How to Write like an Architect

In a 2.5 minute video Kung Fu archi­tect Doug Patt demon­strates how to become a skilled let­terer. Actu­ally, he admits in all hon­esty that “hand let­ter­ing takes years of prac­tice to get good.” (Via raketenblog)

There are a number of architect-​style hand printed type­faces avail­able as dig­i­tal fonts, for exam­ple Blue­print, Enviro, Graphite, the all caps Kandt, ITC Stylus and the Adobe clas­sic Tekton. A real clas­sic is of course Frank Lloyd Wright’s Eaglefeather.

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Wasn’t Eagle­feather based on a design by Frank Lloyd Wright, not Charles Rennie Mack­in­tosh?

Posted by Keith Bell on Sep. 9, 2008

Darnit, you’re absolutely right. My mis­take; I was quickly jump­ing from link to link to add some dig­i­tal font ref­er­ences to Jürgen’s post and added the credit from the pre­vi­ous link I checked to the Eagle­feather link. Well spot­ted, and thanks for the cor­rec­tion! :)

Posted by Yves Peters on Sep. 9, 2008

I hope Jürgen isn’t mad at me for making him look bad due to my last minute addi­tions. :P

Posted by Yves Peters on Sep. 9, 2008

Unfor­tu­nately, the video is no longer avail­able … Would’ve loved to have seen Doug Patt in action.

Posted by Thomas Vanhuyse on Sep. 11, 2008

Thanks, moni. Embed­ding on that video isn’t allowed, so I’ve added the link to the arti­cle.

Posted by Stephen Coles on Sep. 11, 2008

Awe­some, thanks for that.

Posted by Thomas Vanhuyse on Sep. 11, 2008

anyone have the pdf avail­able? seems to be down, moved, van­ished. thanks!

Posted by sw on Sep. 12, 2008
Links do dia « Designlab referenced this article:

[…] de Comunicação e Tipografia: Orbe Cader­nos de Tipografia nº 11 Caligrafia de Arqui­tecto Jornal de Tipografia Urbana Dia­gra­mas e […]

Anyone know the link for the exer­cise sheet?
I couldn’t find it.
Thanks.

Posted by Alicia on Sep. 18, 2008

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