Hand painted signs can add character and interest to your home, lending a sense of time or place to a space. They can look crisp and new or vintage and worn. When designing a sign, my goal is to create work that recaptures that authentic feel of an old sign. The careful and considered choices of typeface or hand-lettering style, letter spacing, size, shadows, decorative elements, colors, and the words chosen, all add to the authenticity and credibility of a sign. For this class I have designed the signs already, so we’ll be focusing on the painting of the signs.