Lettering Lessons 2018: Creative Geometric Hand Lettering

Debi Adams guides you back to basic lines and shapes in Lettering Lessons: Creative Geometric Lettering. If you think that basic means boring, you’re all wrong. Debi presents a plethora of hand lettering ideas for transforming simple shapes into unique and artful letters. You will not be disappointed.

hand lettering: Creative Geometric Lettering

Debi shows so many creative ways to build and alter letters, I chose a few of her lettering styles to try to give you a taste of her fun techniques.

This is a great hand-lettering technique if you’re short on space or just want to illustrate a word, like hug. The letters are drawn so they overlap, which was especially effective for a word like hug.

This hand-lettering technique is a great way to fit letters in small spaces.
This hand-lettering technique is a great way to fit letters in small spaces.

Word Play

Using rectangles for the tall letters (one of the many geometric shapes available) and making them look like rulers adds a fun twist. Debi’s triangle-shaped A fits right in. Including the word “stand’ in cursive carries the message without taking away from the focal word.

Geometric shapes are easily transformed into letters when hand lettering.
Geometric shapes are easily transformed into letters when hand lettering.

Corral the Letters

Use the geometric shape to enclose letters. Look how “joy” pops when surrounded by colorful shapes.

Hand lettering offers plenty of opportunities for embellishment, and what better way than a pop of color?
Hand lettering offers plenty of opportunities for embellishment, and what better way than a pop of color?

Use Simple Shapes

Use lines and angles in a variety of ways to create one-of-a-kind lettering. Such a small word, but it has such personality when shapes are used to transform it.

It’s fun to combine different hand-lettering techniques to create letters that are truly your own.
It’s fun to combine different hand-lettering techniques to create letters that are truly your own.

Decorate Inside the Letters

Geometric shapes form the letters, and a variety of hand-drawn designs take the style up a notch. Color is a star player here, too, but it’s the simple shapes that steal the show.

If you love to doodle, hand lettering offers plenty of opportunities for showing off your style.
If you love to doodle, hand lettering offers plenty of opportunities for showing off your style.

Get in Shape!

Let a drawn shape determine the way the letters are formed. Hand lettering takes on a whole new look when captured inside a focal shape. If you thought the letters within a word had to be the same size to make sense, think again. Here, an apple and a star take center stage, and look how cool they look.

Simple drawings come to life by adding the words that name them.
Simple drawings come to life by adding the words that name them.

Try Hand Lettering Yourself

Use Debi’s inspired techniques in Creative Geometric Lettering to transform your hand lettering and create a unique and artful alphabet. If you love lettering like I do, check out the 2016–2017 Collector’s Edition, where you’ll find a lots of creative ways to have hand-lettering fun.


Try more hand lettering techniques with these resources!

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Art Journaling and Lettering, Blog, Mixed-Media Techniques

About Tammy Jones

I'm the online editor of Interweave Jewelry and Cloth Paper Scissors. I love making metal and metal clay jewelry, enameling, mixed media, and collecting and creating with found objects. I also enjoy knitting, paper crafts like card making and scrapbooking, cooking, traveling, beachcombing, and snow!

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