These new-hipster popular hand-written/drawn fonts

[IntegrityShirts]

We've all seen them, they make motivational sentences less-annoying somehow, but still annoying.

[Dottonedan]

True font guru's will LOVE LOVE LOVE this type of work. They scoff at using regular fonts  and choke on the thought of no kerning with large spaces that you can drive a truck through.  In titles, they will often take a good unique font and create to outlines, and make each repeating letter (unique) by changing something to make it more obvious that they are individual and not just typed out but first, they look at "period" font styles to match the theme or feel of a design.


Design discussion should be another topic here for serious discussion. I can use some education in that area. Sometimes stuff I work hard at, for design usage, a true guru might scoff at. LOL.

[Sbrem]

I don't know about new, looks like 19th and early 20th century stuff to me. But cool, nonetheless.

Steve

[Command-Z]

It's probably hand-made. There's a huge resurgence of hand-lettering going on among the new breed of designers. Check out Matt Tapia's work.

http://matthewtapia.tumblr.com/

Everything from tight to slightly sloppy, that whole turn of the 19th-20th century-era sign aesthetic is big right now even in t-shirts... look at Abercrombie and the like with their classic logo styles.

[Frog]

I don't know about you guys, but I remember classes in lettering back in the day, as part of the curriculum . My last teacher had just designed the 1977 type iteration for Rolling Stone.

[tonypep]

Been using them on the Pastiche line for  7 ys or so.

[StuJohnston]

Yeah, I didn't have to do much in terms of class work with drawing type, but it was certainly encouraged. I am still working on it years after graduation.

The guy that I am looking at right now is Elliot Tupác. He is a Chicha artist from Peru that started in his father's sign business and has gone to painting  walls with messages, not unlike the inspirational stuff mentioned before. Here he is printing signs, check out the stencil method, http://youtu.be/GR0iDbPKr6Q I would direct you to his website, but this shows much more of his work, https://www.google.com/search?q=elliot+tupac&safe=on&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=sFkYVNOcBcSLjAKgooGYBg&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAQ&biw=1704&bih=995

[Command-Z]

My art training happened right before computers became commonplace. We learned all kinds of hand-lettering from single-stroke lettering to meticulous drafting of various alphabets. I never got really good at it, being more of an illustrator than scribe. I preferred Letraset.

Sign painting and pinstriping are coming back into vogue as well. This film looks interesting:

http://www.signpaintersfilm.com/#watch

[mimosatexas]

they will often take a good unique font and create to outlines, and make each repeating letter (unique) by changing something to make it more obvious that they are individual and not just typed out but first.

This is what I do for ANY design that is supposed to look hand-drawn.  I find a handdrawn font in the style I need, convert to object/path and edit the individual letters where necessary to give it an organic feel.  Takes very little time, everything is consistent in style, no scanning or on paper revisions, and you can tweak it forever without losing anything.

[StuJohnston]

My art training happened right before computers became commonplace. We learned all kinds of hand-lettering from single-stroke lettering to meticulous drafting of various alphabets. I never got really good at it, being more of an illustrator than scribe. I preferred Letraset.

Sign painting and pinstriping are coming back into vogue as well. This film looks interesting:

http://www.signpaintersfilm.com/#watch

I never knew that it was available streaming! Yesss!

[starchild]

Skillshare is a community whose focus is graphic communication in general, they provide video training in various topics. Here's a link to there available Hand Lettering workshops:
http://www.skillshare.com/classes/lettering

[Dottonedan]

Like Commandz, I had formal training for a required two semesters in hand letting. I was not thrilled with it, but if I had more "life experience" I guess, I might have given it more effort and maybe I'd of liked it more. I thought it was boring. I'm an illustrator, painter type guy.


Remember this? ugh! copy fitting. [size=78%]Don't forget the dreaded specking of type. 6 pts in a pica, 12 pt's in an inch ( think), oh, acenders, decenders, rivers and gutters etc.[/size]
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Before Macs, I worked in a digital painting program on a PC where we had to plot out our next pixel placement of color. LOL. When I graduated art school, I worked in a screen print poster shop for 6 months then took a screen print job printing on coffee mugs where they had the Mac2. NICE.  I've been hooked ever since.

[StinkyDaddy]

I had the same experience some of you have already mentioned. I started art school when we still did everything by hand. The typography class I had was taught by adjunct faculty, Michael Clark who was a calligrapher for Hallmark at the time (he was mentored by Herman Zapf). I think it was one of the most valuable classes I had because Michael gave us real world skills. Like how to erase rapidograph ink from Canson Vidalon vellum by slicing a thin layer of the inked vellum away. It was a tues/thurs studio class and we went to a bar and drank beer and talked about what we were working on with him after class. One of the key things I took away was the concept of making a word and/or phrase look like what you want it to say to communicate the idea. Yes we spent time learning the the anatomy of type, but becoming aware of how the way you arrange letters/words to communicate is something that I still use. Now I tend to create outlines and move things around to get what I want but sometimes I think I could draw and scan just as fast.