Hand Lettering Courses and Certifications

Lettering Layouts: Creating Beautiful Designs

In this class from our partners at Brit & Co., learn how to create a word collage in various lettering styles.

• Craftsy
• 38 minutes
• Self-Paced
• $38.00

Adobe

Food Lettering Animations in Adobe Fresco - Part 1

Create food-themed hand-lettered quote compositions in Adobe Fresco, refining custom lettering with vector and pixel brushes for animation.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 57 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Envato Tuts+

Mastering Script Lettering

Learn to create formal and informal script lettering through proper angles, smooth connections, thicks and thins, flourishing, and vectoring.

• YouTube
• 55 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Adobe

Creating Vintage-Inspired Southern Typography - Part 1

Learn a vintage-inspired lettering workflow for logo design, from sketching balanced letterforms and badge layouts to refining vectors in Adobe Fresco and Illustrator.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 57 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Calligrascape

How to Do Lettering with a Sharpie Tutorial - Uppercase Serif Full Alphabet

Learn to draw a complete uppercase serif alphabet with a Sharpie, then color it and apply it to “Joy to the World” and “Stranger Things.”

• YouTube
• 27 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Envato Tuts+

iPad Lettering Tutorial - Complete Procreate to Illustrator Workflow

Create custom hand lettering by sketching in Procreate, then tracing, refining, coloring, and exporting a vector design in Adobe Illustrator.

• YouTube
• 35 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Faux Real Calligraphy

2 ratings

Learn faux calligraphy through basic shapes, lowercase and uppercase alphabets, and numbers.

• YouTube
• 2 hours 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Design Cuts

Easy 3D Lettering – Isometric, One Point & Two Point Perspectives with ShoutBAM

Build 3D lettering in Procreate using isometric layouts, one-, two-, and three-point perspective, lighting, shading, and textures.

• YouTube
• 56 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Envato Tuts+

Creative Hand Lettering - Adobe Fresco Tutorial

Learn hand lettering with pro illustrator Chris Piascik using Adobe Fresco. Master sketching, refining, coloring, and texturing techniques to create stunning lettering designs on your iPad or preferred setup.

• YouTube
• 26 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Craft a Logo by Hand

247 ratings at CreativeLive

Learn to turn hand lettering drawn with pencil or Apple Pencil into a professional vector logo.

• CreativeLive
• 2 hours 28 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

28 to Make

53 ratings at CreativeLive

28 to Make with Kate Bingaman-Burt, Erik Marinovich, Ryan Putnam, Lara McCormick

• CreativeLive
• 1 hour 47 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Virtual Calligraphy (BYO Materials) (Team Building)

195 ratings at CourseHorse

Learn the art of modern brush lettering and create beautiful letterforms in this creative group calligraphy workshop.

• CourseHorse
• 2 hours
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Design Cuts

How to Vectorize Hand Lettering in Adobe Illustrator with Teela Cunningham

Learn to turn scanned hand lettering into infinitely scalable vector artwork in Adobe Illustrator.

• YouTube
• 54 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

School of Visual Arts Career Certificate

The Complete Typographer I

Understanding of typographic history and practice Understanding of and ability to demonstrate skills and techniques needed to create custom hand lettering Ability to create original typefaces using digital software

• Kadenze
• 84 hours
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Learn to Stitch Free-Motion Script

Learn how easy and satisfying it can be to write in beautiful cursive or script on the surface of your quilts.

• Craftsy
• 1 hour 12 minutes
• Self-Paced
• $39.00