31+ Free Printable Lettering And Calligraphy Worksheets
Looking for a way to improve your brush lettering? You’re in the right place; here are tons of FREE printable hand lettering worksheets to help you master this skill.
And don’t worry it’s all beginner-friendly, and I’ll leave you with a lot of resources on where to start your lettering journey. Get ready to rock your lettering skills, and let’s dive into the post!
Lettering is one of the skills you might want to master for your Bullet Journal pages. I’m always in awe of the beautiful calligraphy people use to decorate their journal pages.
What I quickly realized is that the secret to better lettering is, of course, practice, so I did my research and found tons of free resources and printable calligraphy worksheets to improve this skill.
Before we dive in, though, here are some tips and materials to be sure you’re ready to get going with your lettering.
And of course, we have to start with stationery because, boy or boy, are there a lot of pens you can use for brush lettering!
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Lettering Supplies
The basic thing you need to know about pens you use for brush lettering is that they should have a flexible tip. Or at least have the possibility to create both thin and thick lines.
First of all, let’s start with the most budget version, which you might even have at home – Crayola Super Tips!
Yes, these little devils can create the same brush calligraphy effects as any other brush pen, but for a much, much lower cost.
There is even a special course you can take for free to learn how to use these markers for brush lettering.
- One 50-ct pack of Crayola Super Tips Washable Markers
- Super Tip Markers make thick or thin lines for a variety of coloring techniques
- Washable marker set easily washes from skin and most washable clothing
If you want to invest in a proper brush pen, don’t go further than Tombow Dual Brush Pens. They are amazing, have tons of colors, and, most importantly – their brushes are very beginner-friendly
Plus, the marker tip will help you fix any small mistakes in your lettering you might make as a beginner.
- Ideal for fine art, brush lettering, faux calligraphy, illustrations, water color illustrations, journaling and more!
- Set of 9 colors and 1 blender pen, with flexible brush tip and fine tip in one marker
- BRUSH TIP: Durable and flexible nylon fiber brush tip, creates medium or bold strokes by changing brush pressure
You also might want to have a smaller brush pen for more detailed work, such as headers for your weekly spreads.
Here is where you have a wonderful option of Tombow Fudenosuke pens. They come in hard and soft tips so that you can control the style of your lettering.
There are also colored and neon versions of these brush pens, so you could add some more spark to your headers.
I’d definitely say these pens are the best when you start learning calligraphy from zero.
- Contains both the soft and hard tip Fudenosuke Brush Pens
- Features a flexible brush tip for different lettering and drawing techniques
- Create extra fine, fine or medium strokes by a change in brush pressure
For more recommendations, check out my post The Best Pens For Brush Lettering.
How To Print Calligraphy Worksheets
Before we dive into printable brush lettering practice sheets, I thought I should mention a few tips on how to print and use them because I surely made a lot of mistakes with them myself and paid dearly for it.
If you are practicing your letters right in your worksheets, make sure you use high-quality printing paper (like this one), otherwise, the paper might damage your pen, and we never want that!
Alternatively, you can also use any paper and just use a tracing paper sheet for practicing. That way, you’ll also be able to reuse your worksheets, plus tracing paper is much more affordable.
My recommendation would be this marker paper or this tracing paper.
Free Brush Lettering Worksheets
If you want a deeper dive into brush lettering, be sure to check my post Brush Calligraphy For Beginners, you'll find there all the steps and tips for learning calligraphy.
You can also check my post Free Courses To Learn Brush Lettering, for some more resources.
The best way to learn brush lettering is of course practice, so let's dive into the worksheets you can use to rock your calligraphy skills.
We will start with basic strokes and then move to more elaborate ones like words and quotes.
Before I give you the links, I want to mention that these are from different creators, so there is no one link to download them all; just click on each name separately. And, of course, for my printables, you can sign up at the end of the post.
Brush Lettering Practice Sheets With Basic Strokes
Since practicing brush lettering starts from basic strokes, let’s start with free basic stroke printables.
You’ll see that every creator has their own style, so even brush strokes might look a bit different. It’s not a problem – you can do any style you like. The important thing here is – to keep all your strokes in the same style, particularly angled the same way.
Ok, you’re ready now, so let’s dive in and check out these practice sheets to rock your calligraphy skills.
Awesome Alice has a lot of amazing lettering printables; there will be more featured below. But for beginners, the best is to start with these basic strokes.
I like these worksheets because they have a lot of interesting variations on the basic strokes we talked about above.
This one includes slant basic strokes, as well as a sample alphabet. It has a more traditional calligraphy look to it, but the basic strokes are basic strokes. So it works even if you’re going for a more modern calligraphy feel.
There is a difference in size between the large and small tips, so it’s good to have worksheets for both. I love that Nicole also provides the files for digital lettering on your iPad.
Nicole has a lot of worksheets (and there will be more links to her resources). Again I love how she decided to include both small and bit tip brush pens worksheets.
If you ever get bored with your usual drills – just try out this worksheet! the main principles are the same, but it feels very different and more fun.
She has a lot of lettering practice sheets; all you need is to sign up for her mailing list which will bring you lots of lettering resources.
The strokes here are very basic, but of course, that’s a good thing. I like the post itself as well since it provides a lot of interesting information on lettering.
This one includes basic strokes but also just a grid to help you practice more.
These are not the only printable calligraphy worksheets by the way, so keep on reading, and you’ll find so many more.
You can practice your lettering and keep the brush strokes even by using specially lined paper. I actually have the empty worksheets with lining that helps with brush lettering in the Resources Vault, so you can print that out and use it for practice.
Free Hand Lettering Worksheets
Here are some free resources to learn brush lettering letter by letter.
Note here that even if it sounds the same in many resources, the style of letters is always different, so be sure to check them all out to find the style you love.
We will start from the basics - small and capital letters of the alphabet.
All lower case alphabet hand-drawn by Shawna Clingerman.
Moreover, these worksheets are great for large tip brush pens, like Tombow Dual Brush.
If you want to try your hand in uppercase – this worksheet is for you.
Plus, again, you can use this one with large tip brush pens.
12 pages of lettering worksheets that include minuscule letters, as well as some phrases.
I just wanted to mention that even though there are many worksheets here for the alphabet, all of them are different and created in different styles.
You’ll not just have an alphabet, but you’ll have it in 8 different styles.
Plus also, each letter has some words you can practice.
The lowercase brush pen lettering worksheet is great for small tip brush pens.
This one also comes with a file for Procreate to rock your digital brush lettering.
This one includes both minuscule and capital letters.
The cool thing about these worksheets is that each letter inside is divided by basic strokes, so it will be significantly easier to practice them.
Free Hand Lettering Practice Sheets - Printable Brush Pen Lettering Guides
In very different brush lettering styles, these worksheets include lower and upper cases.
Also, something that you don't often see - numbers.
Shelby from Little Coffee Fox is a great master of lettering, and of course, she has some awesome worksheets.
These have a page for each letter, and each page has 50 ways to letter a certain letter of the alphabet.
There are 5 pages in this worksheet covered with uppercase alphabet practice. All you need to get your access is to sign up for her resources vault.
There are also files for practicing in Procreate available. And these are great for small tip brush pens like Tombow Fudenosuke.
This worksheet is just one page but has all the minuscule alphabet.
I want to mention that the lettering style is very very cute!
Learn Brush Lettering with These Free Practice Sheets ⋆ The Petite Planner
The Petite Planner has beautiful lettering skills, so of course, with her being an educator as well, she had to create some lettering worksheets.
These include capital and minuscule letters and some words you might want to letter in your Bullet Journal.
Capital and minuscule letters in a very cute font!
This worksheet also has little helpful arrows to guide you through the process of writing all the letters.
Worksheets with capital and minuscule letters.
The best part is – they are in a very beautiful flourished style. Definitely give it a look!
Lettering worksheets: 9+ FREE printable practice sheets to trace
Beautiful worksheets and these are not just about calligraphy; they also include different handwriting fonts and such.
Speaking of, you can check my post Font Ideas For Your Bullet Journal to get some more inspiration.
This resource has worksheets on the lowercase alphabet, holiday greetings, and basic strokes.
And the best part is - they are available for both small tip and large tip brush pens.
This site has a lot of lettering-related freebies, so be sure to give it a look.
This particular one has free printable lowercase lettering worksheets for large brush pens.
Calligraphy Worksheets Download – Brush Lettering and 53-page Copperplate Calligraphy
This is a huge resource with 53+ worksheets.
They include basic strokes, lower and upper cases, and some extra holiday lettering pieces.
Words And Sentences Lettering Practice Sheets
Now that you know how to write letters, it might be a good time to start with writing words.
Thankfully there are tons of worksheets for that, so let’s take a look.
One more practice worksheet for days of the week.
Considering all worksheets come from different creators and have different styles it’s always good to have a variety of them.
Worksheet that includes a lot of words useful for your planner setup.
From names of the months of the year to the “this month”, and “review” kind of words you’ll use in your planner pretty often.
One more days of the week worksheet.
Since for your weekly spreads, you would mostly need it to be in a smaller size. So this worksheet is perfect, and it works well with small tip brush pens.
You can find many interesting worksheets here, including such important basic ones as months of the year and days of the week.
All these will be great for your Bullet Journal, whether it’s your monthly setup or a quote page.
Want to create a Harry Potter Bullet Journal theme? These worksheets are perfect for you.
Full of names and different other Harry Potter words to add to your pages.
One more cool worksheet from Alice, and this time it’s all about the holidays.
Learn to brush letter different holiday names with these worksheets.
Pigeon Letters is a master of lettering (I learned a lot from her book!) so of course, she has plenty of lettering resources as freebies.
I’ve got access to ger resources library myself, and I must say it’s full of useful things.
Other Calligraphy Worksheets
We are done with all the basics by now, but I still found a few other printable worksheets that might be fun to explore.
These are not a must-have in mastering lettering, but it might be fun to do those.
While you’re still working on your brush lettering, you might want to try faux calligraphy.
This is a fun way to create a brush lettering effect without actually using a brush pen!
And it’s not just a worksheet; it also comes with a pretty detailed guide to faux calligraphy.
Flourishing your letters can add a lot of fun to your words, plus it’s a good way to fill out empty spaces on your quote pages.
This worksheet will give you some ideas on what kind of flourishes you can use in your lettering.
Want to improve your hand lettering? This worksheet is for you.
If you’re seriously working on your handwriting, though, check my blog post 9 Simple Techniques To Improve Your Handwriting.
There are some more lettering printables in the Resources Vault, including a worksheet with some more flourish ideas.
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I think you’re all set to go and conquer the world of brush lettering!
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thank you this was helpful.
I’m happy to hear that =)
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Really need this for my daughter
Happy you were able to find it here =)
Thank you Masha <33
I am going to be working with a patient with depression who used to really enjoy calligraphy, can’t wait to print these out.
HI. Where is the link to download the 31+ printables?
All the links are in the blog post =)
i cannot find that blog post please send that printing link in this comment box
All the pink box text are the links. There are too many to post here, sorry!
I was confused too…. I don’t think there is one link to download all at once. You have to click on each individual link, and I guess the total number of pages is “31+”
Yeah, it’s each download with its own link =) I’ll try to edit and clarify this in the text for the future.
I see that I am not the only one confused, haha! That makes me feel a little better. :) I think you have to click on each individual link and the total number of pages add up to more than 30. So it’s not just a one click download.
Yes, it isn’t! Since these are made by different creators so you do have to download them separately. Sorry for the confusion, I’ll try to update the post to make these things more clear.
Thank you so much for mentioning my small brush lettering practice sheet!
Thank you for creating it!