Cute Hand Lettering

Cindy Guentert-Baldo is a lettering artist and content creator who is known for her fun, creative hand lettering in her planners and journals. She uses her experience attained over more than a decade of professional lettering to do freelance design for one of the most successful independent planner sticker companies, as well as teaching lettering courses aimed at beginners both online and in person. She regularly provides tutorials and inspiration for her 50k+ followers on Instagram (@llamaletters) and 52k+ subscribers on YouTube.

Chapter One: Just Start

• Meet Cindy!

• How to use this book

• What is lettering?

• Benefits of lettering in your journal

• Materials I use

• The importance of daily practice

• Get out of your head

• Handwriting temperature



Chapter Two: Your Handwriting

• Making friends with your handwriting

• Printing

• Cursive—alphabets

• Cursive—connecting letters

• Improving your handwriting

• Playing with your handwriting

• Small changes, big impact



Chapter Three: Super Simple Lettering Styles

• Make it bulky

• Easy romantic printing

• Sans-serif simplicity

• Adding the serif

• Thicken the downstroke (faux-calligraphy)

• Fun fill ins

• Add some flair

• Numbers and symbols



Chapter Four: Taking it to the Next Level

• Blocking it out

• Bubble letters five ways

• Drop (shadow) it like it's hot

• Dress your bubble letters up

• How to overlap bubble letters

• From straight to bouncy lettering—printing

• From straight to bouncy lettering—cursive

• Numbers and symbols



Chapter Five: Let's Advance!

• Adding flourishes

• Decorating your letters

• Spacing and layout

• Numbers and symbols



Chapter Six: Using Lettering in your Journal

• Tips for deciding what lettering to use

• Journal lettering cheat sheet

• Pairing lettering styles together

• Headers

• Banners

• Filling in space

• Working small

• Lists of ideas for journal lettering



Chapter Seven: What Do I Do Next?

• Moving forward

• Handwriting temperature