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Bold & Easy Patterns

Thick lines, big fields, nothing smaller than a marker tip.

  • Motifschunky doodle · open field · repeat motif · thick border
  • Line weightbold and easy
  • Available onbooks · digital · prints · apparel · home
Bold & Easy Patterns sample design 1 — line art on cream

The story

Where Bold & Easy Patterns comes from

This family exists for a specific reader: someone whose hands are not steady, or whose eyes are tired, or who is eight. Every line is at least four times the weight of our intricate families, every enclosed field is wide enough for an adult marker without bleeding into its neighbour, and there is no detail that needs a fine liner to reach. It is the hardest brief we draw to, because "simple" is not the same as "empty" — a bold design still has to be worth the twenty minutes someone spends colouring it. The test we use is whether the finished page still reads as a composition from across a room.

Samples

Four from this family

Bold & Easy Patterns sample design 1 — line art on cream
Bold & Easy Patterns sample design 2 — line art on cream
Bold & Easy Patterns sample design 3 — line art on cream
Bold & Easy Patterns sample design 4 — line art on cream

Everything it is on

4 products

In print

The books this family lives in

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Want this design on something we do not make yet?

Tell us the product and we will say honestly whether our partners can print it and whether the drawing survives at that size. Some of our families do not work on small items, and we would rather say so than sell you a blur.

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