From brush lettering to the digital-analog hybrid style, discover the trends shaping lettering this year and learn how to start putting them into practice without losing your own creative voice. Lettering isn’t moving in just one direction—it’s moving in many directions at once. Traditional coexists with digital, hand-drawn with automated, and nostalgic with experimental. This blend is giving rise to a wide variety of styles that respond not only to aesthetic criteria but also to new forms of visual communication. This article brings together some of the lettering styles that are generating the most interest in 2026. It’s not meant to be an exhaustive or definitive list, but rather a guide to observing, understanding, and practicing different ways of forming letters.
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Halifax, Canada
