- Italic
Italic is a beautifully legible calligraphy alphabet, and has been taught for generations as the foundation of good cursive handwriting. This font is one of the most well known calligraphy font to public but it is not as simple as it looks like!
Nowadays, hand-written italic alphabets remain ever-popular for quotations, wedding invitations, art calligraphy and improving handwriting style.
As you can see, in this illustration, there are some what we can figure out italic calligraphy's trait.
- a distinctive 'lozenge' shape to the body of letters a, b, d, g etc
- elegant, narrow branching strokes forming the shoulders of letters such as b, h, m, n, p etc
- quite long ascenders and defenders
- usually a slight slant to the right, about 5 degrees
- a cursive, running quality and an upwards flick at the finish of many letters
- a contrast between heavier pressure on the downstrokes and much lighter pressure on the upstrokes
- some characteristic letter forms ex) a and g are plain and open; ascenders often have a slight flourish
Also, you can deal with this two version of italic fonts.
Tilt little bit and you will discover a new kind of calligraphy!
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