{"id":47372,"date":"2017-09-07T07:10:38","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T14:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/creativemarket.com\/blog\/?p=47372"},"modified":"2024-04-16T06:56:00","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T13:56:00","slug":"faux-lettering-tutorials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/creativemarket.com\/blog\/faux-lettering-tutorials","title":{"rendered":"How to Get Started With Faux Lettering: 20 Easy Tutorials"},"content":{"rendered":"Faux lettering<\/strong>

is the art and science of simulating actual lettering by tweaking existing fonts. It shouldn’t be confused with faux calligraphy though you’ll get a bunch of faux-calligraphy results when you search for faux lettering on Google.\nWhile faux calligraphy<\/a> is the beautiful and impressive art of creating glorious lettering or handwriting without<\/em> the use of a dip pen—you can use any<\/em> sort of standard writing instrument to learn how to master faux lettering—faux lettering involves improving or changing existing digital typography to attain a hand-lettered look.\nApplying this lettering treatment to ordinary fonts is a spectacular approach to grabbing extra attention from your audience, leads, and customers. Now, your typography—on your product packaging, badge, logo or website hero image—will look memorable and very aesthetic. The increased freedom of turning your digital fonts into something that closely resembles hand lettering enables designers and other creatives to experiment and have fun with this great art form while also creating stellar designs that captivate.\nGetting started with faux lettering is as easy as reading or watching an accessible and informative tutorial, of which there are many on the web. To save you the trouble, we’ve rounded up the 20 best tutorials, so that you can be on your way in no time to creating faux calligraphy.\n<\/p>

<\/span>LetterCraft Demo<\/a><\/span><\/h2>

\nThis faux lettering tutorial about the LetterCraft – Hand Lettering Kit<\/a> is an easy-to-follow video that gets straight to the point. LetterCraft allows designers to make handmade typographic quotes that can be splashed right onto images for use on Instagram, Dribble, your portfolio, or client work.\n

<\/figure>\n \nLearn how to paste your work right into Adobe Photoshop’s smart folder to begin creating your design in the program. You’re shown how to add an image to the photograph folder, change the type’s color, incorporate a vignette, select from various textures, add some background textures with the free brushes, and adjust the image to make the hand lettering stand out on top of the image.\n