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Lettering a Monoline Wordmark: Creating Graffiti-Inspired Uniform Lines

Name: Lettering a Monoline Wordmark: Creating Graffiti-Inspired Uniform Lines
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Monoline Lettering's Graphic Potential

Monoline lettering—uniform thickness throughout—creates a distinctive, graphic look that stands apart from traditional calligraphy. This class teaches the techniques that lettering artist Ricardo Gonzalez uses to build striking wordmarks that balance hand-drawn warmth with digital precision.

Over 70 minutes, you'll work through his complete process: warm-up exercises, sketching, inking, and photographing, then refining in Photoshop. The class reveals the behind-the-scenes work behind his popular Instagram portfolio. By mixing digital and physical techniques, you'll learn to add depth and detail to monoline letterforms. Whether you're new to lettering or an experienced designer looking to expand your toolkit, this class shows how monoline's simplicity creates powerful, modern type that works beautifully as logos and wordmarks.

About this course

In this popular class, lettering artist and designer Ricardo Gonzalez teaches you the tricks of lettering his iconic monoline wordmarks, mixing digital and physical techniques to create depth and detail!

While traditional calligraphy has strokes of varying weights ("thicks and "thins"), monoline lettering has a uniform thickness throughout the pen stroke. Using a rounded-tip pen or graffiti marker instead of a chiseled nib creates a distinctive, graphic look that lettering artists are sure to love adding to their artistic arsenal.

In this 70-minute class, you'll walk through Ricardo's creative lettering process, including:

warm-up exercises
sketching
inking
photographing and Photoshopping the finished lettered piece

Every lesson is a true behind-the-scenes into the work featured on his popular Instagram account, @itsaliving!

Perfect for designers, illustrators, and type enthusiasts alike, you don't need any prior knowledge in calligraphy or lettering to get started. Beginners welcome! By the end of the lessons, you’ll be able to create and share a monoline wordmark of your own.

Image courtesy Ricardo Gonzalez via Instagram (@itsaliving)