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Re: Roman letters don't adhere to a nib angle do they?
Here's two videos of master calligrapher John Stevens throwing out a few Trajans with a flat brush. There's clearly a huge amount of nib rotation involved, but this is probably how the Roma…3 -
Re: Roman letters don't adhere to a nib angle do they?
@"Nick Shinn" George Thomas' letter excerpt was primarily what I was referring to. From an earlier letter from Morison to Updike:"Your note to FWG's latest (I say 'lates…2 -
Re: Roman letters don't adhere to a nib angle do they?
This also reminds me of Gerrit Noordzij’s “The Stroke”, in which he briefly mentions rotation as a stroke vector alongside expansion and translation. Thinking of it as such helps analyzing calligraph…2 -
Re: What are the great conceptual fonts?
BC Brief by Briefcase uses a maximum of 2 points per letter (some special characters have 3), and looks surprisingly good within that parameter. Wacky perhaps, but very clever.5 -
Border Ornaments and their implementation: questions & answers.
I'm working on a typeface to which I'd like to add ornamental border elements, as well as some other decorative glyphs. In researching the best way to do so, I came across this thread, whic…2
