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A weekly magazine for people who want to understand the craft behind lettering and calligraphy — not just copy what they see.
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Something to learn.
Something to try.
A fresh way to see.
Every Thursday, I share practical insights, exercises worth trying, useful resources, and lessons from 11+ years of professional practice. Whether you’re picking up a pen for the first time or already filling sketchbooks.
LEARN
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Understand why lettering works. Explore techniques, spacing, composition, and the little details that make a big difference.
PRACTICE
02
Pick up your tools and try something. Alphabet exercises, brush drills, and practical prompts help you work on control, rhythm, and the details of your letters—not just read about them.
EXPLORE
03
Find helpful links, inspirational books, historic alphabets, and other discoveries worth keeping. Resources aren’t always downloads—sometimes they’re the thing that sparks your next idea.
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Real pages.
Useful things inside.
Here’s a taste of issues #7–10. The topics change. The point stays the same: help you understand more and make better letters.
A closer look · From the free issue #10
“You don’t have to solve the composition and the lettering at the same time.”
Turn your words into boxes, explore a few layouts, then focus on the lettering. A simple idea you can try in your next sketch.
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Take a look inside Lettering Weekly #6 and see how I explain counterspaces.
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The corrections, decisions, and work in progress behind the finished piece.
01 / Red Line Breakdowns
Learn to see what you’re missing.
You know your lettering isn’t quite right. You just don’t know why.
I mark it up like I would in the studio: spacing, letter heights, baseline. What I’d change, why, and what I’d leave alone. Here’s the original next to my notes.
THE ORIGINAL · #9
WHAT I’D CHANGE · PRO #9
02 / Process Insights
From first pass to final piece.
Follow one real project: the first layout, the revisions, and the finished lettering.
I share what changed between stages and why—including the ideas I didn’t keep.
01 — First pass
One piece, several decisions. From Pro issue #10.
02 — Refine & rethink
03 — Final piece
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A growing library to return to.
Exclusive worksheets, cheat sheets, and other useful downloads—plus previous Pro issues. A growing library you can come back to whenever you want to work on your letters.
New resources are added as they’re released.
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Readers write back
Hi Max, thanks for the incredible amount of effort you put into your articles. Your writing connects with me because it’s real.
Your first two issues, especially the part about negative space between letters, answered more questions for me than several decades of calligraphy books.
Great teaching the eye to look for inconsistencies, plus an opportunity to have your work critiqued. It’ll be hard to outdo this issue!
A note from the studio
Why I made Lettering Weekly.
After more than a decade working in lettering and calligraphy, I’ve collected plenty that doesn’t fit into an ordinary tutorial: a sketch that went nowhere, a small adjustment that saved a piece, a book I keep coming back to. I created Lettering Weekly to make room for those things. A place to share what I’m working on, what I’m trying, and what’s worth passing along—written fresh each week, from my drawing board to yours.
Max – Lettering Daily
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