Complete Guide to Bounce Lettering

Bounce lettering is a popular style of calligraphy that looks flowing and effortless. But if you've ever tried to bounce letters on your own, you know that it's harder than it looks!

In this online course, we'll teach you how to do bounce lettering that looks beautiful and balanced so you can confidently create your own bounce style.

"O-M-G! I am obsessed with bounce lettering! Once I am comfortable with modern calligraphy I am definitely trying bounce lettering. Absolutely my style of lettering! Yay! Thank you!!" - Helene, Bounce Lettering student

Hear what students are saying:

"This was great! I struggled with Bounce Lettering but I was determined to learn it. The videos were fantastic to explain clearly when to dip down and when to bounce up. Suddenly it wasn't so challenging." - Amy

Jordan asked me to critique her bouncy style for this word she lettered. Here are some things I looked for...

• CONTRAST: Is there a big enough difference between the dips to make them look intentional?
• CONSISTENCY: Are there any areas where the bounce looks too high or low, or out of place?
• BALANCE AND SPACING: When you take a step back and look at the big picture, does it look balanced?
• LEGIBILITY: Can you read what the letters spell? If not, you’ll need to figure out what’s causing the problem and adjust accordingly. A slight change can make a big difference.

P.S. I think Jordan did a great job on her word, but she asked me to be picky ;)

Add Bounce To Your Hand Lettering

If you’re looking for ways to make your hand lettering more playful and advanced, bounce lettering is the lettering style for you. In this bounce lettering course, we’ll show you step by step how to put a little skip in your brush lettering style.

Why Do Some Letters Bounce?

Have you tried bounce lettering for yourself on your own before? If you have, then you’ve seen that the bounce lettering effect is far from spontaneous. Some letters bounce better than others and some letters seem to refuse to move (no matter how hard you bounce them!).

Bounce lettering isn’t random and successful bounce lettering relies on understanding specific ideas behind this lettering style. By looking at the letters of the alphabet one by one in the course, we’ll examine why some letters bounce and others simply can’t.

Want a teaser? Here’s a glance at the technique you’ll learn:

Lowercase Letters: An In-depth Bounce Letter Dissection

Uncover the mysteries of the bounce lettering effect one step at a time, starting with the lowercase letters of the alphabet.

Over the years, we’ve taught thousands students how to make bounce lettering a part of their own personal style, even when writing something as fundamental as the alphabet. Besides learning the 3 basic bounce lettering principles, you’ll learn how the most “bouncy letters” share certain strokes and characteristics that make them bounce.

The Bounce in Different Brush Lettering Styles

Do you want your letters to be more playful? More dramatic? Whatever specific style you want to master, we’ve got you covered.

Not every brush lettering style is the same, and this is even true for something as unique as bounce lettering. Learn to bend this modern calligraphy script to fit your own style, whether you need more color, a different script or brush pen, or even a different bounce altogether.

Personal execution matters with any script, which is why we go over more than one bounce lettering style. For each of the lowercase letters, we offer multiple ways to add the bounce effect so you can truly bring the bounce to any project you’re working on.

Create Bounce Lettering That's Unique

Fun bounce lettering is more than just moving a few strokes or letters; it’s about bouncing words and even connections. This approach of exploring letter connections is unique to our technique, and it will help you create your own compositions that are unique to your style.

Lettering Compositions And The Bounce

Once we’ve covered strokes, letters and words, we’ll zoom out even further by going over planning out bounce lettering projects, layouts and compositions. While these conversations can feel abstract and confusing when they’re not taught correctly, you’ll be able to follow along easily with our worksheets.

Step by step, you’ll learn how to use this modern calligraphy style to create fun greeting cards and other personalized messages.

Included in this course is our unique approach to complete bounce lettering compositions. We’ll go over bounce lettering patterns that work well, plus patterns that ruin compositions and are best avoided.

By analyzing the underlying principles, you walk away with a clear understanding of how to do bounce lettering the right way, no matter what you’re working on.

How To Practice Bounce Lettering

Finally, we’ll give you everything you need to build up muscle memory as you practice your newfound bounce lettering skills.

We’ll set you up with all the practice sheets you need to not just practice but perfect your bounce lettering. You’ll practice along with the practice words you see in the accompanying videos before moving on to creating your own unique projects.

Bouncing is one of many modern calligraphy styles that can really bring your brush lettering to life. Grab your brush pen, Apple pencil or even any pen or pencil and get started now! Follow along with the real-time examples in the videos and watch your hand lettering transform.

At the end of the day, we just want you to be a confident lettering artist who can add some bounce into their style. We made this course to give you a short-cut to that outcome, so that you don't have to spend months trying to figure it out like we did.

We are confident that the materials in the course will help get you there and we would love to have you join our community.

Happy Lettering!