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Typography · Scripts & hands

Hand-lettering

Custom drawn or painted letters rather than set fonts.

A design choice in Stylogeny’s vocabulary, under typography: what do the letters look like, and how are they set?

styles make it: 250
as a defining choice: 106
as a usual one: 85
now and then: 59
avoid it: 4

Styles defined by it 106

For these styles it is one of the choices that make the style.

Styles that often use it 85

A characteristic choice: usual in these styles, though not essential.

Styles that use it now and then 59

An occasional choice in these styles.

It often goes with

Choices that the styles making it make more often than the atlas as a whole.

Painterly brushworkin 125 of 250
Stylised figurationin 195 of 250
Pen, brush & inkin 116 of 250
Line illustrationin 144 of 250
Hand-paintedin 100 of 250
Communal & popularin 153 of 250

Styles that avoid it

Styles that deliberately leave it out.

Other choices in typography