Pen Lettering Simplified with Drawlet Pens (1929) — Digital Download

The rival pen’s lettering manual, as an instant download.

Pen Lettering Simplified with Drawlet Pens (1929) by Andrew Szoeke is Esterbrook’s answer to the Speedball books — a complete lettering method built around the Drawlet pen, the Speedball’s great rival. Same audience, different pen: alphabets and technique for everyone who lettered with Esterbrook steel pens.

Inside this 1929 manual:

Written when the Speedball pen was the working tool of every lettering shop, this 1929 manual teaches the pen the way tradesmen learned it: Speedball pen nibs and poster-pen alphabets, alphabet construction and letter spacing. Lettering artists, sign painters, and show card writers building a reference shelf will reach for it every time a job needs a period-correct hand.

Details:

• Complete 1929 edition scan — 44 pages
• Esterbrook Drawlet pen method — the Speedball rival
• Alphabets and technique for steel-pen lettering
• Practice plates drawn for the Speedball and poster pen — work them with any broad nib
• Alphabet construction, spacing, and commercial layouts in lesson order
• Two files included: the original scan, cleaned of dust, stray marks, and handwritten notes, and a cleaned white-background edition that's easy on the eyes and the printer
• PDF format, instant download after purchase — no physical book ships