Lettering

[3] Proportion is defined as preserving the essential forms of a letter in conjunction to one another when exaggerating and dwarfing.

[5] Lettering may be drawn, incised, applied using stencils,[6][7][8] using a digital medium with a stylus, or a vector program.

[9][10][11][12] More recently, there has been an influx of aspiring artists attempting hand-lettering with brush pens and digital mediums.

[13] Seb Lester Phil Grimshaw Pablo Ferro Herb Lubalin Louise Fili Jessica Hische Alan Peckoclick Alex Trochut Calligraphy is based on penmanship; it’s essentially "writing letters."

Calligraphy is known as a more rigid process, that requires learning the formal shapes of letters and often combining thick downstrokes with thin upstrokes.

[1] Many textbooks on lettering or books of example alphabets were published in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.