Black ink flash sheet of two decorative alphabets in traditional-style lettering, one with solid black fills and one with outline letters, plus numerals and punctuation.

Alphabet and numerals lettering flash sheet

Lettering · Black and grey · Flash

A sheet of hand-drawn lettering designs showing an uppercase alphabet in two versions, with a decorative set using solid black fills and a plainer outlined set. Below them are numerals 0 to 9 and the question and exclamation marks, all drawn in black ink on a white background. The linework is clean and even, with ornate serifs and cross-hatched details, and the sheet uses no colour.

Lettering Traditional Alphabet Letter Numeral Punctuation Flash sheet

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The sign-painter's boy was sent up Haverlock House with a tin of black enamel, a brush, and a folded sheet of the old letters, because the council had decided the numbers on the stairwell walls should look as if someone had cut them by hand. He was thirteen and did not believe in hand-cut anything. The block had nine floors and a lift that only worked on Tuesdays, so he climbed, painting as he went.

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On the fourth landing an old woman stood at her door with a tea towel over one shoulder. Her name was Mrs Bell, and she asked him to paint it in the old way, with a dark shadow down one side of each stroke, the way her husband had lettered the sign over the Co-op forty years before. The boy said the letters on the paper had no shadow in them, only little flourishes at the ends. She said that was how a stranger's eye saw things, and a stranger's eye was no use on a wet wall. He shaded the B and the E and both Ls until they looked like a chisel had been at them, and she gave him a slice of seed cake for his trouble.

On the ninth floor he ran out of black. He sat on the top step with the brush across his knees and counted the doors. Nine floors, nine numbers, and a question mark he had been told to leave for the caretaker. Going down, he passed the fourth landing again and saw that Mrs Bell's name had dried sharp and dark in the stairwell light, the only word on the block that looked as if it had been there first. He went back up, dipped the brush, and painted the question mark where the lift doors met the wall, and left the exclamation mark bare, because nobody on Haverlock House had ever needed telling twice.