A TEMPLATE FOR QUICK LETTERING OF YOUR OWN STYLE
When I was a student of Architecture, I find difficult to complete my
drawings in the examination with good lettering. Using stencil is time
consuming and require rotring pens, lettering with guide lines is still more
time consuming. We were unheard of 0.5 pen pencil or clutch pencils at that
time. Only few affordable students were using Made in Japan, imported pencils. Poor lettering spoils all the efforts taken for good drafting. I
was wondering how to tackle this problem. Later I found my own solution for
this. It is very easy and anybody can make it. You just require a thick transparent
OHP sheet, a steel scale and a cutter.
In all drawings there will be hierarchy of lettering like
titles, subtitles, descriptions etc. Hence we need lettering guide lines of
different height. Decide the various heights, draw then over transparent sheet
and cut them. Now your hand made lettering stencil is ready. Keep it on the
drawing sheet, match with any horizontal line of your drawing with the guide
lines (Cuts) and write in pen, pencil, rotring pens, ball pen, gel pen etc. You
can develop your own lettering style. You can carry the same for your
examination and quickly complete your drawing with good lettering.
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| Transparent sheet is cut along guide lines of different heights. |
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| Another sample with cut guide lines |
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| Even big circles can be cut which is not available in circle template to show trees in plan in 1:100. 1:200 scale |
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| This is how you can use the template for lettering |
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| If you remove the lettering will look like this. The stiff the template, lettering will be good. |
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| You can have your own lettering style. |
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| This is a sample done in my college days using the template (1976) for an asignment |
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| Another sample with hierarchy of lettering |
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| Another sample |
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| Another sample for Climatalogy assignment |
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