August Hand Lettering: 10 Unique Styles to Engage in Learning

Ready to practice hand lettering in August? Need some ideas for your bullet journal or planner? Here are 10 lettering styles for August hand lettering as well as August words and quotes to engage in learning and appreciate this back-to-school season.

10 August Hand Lettering Styles to Engage in Learning

Remember that feeling of anticipating the first day of school? Even for those of us no longer in that season of life, it’s hard to forget that it’s that time of year again! In honor of going back to school, this month’s theme is learning!

I love learning. And I love that we can always continue to learn. Especially today – the world is at our fingertips! We can literally learn anything we want from the comfort of our homes. Anyone else love diving into one subject and then changing your mind a few weeks later to start diving into something else? Or maybe you’re the kind of person who likes learning about several different topics at a time. It’s amazing what we can learn from books, podcasts, or Youtube. Including so much about hand lettering! What a beautiful thing!

By the way, if you want to learn hand lettering, check out my book Hand Lettering For Beginners!

How To Have Fun Learning Hand Lettering

Have you ever looked at someone else’s amazing hand lettering and thought, I’ll never be able to do that? Sometimes the distance between where we are and where we want to be can feel impossibly large. What do you do when that’s the case?

I like choosing this route: Make it fun! If I’m going to traverse that distance, I might as well enjoy the journey.

And here’s a little spoiler: In my experience, there isn’t really a magic destination where you arrive at knowing or being able to do everything. Often the more you learn, the more you realize how much there is to learn. Or you discover new topics and skills and nuances that give you a new direction and destination to aim for.

If you’re not convinced that making it fun is a good idea, have you ever watched how quickly a child can learn something that feels fun for them? And how long and unsuccessful that same learning can be if they just don’t want to do it? Making things fun for ourselves not only allows us to enjoy the journey, but can even make our progress go faster! So for today, simply enjoy the curiosity and lean into what feels fun to learn.

Now pull out your favorite pens and journal and have fun learning something new this August!

10 Ways to Hand Letter August

You have a unique style and interests. Why not let that uniqueness guide your hand lettering learning? One way to do that is by choosing the styles that feel fun to you and practicing them. You don’t have to create hand lettering for or like anyone else. Choose the parts that excite you!

Here are 10 specific styles to get you started:

Tall and Narrow
Short and Wide
Quirky Print
Simple
Open Faux Calligraphy
Flourished Loops
Straight Print
Round
Bouncy
Bouncy and Wide

These styles describe the corresponding words in this picture: (you can find these practice worksheets here)

Here is my video with 10 ways to hand letter August. Practice hand lettering with me! In this video I’m using pens that are similar to Crayola markers that can be found in other countries. I have a whole post about Crayola Markers Compared to International Pens if that helps you today! I hope these styles give you some inspiration!

August Words to Letter

Need some inspiration for August words to practice hand lettering? Here’s an A-Z list of 30 words about learning.

Assignment
Books
Classroom
Curiosity
Discover
Explore
Education
Field trip
Growth
Habit
Inform
Journal
Knowledge
Learn
Mentor
Mastering
Nurturing
Observe
Play
Practice
Questioning
Read
Seeking
Teach
Understand
Visit the library
Workbook
Textbook
Yearly
Memorize

Having fun is the best way to learn. Albert Einstein quote

Hand Lettering August Quotes

Ready to practice hand lettering quotes? Here are some August quotes for back-to-school to engage in learning. Even if we aren’t going to school this year, there is always more to learn about ourselves and our hand lettering art.

Nobody learns without getting it wrong.

Learn something new everyday.

Slow and steady wins the race.

“The beginning is always today.” — Mary Shelley

“Having fun is the best way to learn.” -Albert Einstein

“A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.” — Joyce Meyer

“He who laughs the most, learns best.” -John Cleese

“Repeat after me: I’m not an imposter. I’m just a beginner.” -Mel Robbins

“The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.” -B.B. King

“I am still learning.” -Michelangelo (age 87)

“You must do the things you think you cannot do.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

“It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.” -Claude Bernard

“What we learn with pleasure we never forget.” — Alfred Mercier

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” — Mark Twain

“It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.” -Harry S. Truman

“Having fun isn’t hard when you’ve got a library card!” -Arthur

“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” -Benjamin Franklin

“The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.” -Sydney J. Harris

“Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.” -William Arthur Ward

“There is divine beauty in learning.” -Elie Wiesel

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” -Dr. Seuss

“The expert in anything was once a beginner.” -Anonymous

“Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.” -Mark Twain

slow and steady wins the race hand lettered quote

More Lettering Style Inspiration

If you liked the styles in this post, and you want to practice, I have a hand lettering worksheet bundle that includes hand lettering August and all the months and other words in 10 styles. Get the 10 Ways to Letter worksheets here. Use code “HELLOLETTERING” for 20% off just for reading this post. 🙂

hand lettering worksheets 10 ways to letter styles

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