Lettering is one of the most fashionable crafts, arts or practices. Recovering handwriting, and turning it into an art, has made many pay attention to it, not only individuals, but also freelancers, companies, etc. to apply it in their products, in advertising, and in other areas. But what if we don't have practice with it? Are there free templates for lettering?
If you are looking for some templates for your designs, or simply to work with them, here is a list of the ones we have found.
What is lettering
First of all we want to clarify what lettering is so that you don't have any doubts about it. It is an art that consists of drawing letters and words. That is, what you do is write the words but in a certain way that makes them, in themselves, look like drawings.
Within the lettering you have two ways to do it:
- Brush lettering, which is to draw them with a brush.
- Chalk lettering, where you draw them with chalk (white or colored).
However, the most common is that these are drawn with markers, crayons, pencils, etc. In fact, you can find many special pens and markers for this technique (because in some cases you will require a fine tip and a thick tip for the different strokes).
Why use lettering templates
When you are starting out in lettering, creating from scratch can be too complicated. For this reason, when using templates, you not only know what the keys are to make letters, but also how the strokes should be, how they look better in the letters, numbers, etc. when you create short sentences, long sentences, etc.
As you have more experience you will be able to do it without the need for templates. But these are like a first step to strengthen everything.
What do you need to do lettering
In addition to the free templates for lettering, you need to have a few more things to be able to practice this art in the best possible way. And you need? The next:
- Calligraphic markers. They are the best because they are very practical. You have them in small format and with different types of tip, from soft, hard and a two for one (these are the best); or large format, where you will find more colors and with a uniform tip. For beginners the latter may be better.
- Paper. Actually, you can draw anywhere, but the truth is that if you get a specific paper, due to its durability and resistance, that is not rough, much better because the results will be more professional.
- Pencil. Well yes, especially when you start lettering because it will help you draw, erase and correct without having to throw away the paper because you made a mistake or it didn't go well. Then you can go over it with the marker. But once you are satisfied with the result you have achieved.
- Rule or fake. They are basically used to write the letters without them going up or down; that are parallel and on the same line.
The best free lettering templates
Since we know that what you are really looking for are free lettering templates, we are not going to make you wait any longer. Here are some of the many that you can find on the Internet and that we have gathered in this article.
Free Alphabet Template
If you are looking for an alphabet template, then this Fudenosuke is the one that can serve you best. In it you will have all the letters.
Well, not all of them, because it doesn't have the 'ñ'. But surely you can use the n to make it and then create a tilde (that's what the thing on top is called).
You can find it here.
Lettering template for months and days
Also from Fudenosuke, you have the template for the months and days, so that you can fill it in, for example, if you want to do it for a menu or for something that needs to be changed every day (so you don't have to think about how to write it every day) .
Of course, the months come in English. So if you want them in Spanish you could follow the same design, but changing the letters.
You have the template of months here.
and the days here.
More Alphabet Lettering Templates
If you don't like the previous alphabet, you can try these others, both uppercase and lowercase. They are similar to the previous ones, but at the same time somewhat different.
You have it here.
To get started in lettering
Do you remember when you began to write that they put you to make straight lines? First vertically, then horizontally, then zigzag… Well, something similar happens with lettering. One of the basic templates consists of learning to make different strokes. And it is the template that we leave you below.
You can download it from here.
In this case we are not going to show you just a lettering notebook, but many options where you can find templates for almost everything.
We have found this pine but you can search because surely you will get some more.
Template to improve the spaces between letters
We liked this calligraphy template a lot because it makes us see how important spaces between letters are, first, so that they are understood and, second, so that everything looks beautiful.
So this template will help you achieve it. you can get it here.
For upper case serif
If you don't like too much that the letters have many curves and lines that hinder their understanding, but you do want them to look handmade, then this template can come in handy.
It teaches you how to make Serif letters, with a thick and clean line.
You have it here.
More examples of exercises with letters
In this case, uppercase and lowercase. The only thing that the web can scare you because it is as if you made a purchase but in reality, if you look closely, the cost of the template is zero, so you have no problem.
You download it here.
victorian lettering template
This has seemed very curious and striking, in addition to the fact that we have not seen it elsewhere. It consists of the letters of the alphabet in capital letters and drawn in a certain way that they seem to be from the Victorian era.
They are not available in lower case, and the 'ñ' would also be missing, but otherwise they can be curious for some projects or businesses.
The downloads here.
As you can see, there are many options to choose from. But, in addition, you have many lettering books that can be interesting and that will help you by giving you ideas and inspiration to achieve the goal you are looking for: a word, poster or phrase that stands out above all the others. Do you recommend more free templates for lettering?