Petra-D Lettering Kit

This is the Lettering Kit that Petra Dočekalová uses as she teaches professionals hand lettering. With the right tools and teacher, you too can make everything feel like a 1980s middle America Grocery Store!  Learn how to write fast to get great scripts that you can use in your design practice.

The kit includes:

• A set of 6 writing tools produced in collaboration with Petra-D, Centropen, and Papelote: Petra-D x Papelote. Includes a chisel marker, felt marker, point marker, highlighter, invisible white pencil, and pencil with eraser tip. This set of writing tools is also sold separately.
• 12-page Lettering Guide
• 12 Guided Practice Sheets: 3 each of (1) Italic written with a flat marker, (2) Monolinear script, (3) Narrow script written with a flat marker, (4) Casual handwritten script
• A paperboard portfolio
• A patented 6-tool band to hold the kit securely

From the Czech Republic

Petra Dočekalová is the Director of Quality at BriefcaseType. Petra finished her PhD studies on Fostering Increased Appreciation for Handwriting, Penmanship, and a Personal Handwriting Style at the Type Design and Typography studio at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague in 2020. Since 2013 she has been a member of the Briefcase Type Foundry. She is focused on editorial work such as the Typo 9010 book. TYPO9010 book won several global awards and Jaroslav Benda 1882–1970 (its English Edition had a successful Kickstarter campaign in 2020. She is also a letterer, type designer, sign painter, and lettering artist, working on new digital scripts. Petra received the TDC Award of Excellence for her diploma project dealing with Czechoslovak calligraphy and new hand lettering forms.