This was a really fun book. It gets your creative juices flowing to see just what ideas come your way. I really liked all the options and ideas the author had and it helped direct me to use it or to tweak it just a bit to be what I was looking for. He covers a great span of fonts and I really liked the diversity in it. Whether I was looking for slim or chunky, it’s all in there. Check it out for yourself with the links below.
I received a copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.

Draw your own fonts is a must-have for anyone who either wants to create their own fonts, or is just interested in them. It covers everything, from designing the fonts, practicing and transfering the fonts into your computers. There's enough space in the book itself to practice and I loved the little bits of trivia around the already existing fonts.

Tony Seddon discusses taking hand-lettering on paper and turning it into digital fonts. He provides suggestions and all the details about the necessary formatting. Great ideas to practice in an organized, clear format.

I recently started art journaling and need to word on my handwriting. This is my favorite among the books I've read on the topic. Although I received an ARC from NetGalley, I will purchase a copy for myself.

Interesting read for anyone wanting to jump into making and selling Fonts. It appears to be a good starting point for designing your own by learning the basics and from others' successful sales. Many people are making money with this skill set.
I requested this ARC from NetGalley as I have purchased quite a few and wondered if I would be able to make my own.
It was interesting and informative.

Thank you to Net Galley and the publisher for the chance to read this book. The following is my honest review.

This book has good information about drawing your own letter sets and even instructions on how to digitize them for use as a font on your computer. There are thirty different example fonts and space by each one to practice drawing it yourself. The end of the book has more grids to continue practice or to try designing your own.

I personally drew 5 different letter sets in this book into my sketchbook and had a lot of fun! I think this book would be great not just for beginner designers, but for use in art projects, planners, journals or old fashioned letter writing to send in the post!

This is a great book for anyone looking to try something new. Drawing has never been my strong suit so it was fun.

3.5 stars, rounded up to 4
I’ve been amateurishly interested in hand-written fonts since I made bloopy, ‘groovy’ letters during the late 60s. Tony Seddon takes my knowledge a few steps further.

Draw Your Own Fonts starts with a ‘lite’ 1-page history background of hand-writing to print to computers. With the current resurgence in crafts and hand-lettering, Seddon’s book gives concrete ways to start creating your own font. Seddon suggests practicing hard copying basic letter forms to gain a deeper understanding of their forms. Unless you are Really into this, I’m thinking most people would skip the basics. Why practice scales when you can play music? Because scales are in the music and promote good technique. Why bother with copying letters you’ve written since Kindergarten? Because they are basic to the next, creative step.

To develop your font, start by tracing over a font you like. Next, Seddon suggests customizing fonts by adding serifs, flourishes, and exaggerating some aspects of the letters. I wish he would have broken this down more and devoted a few pages to this. It would have been extremely helpful for beginners! (For example, basic font: now slant it. Now slant some of it. Now add some serifs, what about shading?) Specific examples would really have helped!

Seddon briefly analyzes 30 fonts in simple terms, describing key details that I probably would have missed and suggesting partner fonts. Practice graph paper is included after each font for the reader/ hand-writer to begin improvising. Fonts from 12 designers range from the frilly cupid, to knit letters, slime letters, building and topiary letters, and the wild and crazy spaghetti junction and hairy best fonts. My personal favorites were simpler: 7 o’clock shadow and blackout fun.

Draw Your Own Fonts closes with a brief 4-page discussion on computers and fonts, the anatomy of a font (this would have been way better at the beginning!) and a glossary. This is a good introduction for newbies like me and anyone interested in doing exactly what the title suggests, Draw Your Own Fonts, but please show us more about ways to improvise on suggested forms.

Thank you to NetGalley, the author and publisher for granting access to an arc of this book for an honest review.

Firstly, let me thanks the author and Netgalley for providing me a copy for free in exchange for an honest review.

I feel that words cannot express how much I LOVED THIS BOOK! It has everything I was looking for - A LOT OF DIFFERENT ALPHABETS TO LEARN HOW TO DRAW BY HAND! The book is absolutely beautiful, full of colours, very detailed and has plenty of space for you to practice drawing your own fonts following the examples provided by the author.

A MUST for all Arts lovers and people who love journaling like me!

Despite having read some other books about Creative handwritting, this book really impressed me!

This book is a fun guide to hand lettering. It has guides for drawing 30 different fonts as well as hints and tips for designing your own, as well as space for practising them all.

I liked the book as a guide and ideas to help me design my own fonts. The layout is neat, while the explanations are concise, I like how it is a compilation of all the good ideas from other designers as well.

a lot of good information that works! A nice collection to get started designing my own fonts

This was a solid beginner's guide. It is packed with a lot of information on designing your own fonts. This book has a ton of different examples as well -- 30 in all, each one wildly different from the last.. What I think sets it apart from the rest is all the information about taking your new fonts digital. Nice bridge between low and high tech there.

The fonts in this book are absolutely gorgeous. They look like knitting, or spaghetti, or folded paper, or octopi curving and twisting to form legible words....but the book itself isn't what I was hoping for based on its description. There's no real instruction here, just space to try it yourself. For someone who plans to digitize a font they've designed, the technical information is probably useful. I just want to learn to write pretty words on my kitchen chalkboard.

So dissapointed. I was expecting something more elaborate not so childish and for me, that's the problem.

In the day of digital EVERYTHING, even basic handwriting has gone out the window. While people used to handwrite letters on a regular basis, or journal, we've all now turned digital, with e-mails becoming the new mode of constant communication and blogging becoming the common format of journalling. For those of us still clinging to the "old" style of letter writing, a book like this becomes a fun tool in uniqueness, offering up 30 different alphabets to scribble (including, but definitely not limited to, "Buildings", where each letter resembles a skyscraper, "Slime", where each letter makes you think of things that go bump in the night, and "Spaghetti Junction", where---you guessed it---each letter looks like it was formed out of a pile of spaghetti...). The book offers practice pages after each alphabet, as well.

In addition to being able to use all of these elements for handwriting your own fonts, though, the book also is useful to those who are all about the digital, as it offers lessons on how to digitize your own fonts once you've created them. In other words, there's a little something for everyone in this book.

A great book to draw the fonts in various designs.........

Draw Your Own Fonts: 30 alphabets to scribble, sketch, and make your own! is a very approachable guide to hand-lettering, and designing your own unique fonts. This is suitable for complete beginners, and those who wish to learn more about hand lettering, and about fonts themselves.

As I am not an expert, I can not say whether or not this would aid an experienced letter artist, but as someone with interest in fonts, but no practical experience, I found it fun, understandable and achievable. Perfect for all ages, and a nice addition to public and school libraries.

Draw your own fonts is a fun book if you love handlettering or journaling and want to use special fonts.

It starts with the basics and then shows you lots of different fonts that you can practice with, like origami & spaghetti alphabets, knitted & octopus letters, slime & topiary fonts and more.

If you like handlettering and handwritten fonts, I think you’re definitely going to like Draw your own fonts. This little book is filled with inspiration, examples and practice sheets.

This is Endy!! My mom grabbed this one for me because I love drawing and I wanted to try my hand at creating my own fonts. This book was great and easy to use. Even though I am only 13 I found it easy to follow and I can't wait to get it in print so I can really dive back into it and show you all what I have done. I didn't put this down for two days and it showed me everything from learning letter forms and tracing to learning skills. If you think you want to learn how to create your own fonts then check this out to see if it's something you really want to do. It's a great step by step guide.