League of Letters
Have you ever been in a room full of designers cheering for the letter H???
Come watch creatives battle in head to head hand-lettering challenges and find out who has what it takes to win in this fast-paced typography tournament. Who will be our first lettering legend?
One night only! Will the watercolour serif beat the pen and ink calligraphy? Will the paint marker graffiti survive against ornate charcoal blackletter? How do you draw an uppercase I that looks good??? You have to be there to find out!
What to expect
All tickets get you entry to the event and include a free drink ticket. Doors open at 6pm and the tournament begins at 6:30pm. Bring your friends or make new ones! You'll be surrounded by design, typography, and lettering lovers, and we'll have lettering activities for you to enjoy between rounds. We expect the tournament to wrap up around 10pm and we can celebrate the winners until 11pm.
What is League of Letters?
League of Letters is a knockout lettering tournament where designers, letterers, calligraphers, and type aficionados of all kinds compete to win. We start with 16 players competing in head to head lettering challenges. One by one, players are eliminated until we have our lettering champion!
LofL is a celebration of the skill of hand-lettering in all styles. As modern designers and artists we have every digital resource and tool we could want at our fingertips. But for hundreds of years artists developed typefaces and lettering styles by hand to layer on emotion and meaning to text that was drawn, printed, and carved.
This tournament was created to bring us back to our foundations, work with analog tools again, and remind each other what we're capable of away from the screen. And give out cool prizes!
How the game works
Each game, a random letter is chosen. Two players have to draw their best version of that letter - quickly! Round one is 4 minutes long, and the rounds get shorter and shorter as we go. By the final round players only have 1 minute to prove themselves!
This tournament tests your lettering skills, your design instincts, and how quickly you can get your ideas on paper.
League of Letters is analog only: no computers, no tablets, and definitely no AI. Players can bring their favourite pens, markers, brushes, pencils, crayons, or whatever you use to make your letters better, in any style. Choose your weapons wisely!
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