Calligraphy Guides: Lettering

Calligraphy Guides makes practice guide sheets for calligraphy and hand lettering. Pick a hand, set your nib and slant, then print the sheet as a PDF or PNG and write straight on it.

Start from a hand
Copperplate and Italic are free. Pro adds Spencerian, Brush lettering, Foundational, Uncial, Textura and Roman capitals, each with standard proportions.

Pointed pen
Set the x-height from 2 mm to 16 mm, the slant from 45° to upright, and ascender, descender and capital heights as multiples of the x-height (3:2:3 for Copperplate, for example).

Broad pen
Heights in nib widths, the way calligraphy books give them: x-height, ascenders, descenders and capitals in half nib steps. Nib widths from 0.5 mm to 8 mm, with one tap sizes for Pilot Parallel pens (1.5, 2.4, 3.8 and 6.0 mm). The pen angle is printed on every sheet.

Sheets that print well
Print straight from the app, or share a PDF or 300 dpi PNG. White paper, fine lines and a settings line at the top of every page. Print at actual size and the heights match your nib.

Your last sheet is kept, so you can carry on where you left off.

Pro, a one-time purchase
- All 8 hands
- Nib ladders and pen angle marks on broad pen sheets
- Cap height line, dashed midline and a blank row between lines
- Line colours, including light grey and blue for faint guides
- A5 and A3, landscape pages and your own margins
- Multi page PDFs, up to 20 sheets in one file
- Saved templates
- Clean sheets without the free line

Free sheets carry a small "Made with Calligraphy Guides free" line. No account needed and everything stays on your phone.

Recent changes:
Fixes the Pro unlock store connection.