Monogram Styles
The entire purpose of using a monogram at your wedding, on your stationary or as part of your personal statement is to introduce a sense of style and elegance wherever the monogram appears. Because most monograms have almost a calligraphy look to them that is artistic and stylish, they elevate any event where they are featured or any surface where they come to rest. So when you decide its time a monogram became part of your life, picking the right style deserves some consideration.
It might be surprising to learn that there are literally hundreds of styles, fonts and formats you can use for your monogram. So when you decide to design a monogram that really represents you well, take some time and look at the wide variety of designs and fonts that you can pick from. One way to do that is to go to web sites where monograms are part of the product such as stationary sites or retailers that put monogram on what they sell to customize them. Wedding planners use monograms as do merchants that sell baby gifts and clothing.
Often these sites will have a part of their service to let you design a monogram. There you can play around with lots of fonts and styles and literally create your monogram and capture it into a digital image. From there you can take that image and use it on your stationary or show it to whoever you are employing to create your monogram to go on your shirts, your briefcase or your business cards. Once you have that design ready to go, it really will surprise you the huge number of ways you will want to use it.
When you envision your new monogram, the style that most often comes to mind is something regal, elegant and artistic that almost is a mixture of a logo and a clan sign from the old days in Scotland or Ireland. There two aspects of the monogram that will give it that distinctive style are the font and the background design. The background design might be a backdrop of a shield or a wood door or something like that to give that monogram a feel of royalty and strength. But you can just go with simple letters with no other adornment that a really good font.
Between your word processor which has lots of fonts already in it and the internet, there are a huge assortment of resources you can turn to if you want to take some time and design your own monogram to get the style you want. Just creating monograms could become a new hobby as you find more and more fun ways to express yourself through that little emblem. Of course, there is no saying you have to keep yourself to just one monogram. You can create several to express different aspects of who you are including a serious monogram, an artistic one and a funny one. Its all up to you and how you want to use your monogram to dress up your wardrobe, your home or your letters. So have fun with it.