How to Write in a Block Script
- 1). Count how many words you will write and the number of letters in each word. Once you have a total letter count, increase the total by one each time you need to leave a space between words and for punctuation. For example, "Go Fighting Cats!" has 17 total characters, 14 for the letters and three for the spaces between the words and the exclamation mark.
- 2). Measure the space you have to write on. Be sure to measure each line separately and take care to be precise. If you are going to be writing on a scrapbook page, for example, be sure to measure around photographs, stickers or decorative borders.
- 3). Divide the space per line by the number of characters that you would like to write. Mark the center of each distance with a small pencil dot. Keep in mind that block letters are wider than regularly written letters and should not be squeezed too closely together or else the letters are hard to read. Spacing the text may take a few tries since it should not be broken up across lines, and you may wish to make important words larger.
- 4). Draw a faint outline of each letter so that the center of the letter goes through the pencil dots. For letters like "w" and "m," you will need to center the letters carefully so that they do not crowd neighboring letters. Smaller letters like "l" and "i" must be carefully centered so that the complete word looks uniform and neat.
- 5). Trace the pencil outlines with your permanent marker. For small signs, brochures and flyers, you may only need to trace the letters once or twice, depending on how thick the tip of the marker is. For larger posters or very blocky letters, you will need to trace each letter multiple times. Each time you trace the letter, follow the outer edge of the marker line. The letter will become more blocky with each tracing.
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