Practicing Italic #Calligraphy with the help of Calligraphy for Dummies. Tracing and copying technique is slow going but I feel like I’m getting the shape of the letters and working on muscle memory. Started with gel pen before moving on the #FountainPen.
I learnt a little walking cursive in Chinese calligraphy class, but I never got round to grass cursive. So I've been working with this 1958 Yale University Press book. It's hard but it's so much fun to get my pen to do these wild gyrations!
@yingtai I see! I’ve no idea cuz I’ve never learnt calligraphy beyond kaishu in school. It reminds me of how Arabic characters have very different forms depending on whether they appear at the beginning, middle or end of a word.
(And the calligraphy forms of words like 個 and 們 shows that simplified Chinese characters are often pretty rooted in “traditional” Chinese culture, despite what Taiwanese/HK ppl say.)
@rakyat indeed! This book has really helped me see the beauty of a lot of simplified forms I always thought were ugly. Turns out they look a lot better in cursive where they originated!
Update: Problem solved! It reads: Es freut mich, daß Sie bis heute schon so große Erfolge erringen konnten. So wünsche ich Ihnen auch für Ferneres recht große weitere Erfolge. Nachdem die jüdische Musik doch bald ganz eingedämmt ist, wird für unsere deutschen Künstler wieder eine bessere Zeit kommen.
@carinealders@historikerinnen@histodons I read your text snippet as "Es freut mich, daß Sie bis heute schon so große Erfolge erringen konnten und wünsche ich Ihnen auch für Ferneres noch große weitere Erfolge. Nachdem die jüdische Musik doch bald genug eingedämmt ist, wird auch für unsere deutschen Künstler wieder eine bessere Zeit kommen", even if the first sentence seems grammatically iffy (the word order is a bit uncommon, as if the writer perhaps rephrased the sentence during writing).
@paradoxmo I'm glad they're requiring cursive in CA schools. As it is right now, public schools aren't teaching it but private schools are, creating an accessible gap based on income.
The Frasher Foto Postcard Collection https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt6s2019xp/ hosts over 5,000 picture postcard views of California and the Southwest taken by Burton Frasher in the 1910s–1950s. Among the many shots of landscapes and people are street scenes, offering a time-travel tour of early 20th-century American signmaking.
@typographica This is really cool. The Hotel De Anza is still there, as is the tallish building with the spire in the distance on the right side of the street. All the old signage is gone though. :-(
A quality piece of pavement #lettering found in Larkspur, CA.
Think it's dilbert in #cursive#script, but could say Lilbert, but never heard that before
#FPQuestion of the day:
What texts do you enjoy writing when you have nothing in particular to write about? (Pangrams, lyrics, nonsense phrases, book excerpts etc.) #FountainPen#handwriting
@penfount like so many else, I find the physicality of it to be pleasurable. Also, find it's so much easier to brainstorm ideas on a page with arrows, boxes and ad hoc signs utilized to express my thoughts. No digital tool has come close to that. It really is a personal expression after all.
@penfount For me is a question of speed. When your life is something like an endless meeting, it's much faster to handwrite notes and it's much more easy to carry a notebook and a pen than a laptop. The added bonus is that it's easier to remember the things that you have written by hand. And then there is the nice sensation you get from writing with a pen that you can't get with a keyboard.
Eddie Bauer changed its logo because Gen Z doesn’t read cursive
After nearly 60 years of its distinctive cursive script, the outdoor retailer is ditching the script for blocky text and a goose. 🪿
“A big part of what I’m going to need to do here is reintroduce this great heritage brand to the next generation,” Bantle says. “And kids don’t even learn to read cursive in school anymore.”
#calligraphie#calligraphy#fountainpens
Diamine Starlit Sea, shimmering ink.
Stub 0.8 and rather soft (for a steel) nib can have problem with line thickness consistency. Shimmering parts can stuck between nib and paper and then reduce line thickness. I will try Speedball dip nib, however it is no less tricky to use, bc you need to shake ink very often😓
Cette semaine j'anime un atelier de Lettering Créatif avec Pyramid Formations à Paris. On est en train de se plonger dans le dessin de lettres, et je partage des astuces pour aider chacun·e à développer son propre style.
Si ça vous parle, n'hésitez pas à en parler autour de vous. Le prochain atelier pourrait être avec vous !
