov to learn typography.. looks soo cool..
Kittu k
Erik Kubitschek
August 12th, 2009 7:40 amNice compilation, love this stuff. (Good to see you have recovered from the Photoshop post lol.)
colin
August 12th, 2009 7:47 amI submit Aaron Horkey’s work for consideration. The guy is amazing. Check his Flight of the Conchords poster.
Not to mention the fact that he’s a ridiculous illustrator…
kittu k
August 12th, 2009 8:31 amWOWWWWW.. awesome man.. wd lov to learn typography.. looks soo cool..
Kittu k
Briana
August 12th, 2009 9:06 amRE Mike’s comment: I actually think most of these are much more sophisticated than “just a ‘mind-dump’ of ideas” reminiscent of “bad teenage poetry”. The styles are quite casual, if that’s what you’re referring to. But there are actually some well thought out layouts going on here, good use of color, and some nicely drawn typography. If this is what you expect of a teenager who’s bored in class then you must know some very talented kids!
Lucas Tadeu
August 12th, 2009 9:24 amWow, that’s a awsome collection =O
sayan mukherjee
August 12th, 2009 10:40 amlovely and new and fresh….thanks for sharing
Anthony Cruz
August 12th, 2009 11:04 amWow, thanks for including my work in this post. I would appreciate it if my piece was linked to my actual website and not my old deviantart page.
http://artbycruz.com/print/kanye-west/
Thanks!
Viviana
August 12th, 2009 5:34 pmI-N-S-P-I-R-A-D-O-R!
aR
August 13th, 2009 6:20 amThis awesome post prove that in this digital world hand are still more creative then mouse.
Thanks for this fabulous collection.
I made a post about this collection and add a link to this page at my blog.
Michael Z
August 13th, 2009 7:07 amGreat work! It is so encouraging to see a revival of hand drawn typography. Nothing beats picking up a pencil and actually DRAWING, away from a computer.
david
August 13th, 2009 8:03 pmTo be a term elitist, this is all lettering, technically, not typography: It’s like calling a photograph a painting just because they’re both images.
beedee15
August 26th, 2009 6:23 amfrankensteining ??? good idea
Liz
October 30th, 2009 6:41 amVery cool ideas, I always like seeing designs that merge drawing and type! No one can argue the importance of computers, and clean typography definitely has its place, but drawing by hand lends a certain personality you’ll never get from a machine.
Jen Mussari
March 22nd, 2010 3:49 pmThanks for including my work! I would also appreciate it if I was linked back to my actual website and not that goofy monicker I went under when I was 14 on DeviantArt… http://www.jenmussari.com
Christiane Rosenberger
March 23rd, 2010 2:28 amFixed! Thank you, Jen :-)
ely
May 18th, 2010 7:56 amnice
designer renji
June 17th, 2010 10:07 pmBeautiful…
Jesse Penico
July 14th, 2010 9:44 amI really appreciate you including me on a list with such amazing work and artists. The link to my portfolio is, unfortunately, not working. Could you link it again to here: http://www.behance.net/jpenico
Christiane Rosenberger
July 14th, 2010 2:01 pmFixed! Thank you, Jesse :-)
joshua
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Matt BK
September 22nd, 2011 7:34 pmIt’s too bad you’re linking to images on Tumblr instead of tracking down the original artists. Tacky.