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Draw Your Own Alphabets: Thirty Fonts to Scribble, Sketch, and Make Your Own is a new book by Tony Seddon that teaches you how to cre­ate your own cus­tom fonts. The book includes 30 unique alpha­bets paired with instruc­tions on how to make them your own. The focus is def­i­nitely on hand-drawn dis­play typog­ra­phy, but the tech­ni­cal lessons in the book can be applied in all sorts of situations.

From the pub­lisher:
There are many ways to make your writ­ing feel more per­sonal, but none car­ries the charge of using a custom-drawn font. Draw Your Own Alphabets is a fun, hands-on work­book that teaches how to cre­ate funky hand-lettered fonts sure to jump off the page, poster, or screen. Presenting thirty com­plete alpha­bets, custom-drawn in a vari­ety of styles by var­i­ous young design­ers and illus­tra­tors, this do-it-yourself guide demon­strates how to adapt the let­ters and make them your own. Whether you dip in and out of your favorite let­ter­ing styles, or work through the book prac­tic­ing var­i­ous alpha­bets, you’ll be cre­at­ing your own fonts in no time. A tech­ni­cal sec­tion shows how to put your hand-drawn cre­ations to prac­tice — from trans­fer­ring let­ters to a com­puter and using them online to mix­ing and match­ing dif­fer­ent alphabets.

Pick up a copy for your­self from Amazon.