lettering — VISUALOUNGE

Jordan Metcalf

Jordan Metcalf is a Cape Town designer, illustrator and artist working in type-focused design and lettering.

Sweet Botanicals is Patrick Chen's packaging project: five tins, hand-drawn lettering, Victorian florals and one colour per flavour.

Michael Spitz prints the numerals 0 to 9, each in a different cut, in orange and grey on cream, and sets LARGE COFFEE 12 & LITTLE on yellow.

burkhardthauke overlaps cyan, red and white shapes under black outlines, cutting large white letters apart so no word lands whole.

Marco Oggian's Quote(s) of the week: STAY TRUE stacked in black glyphs on white, and ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT YOU ARE SPECIAL in white on black.

James Lewis lettered this in white on kraft paper with a paint marker, and left the pen in shot — calligraphic flourish, honest medium.

Sean O'Connor's Waypoints keeps one cover template across issues: the title set large, a figure in a red hat on rock, a red band down the spine.