calligraphy

Discussion List

• Much of Thompson’s “The Script Letter” is nearly copied from a book that came 100 years before

  274 views 2 comments 3 points Most recent by PabloImpallari January 15Technique and Theory
• “Drawn to Letters: a Dutch approach”—workshop with Elmo van Slingerland

  277 views 0 comments 1 point Started by Phan November 2022 Events
• Year-long lecture series on “The Age of the Writing Master and the Origins of English Roundhand”

  275 views 3 comments 3 points Most recent by Phan January 2022Events
• Looking for information on calligraphic philosophy

  191 views 5 comments 1 point Most recent by Hrant Հրանդ Փափազեան Papazian June 2021Education
• Single-descender Cyrillic de

  445 views 10 comments 1 point Most recent by Igor Petrovic December 2020Technique and Theory
• Roman letters don't adhere to a nib angle do they?

  371 views 15 comments 1 point Most recent by Nick Shinn December 2020Technique and Theory
• white space compensation or other reasons in N, M, W etc.

  664 views 16 comments 0 points Most recent by Chris Lozos May 2020Technique and Theory
• New logo

  592 views 21 comments 0 points Most recent by Joel Santos April 2020Type Design Critiques
• w_r ligature in script font

  636 views 30 comments 0 points Most recent by Nick Cooke January 2020Type Design Critiques
• Source for Gerrit Noordzij drawing?

  918 views 5 comments 0 points Most recent by Thomas Phinney September 2019Technique and Theory
• Question: Why are foot serifs cupped?

  1.5K views 24 comments 1 point Most recent by Hrant Հրանդ Փափազեան Papazian August 2019Technique and Theory
• Calligraphic lettering critique

  974 views 14 comments 2 points Most recent by Hrant Հրանդ Փափազեան Papazian May 2019Lettering Critiques
• Definition of penmanship

  446 views 9 comments 0 points Most recent by Michael Clark May 2019Technique and Theory
• Calligraphic Stencil Typeface

  351 views 6 comments 1 point Most recent by Scott Biersack October 2018Type Design Critiques
• Changing outline ttf. font to single stroke (engraving) font.

  4.4K views 10 comments 0 points Most recent by Paul Miller September 2018Font Technology
• Error on overlapping strokes for a script font

  531 views 4 comments 0 points Most recent by Kent Lew June 2018Type Design Software
• German typeface designer Helmut Matheis turns 100

  323 views 4 comments 16 points Most recent by Vasil Stanev November 2017Miscellaneous News
• Modular scripts project: looking for information about writing instruction

  61 views 0 comments 3 points Started by Maurice Meilleur November 2017 History of Typography
• Mezalia - modern bastard

  561 views 7 comments 2 points Most recent by Piotr Lukaszkiewicz October 2017Type Design Critiques
• Letterink – Stroke extension for Glyphs

  681 views 6 comments 6 points Most recent by Filip Paldia September 2017Type Design Software
• There's two variants of old cursive/script lowercase d – rules on usage?

  906 views 6 comments 0 points Most recent by Nick Shinn June 2017History of Typography
• How skeleton based type design could shake up digital type design workflows

  3.1K views 70 comments 1 point Most recent by Russell McGorman October 2016Type Design Software
• The ABC of Custom Lettering by Ivan Castro.

  203 views 2 comments 4 points Most recent by Yak El-Droubie March 2016Miscellaneous News
• Seb Lester's doodles, calligraphy or lettering?

  652 views 26 comments 1 point Most recent by Chris Lozos March 2016Technique and Theory
• Analog letter making tools

  801 views 14 comments 0 points Most recent by Wes Adams February 2016Technique and Theory
• Student Critique - Display Face

  391 views 9 comments 0 points Most recent by Johannes Neumeier December 2015Type Design Critiques
• Pointed Pen Calligraphy Guides

  3.8K views 34 comments 2 points Most recent by John Hudson March 2015Technique and Theory
• Book Cover Lettering

  791 views 13 comments 0 points Most recent by Pascal Barry February 2015Lettering Critiques
• Make you own iron-gall ink

  181 views 1 comment 1 point Most recent by Peter Fraterdeus August 2014Technique and Theory
• Outstanding typographic Copperplate interpretations?

  171 views 12 comments 0 points Most recent by Nick Shinn October 2012History of Typography