Beautiful headlines

Design tips and tricks

A great way to emphasise the most important items in your journal and maintain a clear overview is to decorate the headings. Attractive titles help you find your way around the page, allowing you to see at a glance what each one is about. You can also make the title page really eye-catching by drawing attention-grabbing headlines. With the calligraphy pens from edding and a little bit of practice, you can create really expressive fonts. The sturdy calligraphy nib stays nice and stable without bending, meaning that even beginners can achieve great results with ease. There are five colours available, plus three stroke widths for creating a wide array of font sizes.

Categories: Journaling
Calligraphy
Products: Calligraphy markers and pens
Materials: Paper, carton and cardboard
Difficulty: Easy peasy
Downloads: Images (ZIP)

Step-by-step

Step 1

Make sure you select a calligraphy nib that suits the size of your headline. For example, the 5 mm nib is not particularly ideal for very small headings. We recommend you do a few practice runs on a sheet of paper first. If you want to delve deeper into the art of calligraphy, we recommend our calligraphy training.

Step 2

Here, we show you how to design a monthly heading in different font styles. For example, purely in upper case or lower case, or using really stretched-out letter spacing.

Step 3

The 2 mm nib width gives smaller fonts lots of expression, as you can see here in our example which shows the days of the week. Again, this gives you the chance to combine various writing styles to great effect.

Step 4

If you write out a selection of pre-defined headline styles and keep them to hand at all times, all you need to do is transfer them into your journal as and when required.