Calligraphy
Facts, tips and ideas about Calligraphy — and how to find people for it.
Did you know?
Carolingian minuscule — a script standardized under Charlemagne around 800 — is the basis of almost all Latin scripts used today. Even this text reads the way it reads because of a reform 1,200 years ago.
Source: Wikipedia
Tip
Practice the movement, not the letter. Calligraphy is motion in the hand, not a picture on the paper — once the gesture sits right, every letter comes out clean.
The trick that makes any ballpoint look like calligraphy — learned in five minutes.
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