60 Lettering Practice Sheets
Couldn’t find calligraphy practice sheets online so I thought, hey, it’s just a bunch of lines, I can make ones for myself. It didn’t take me the 10 minutes I thought it would, so I thought I may as well share my hard work. Ended up with 60 variations. Let me know if you have suggestions to add to it!
Links are below, with the a complete list and explanation at the bottom. There’s also a tiny watermark of my blog, and I’d appreciate it if you don’t take it out, but hey, I won’t do anything if you do either. Just don’t redistribute without it, please!
I won’t be posting individual links because 60 links is just too cumbersome. I zipped the files according to height proportions and slant.
By height proportion (x-height : ascender and descender):
1:1, no x-height marking
1:1, with x-height marking
1:2, no X
1:2, with X
2:1, no X
2:1, with X
2:3, no X
2:3, with X
3:1, no X
3:1, with X
3:2, no X
3:2, with X
By slant:
No slant guide, no x-height marking
No slant guide, with x-height marking
Midline guide, no X
Midline guide, with X
30 degree guide, no X
30 degree guide, with X
45 degree guide, no X
45 degree guide, with X
60 degree guide, no X
60 degree guide, with X
or you can just download all 60 sheets!!!
Some extra info that you don’t really need to know:
All sheets are printable on standard 8.5inx11in paper. Margins on the image is half an inch on all sides, so still printable on A4 size, just with different margin sizes.
The sheet numbers are sheet details. First digit is the x-height, second digit is the ascender and descender, last digit is just the slant guides, and the ‘x’ means that the x mark is displayed at the left.
Example: Sheet no. 230 means 2 x-height is to 3 ascender and descender height. The height is basically in quarter inches, so a 2 is 0.5 an inch and 3 is 0.75 an inch. The last digit, 0, means there’s no slant guide. Since there’s no ‘x,’ there’s no mark at the beginning of the line.
Corresponding numbers for the slant guides (3rd digit):
0 = no slant lines
1 = x-mid line
2 = 30 degree line
3 = 45 degree line
4 = 60 degree line
The naming convention was basically for me to organize it better. So up to you if you rename it.
titsay
snowghoul
germansingergirl
origamiaround
pixelskylines
amandla
prguitarman
