Calligraphy Alphabets
There are more calligraphy alphabets not only Italic, Gothic and Copperplate.
Those three alphabets are the most popular and famous one that you can easily face with even in your general life.
And I would like to introduce more calligraphy alphabets to you guys.
- Roman rustic capitals
Rustic Capitals are a robust, dynamic calligraphy alphabet, good for titles when you want formality and impact without rigidity. They are basically a nib- or brush- written alternative version of the grand, stone-chiseled, square capitals you can still see all over Roman monuments.
Living in ancient Rome, you would have seen announcements, information or even rude messages written in Rustic Capitals on the wall of the city, in just the same way as advertising posters or graffiti today.
- Unical
Unocal's rounded form owes something to the Greek alphabet, and historically it's associated with the early Christian Church. It superficially resembles traditional Irish scripts (Irish/Insular Majuscule).
In one form or another, it was used in handwritten books for nearly a millennium. For much of that time, it was strictly a calligraphy alphabet (rather than a historical script) in that it was written out slowly and painstakingly to look as impressive as possible.
Unical is easy to read, with serene overtones, and lends itself to short poems, quotations, and titles.
In one form or another, it was used in handwritten books for nearly a millennium. For much of that time, it was strictly a calligraphy alphabet (rather than a historical script) in that it was written out slowly and painstakingly to look as impressive as possible.
Unical is easy to read, with serene overtones, and lends itself to short poems, quotations, and titles.
- Roundhand (Foundation hand)
Roundhand is a modern, twentieth-century calligraphy alphabet based on the scripts of the Italian Renaissance, which themselves were invented because Italian scholars had got heartily fed up of trying to read long texts written in tiny, cramped Gothic.
The great virtue of Roundhand is its simplicity.
It may seem like a humble virtue but it is not therefore to be disregarded. Any Roundhand lends itself to circumstances in which you want to communicate sincerely and with our pretension; poems by Robert Frost, instructions in case of zombie attack, children's alphabet posters, letters of advice to your younger self, diaries for publications, etc.
There are tons of other Calligraphy style that you can dig on it.
Hope you can find your own script!
It would have been nice, and certainly more professional, had you credited the alphabet examples you posted. They are the work of David Harris, from his book The Art of Calligraphy, published in 1995 by DK Publishing. He does beautiful work, and I can see why you wanted to share it, but it is not yours, and you seem to be taking credit for it.
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