Calligraphy Made EasyIllustrates basic hand lettering techniques and presents four sample alphabets. Also reviews pens, paper, and other equipment. |
Contents
The Art of Beautiful Writing | 4 |
The Scribes Environment | 18 |
Spacing and Guidelines | 34 |
Copyright | |
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arch artistic ascenders and descenders barb baseline basic birds bottom broad pen calligraphy character chisel edge color correct crescent crossbar cursive curves descender line dip pens downward ends examples final stroke flag flourishes forms fountain pen golden rectangle guidelines hand and pen horizontal stroke ice-skate stroke inverted bird's head Italic alphabet Italic hand Italic minuscule alphabet Italic writing join left-handed scribes legible ligatures line of writing look loop lower right majuscules margins nib angle ornaments pen angle pen lifts pen nib pen width picket fence picket pattern Platignum proportion Remember Roman alphabet Roman capitals Roman numerals Rule of Letters rung scoop second stroke serifs shape Sheaffer shown skeleton slab serifs slant slightly slip sheet sloping small letters snowplow stroke space spike spine squeegee stroke straight style thick thin versions vertical stroke waistline weight writing paper writing surface